Job Description: Registered Nurse

Essential Purpose of the Position

The Registered Nurse provides the mandated services that, per Wisconsin statute, must be conducted by a Registered Nurse in an RCAC and/or CBRF. This is a part time or full time, hourly position. 

Reports to: Director or Manager

Essential Job Functions:

• Coordinate with Facility Manager/RA Coordinator to conduct RN Delegation for Liberty Village non-licensed employees in concordance with DHS 83.37(2)(e), DHS 89.13(24), DHS 89.23(4)(a)(2) and N6.03(3).

• Coordinate with Community Nurse, Medication Care Manager and/or Manager to conduct quarterly reviews of psychotropic medication for CBRF residents in concordance with DHS 83.37(1)(h)(1).

• Coordinate with Community Nurse to sign off on medication errors in concordance with DHS 83.37(1)(k)(2).

• Serve as a consultation resource for Liberty Village’s Community Nurse, Manager and/or Director. 

• Field on-call nurse questions from Managers during the absence of the Community Nurse. 

Experience and/or Training:

1. Registered Nurse in the State of Wisconsin (up to date on license registry)

2. Two years nursing experience required. Experience working with advanced age, Alzheimer’s, dementia and/or assisted living populations preferred. 

Physical/Mental Requirements:

• Pushing and pulling activities as required to move wheelchairs, geri-chairs, and bath chairs occupied by residents weighing 80-250 pounds on a frequent basis. 

• Medium to heavy lifting up to 50 pounds while lifting, positioning and transferring residents. Lift/carry light objects such as resident’s linen, resident care items and appliances, ranging from less than 10 to 25 pounds without assistance. 

• Consistent simple manipulative skills as required to maneuver wheelchairs through doorways, move laundry carts, etc. 

• Frequent stooping, kneeling, and crouching as required in resident care activities such as assisting with shoes, stocking, and prosthetic devices, maintaining and adjusting equipment, etc. 

• Continuous handling, fingering, and feeling as required for activities, operating and maintaining equipment, providing medical treatments for abnormal conditions, wound care and dispensing medications. 

• Standing or walking up to 90% of an eight-hour day to provide resident assistance.

• Reaching overhead as required to obtain medication, linen, stock from shelves ranging from floor to 6’ and to remove/replace resident items on closet shelves.

• A sense of balance as required to safely ambulate/transfer resident from one area to another such as chair to bed, toilet to chair.

• Ability to wear gloves and other protective equipment.

• Continuous clear speech, reading, and hearing skills as required to comprehend and communicate with residents and co-workers, to follow written plans of care and to respond to emergency alarms.

• Ability to concentrate on acute detail with frequent interruption.

• Attentions pan necessary to attend to a task/function for up to 30 minutes uninterrupted minutes related to duties. 

• Ability to comprehend oral and written instruction.

• Ability to comprehend direction and specific ideas behind actions.

• Ability to comprehend in-service materials and principles as required to understand and apply in practice. 

• Ability to remember, or create reminders, to track tasks or assignments ranging from a few hours to long periods of time.

Environmental Conditions:

• Occasional exposure to hazardous chemicals such as disinfectants, cleansers, soap, etc. as identified by department’s MSDS manual. 

• Frequent exposure to latex, plastic, and/or other such materials, which are used for personal protective equipment. 

• Occasional exposure to bodily injuries due to unpredictable behaviors of residents. 

• Occasional exposure to loud and unpleasant noises due to unpredictable behaviors of residents.

• Exposure to blood and body fluids while providing care to residents. 

• Frequent exposure to unpleasant odors as related to care of incontinent residents. 

Other Qualifications/Responsibilities:

• Maintains and safeguards entrusted confidential information.

• Follows all HIPPA guidelines.

• Must possess leadership qualities.

• Ability to communicate effectively with residents, families, and coworkers.

• Ability to communicate with Inlcusa teams and other healthcare personnel involved with tenant/resident care.

• Ability to meet assigned deadlines.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.

• Ability to organize, direct and evaluate the work of other personnel.

• Ability to function independently in situations that required professional nursing judgement. 

• Ability to understand, support and implement facility and organizational policies/procedure, along with government regulations such as Wisconsin Statute Chapters 50, N6, DHS 89 and DSH 83 and all pertinent DHS, DQA and DOH memos regarding nursing services.