Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg
Prestige Care, Inc
Salem, OR

Community Registered Nurse

Information About Prestige Senior Living - Southern Hills Located at 4795 Skyline Road South in Salem, Oregon, Prestige Senior Living - Southern Hills has 66 apartments of all assisted living care. Southern Hills is a clean, vibrant community of healthcare providers and residents. We offer a highly impactful work environment where you can collaborate with other team members to offer the best in care for our residents. If getting to know those you serve is important to you, you get that in spades with us! We offer a strong promote-from-within culture, a home-like work environment, a robust and comprehensive medical/dental/vision/EAP benefits package, lots of different career options, and more. Southern Hills has a award-winning legacy both on the local, state, but also national scale. It is a former "Bronze" award winner through the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living in recent years. Additionally, in 2019, we were designated the "Best Of" award in the Mid-Willamette Valley through the Statesman Journal! If working in a home-like setting, with a strong team atmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer that has a great promote-from-within culture, then Southern Hills is the place for you. Who Is Prestige Care/Prestige Senior Living? Prestige Care is a family of over 75 skilled nursing + post-acute care centers, as well as assisted living and memory care communities in 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members who serve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personally touching their lives every day. We have four core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect that guide everything that we do. With a strong commitment to career development and advancement, Prestige Care is a employer that can help you achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career at Prestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment where your work truly matters at the end of every day. POSITION SUMMARY The Community Registered Nurse partners with Health Services leadership to oversee the clinical aspects of the health services department for assigned community and ensures that resident care needs are met by completing assessments, coordinating resident care, managing health services systems, and delegating nursing tasks. Promotes a positive physical and psychosocial environment for the residents. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Creates a resident-centered approach to the planning and delivery of services to residents, supporting residents' rights to participate in decision-making and treating residents with dignity and respect. * Performs assessments on health, functional and psychosocial status of residents. Participates in the development of individualized service plans. Proactively manages care and services for each resident, maximizing the resident's opportunity to remain in the assisted living environment. Problem-solves as part of the management team to case manage and meet the needs of residents. * Assesses or evaluates residents with reported changes of condition. Provides direction, service planning, and coordination of care to meet the residents' changing needs. * Collaborates with the management team on the move in of prospective residents, taking into consideration the needs of the prospective resident, current community acuity, and staffing levels. Provides in-person pre-move in assessments, if necessary. * Ensures that resident care needs are met by coordinating services with other professionals, including physicians, discharge planners, nurses, home health agency staff, case managers, hospice, and state agency personnel. Oversees the arrangement of ancillary services such as pharmacy, podiatry, lab, and x-ray as needed. * Delegates nursing tasks as allowed under applicable state nursing laws and practice acts, communicating regularly with residents, their families, and their health care practitioners. * Oversees the documentation and communication of resident care and services. Assists the leadership team to ensure resident records are completed in a timely manner and maintained according to company policies and state regulations. * Maintains and oversees medication services including staff training, staff oversight, pharmacy coordination, medication room, and medication systems. * Partners in the investigation and root cause analysis of incidents. Collaborates with the management team on the development and implementation of appropriate interventions. * Assists in the management of Infection Control. Assists with providing training to staff on infection control practices, investigates, and reports incidents of infection and tracks infection data. * Provides on-call support and phone triage for team members' questions regarding resident concerns. * Participates in leadership team by actively contributing in decision making, incident follow up, building and company-wide initiatives and attending leadership team meetings such as daily stand up, Systems Monitoring and Resident Tracking (SMART), Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI), and other meetings as required. * Acts as an ambassador of Prestige by representing communities in a positive manner to outside agencies and participating in community events and social functions. * Maintains up-to-date knowledge of all rules, regulations and policies pertaining to resident care. Responsible to stay informed of industry and health care trends and standards, applying new knowledge to meet the changing needs of residents. Seeks out additional expertise and advice when needed to assure residents' needs are met and proper practices followed. * Performs other duties as assigned. COMPANY WIDE RESPONSIBILITIES * Demonstrates Core Values of Respect, Integrity, Commitment, and Trust. * Supports a dignified and caring atmosphere with residents, residents' families, visitors, and staff. * Protects privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to residents, team members, the department/center/community, and company information and records. * Maintains a safe and secure working environment and practices safe working habits. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE Must have current, unencumbered RN license in the state of practice. Delegation experience in the state assigned preferred. Experience in geriatric nursing, medication administration, case management, and training and staff development preferred. EDUCATION Registered Nurse license with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Associate Degree in Nursing, may also be a diploma RN. EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED - At Prestige, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different. Prestige is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.