RN RCC

• The RCC is responsible to maintain the nursing philosophy, objectives, and standards of quality nursing care; and ensure compliance with standards, codes, rules and regulations, and the policies set-forth by Mountainside.

Administrative functions:

• • • Notifies the Director of Nursing and Administrator on call as required.
    • Participates actively with IDT and follows-through on actions determined by the Team.
    • Is responsible for every resident in the facility.
    • Serves as a resident advocate and ensures resident rights are maintained.
    • Supports the medical staff.
    • Works collaboratively with all departments at Mountainside and MMH.
    • Works with staff in the planning of the unit’s services, programs, and activities.
    • Ensures consistency between both floors in nursing care.
    • Ensures staff comply with polices and standards of care.
    • Ensures completeness of Accident and Incident reports.
    • Promotes mission and values of Mountainside.
    • Serves as a leader and resource for nursing staff.
    • Participates in investigations as assigned.
    • Ensures safe quality care is provided to the resident’s daily, and essential information is communicated to provide appropriate continuity of care from admission to discharge.
    • Is a liaison with residents, families, and other departments to adequately plan for and provide resident care.
    • Guides RN Supervisors and LPN Nurse Managers responsibilities.
    • Ensures accurate, appropriate, and complete documentation by all nursing staff.

Care Plan, Kardex, MDS, and Assessment

• • • Ensures accuracy of each.
    • Completes timely as assigned.
    • Effectively communicates the plan of care.
    • Ensures that resident care plan is followed.

Communication:

• • • Uses communication to enhance quality of resident care and staff working environment.
    • Ensures appropriate and ongoing communication to the resident, family, staff, MD, IDT, etc.
    • Holds regularly scheduled staff meetings – on all shifts for CNA’s and LPN’s (forwarding written documentation to the DON).

Personnel/Staff Development

• • • Responsible for employee evaluations, employee praise, and discipline as necessary.
    • Promotes an environment of learning.
    • Actively participates with staff education.
    • Ensures staff attends mandatory in services and meets minimum continuing education requirements.
    • Conducts routine staff audits to ensure care is being delivered per care plan and medical staff orders.
    • Ensures work consistency among staff.
    • Promotes a positive, friendly work environment.

Equipment and Supplies:

• • • Ensures appropriate are available and monitors that supplies are utilized appropriately to avoid waste.
    • Is cost-effective.
    • Works with DON to obtain supplies or equipment not stocked.

Policy and Procedure Manuals:

• • • Ensures nursing manual is kept up to date and reflects current nursing practices.
    • Ensures other manuals are available and up to date for staff (e.g. MSDS, emergency protocols).

Quality Assurance:

• • • Constantly strives to enhance the resident and staff experience.
    • Reports quality indicators at committee meetings. Based on findings, implements actions for areas needing improvement.
    • Determines quality indicator monitors.
    • Reports and completes necessary paperwork for each resident incident/accident/change in condition.

Safety/Infection Control:

• • • Ensures staff compliance with standards and regulations.
    • Reports potential outbreaks and takes appropriate measures to control/eliminate infection control exposures.

Staffing Coverage

• • • Required to ensure appropriate coverage for the nursing department 24/7, including weekends, holidays, and off-shifts.
    • Is RN on-call when there is not an RN in-house.
    • Works a variety of hours to monitor care of residents on off shifts.
    • Is available to staff on all shifts to ensure 24/7 continuity of care.
    • Works beyond normal working hours, or in other positions temporarily when necessary (e.g. administers medications).
    • Is subject to callback during emergency conditions.

Other specific requirements:

• • • Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and be enthusiastic.
    • Must work harmoniously with others.
    • Seeks out new methods and principles to incorporate into the nursing practice.
    • Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment.
    • Able to make independent decisions and is self-motivated.
    • Able to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures necessary to provide quality care.
    • Promotes teamwork and collaboration among Mountainside staff members.

Ongoing education

• • • Must continually strive to enhance knowledge, and ensure evidenced-based nursing is being practiced.
    • Must attend an out-of-facility continuing education seminar at least annually to maintain RCC position (approved by DON).

Other job duties as assigned.

• Education:
  • Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing as a RN
• Experience:
  • 1-year supervisory experience, 2 years clinical experience, acute care experience preferred
• Training/License:
  • NYS RN License
• Other:
  • BLS, basic computer skills