LPN Unit Manager

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NEW YEAR, NEW OPPORTUNITIES!

After restructuring our Clinical Leadership roles, The Davis Community is excited to offer experienced nurse candidates new opportunities to join our team!

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*$5,000 Sign On Bonus*

INTRODUCTION

The Davis Community is a vibrant senior living neighborhood and has been a proud corporate citizen of Wilmington, NC for over 60 years. Established as a skilled nursing facility in the early 1960s, Davis quickly became the premier healthcare center for senior care, and while they have grown and evolved, adding to services offered, we continue to be highly regarded in the region as a community that emphasizes compassion, care, and show of respect and dignity for residents.

COMMUNITY CULTURE

At The Davis Community, deliberate and diligent efforts are made to emphasize and focus on an underlying culture of respect and service that can be seen and felt by all. Employees, residents, and guests of the community are treated with respect and personalized care to the best of the organization’s ability. The desire to continue to elevate all aspects of services is preeminent so that Davis can provide an empowering and caring retirement atmosphere filled with friends, enjoyment, and a fulfilling sense of community. Our Leading advantages include:

• State-of-the-art Facilities
• On-demand Pay
• Benefits begin after 30 days
• Low-cost lunches
• Free Membership to our gym and indoor pool
• Shift differential
• Work-life Balance
• Growth
• Competitive Wages

We spend about 2,000 hours per year at work. Why not make that time matter? For us, ‘work that matters’ is less about what you do, and more about how you do it.

The Davis Community requires that all current and new employees, including contract staff, receive an annual influenza vaccination and TB skin test unless a reasonable or disability accommodation is granted.

The LPN Unit Manager provides clinical coordination, mentoring and quality assurance ensuring the mission, vision and values of the organization are supported through clinical services. This Nurse Mentor participates in collaboration and coordination of planning, organizing, and facilitating clinical operations of the neighborhood under the direction of the DON to ensure regulatory compliance, nurture a person-centered and resident directed culture.

MAJOR WORK ACTIVITIES:

1. Assures all clinical policies and procedures of the household are maintained. Interprets and communicates same to all in the household as needed, with emphasis on resident, family or designated representative relationships.

2. Participates in tandem with RN mentors assuring the hiring, orientation, training and evaluation of the household is adequate to support quality outcomes in specific areas of clinical accountability.

3. Assuring regulatory compliance by encouraging appropriate record keeping and charting. Maintaining appropriate files in compliance in specific areas of clinical accountability.

4. Ensuring the household participates in Quality Improvement measurements that will surface questions and issues to address and that appropriate follow up is taken to assure quality outcomes, performing professional audits and observations to confirm the competency of all household staff.

5. Guides the implementation of clinical policies and procedures which ensure safe, sanitary and efficient practices supporting professional nursing care standard; assures documentation, medication administration, resident nursing care, safety/sanitation, RAI process or other areas as needed.

6. Skin care management to include assessment of skin integrity, circulation and activity level. Record/Report results as appropriate.

7. Develop treatment plan in accordance to HCC nursing service adopted standards of protocol, and in collaboration with physicians and other responsible disciplines as appropriate.

8. Coordinates/participates in primary nurses’ implementation of residents’ individual plan of care to include treatments developed by the RN.

9. Provides oversight to various QI systems to include but not limited to, falls, events, observations, weights, therapies, restorative initiatives, behavior logs, pharmacy support, lab retrieval and monitoring.

10. Demonstrates through knowledge and practice, principals of infection control and universal precautions.

11. Supports and participates in new admissions processing/auditing and general medical clerking. Supports staff by comprehensive study of incoming admission documentation, medication reconciliation and creating E-Health chart.

12. Collaborates with pharmacy/MDs (both Attending and outside community Provider) therapy, and other disciplines as appropriate to foster partnerships and promote overall resident well being.

13. Develops rapport with residents and families to decrease anxieties and foster bonds.

14. Participates/collaborates with RN in development and implementation of individual care plan and ensures team acknowledgement/adherence. Adjusts/revises as necessary in tandem with RN to ensure “Person Centered Care”.

15. Participates/collaborates with RN regarding implementation of established education plan to resident/patient. Communicates to team to ensure reinforced.

16. Conducts resident rounds daily and encourages collaborative approach of nursing continuum.

17. Attend care plan meetings as needed. Attended Medicare stand-up meetings as needed and coordinate with team to clarify and verify RUG’s.

18. Participate in various quality improvement sub-committees and activities to include Quality of Care (Falls, Skin, and weight variance) and infection control, or others as delegated by DON.

19. Assists with proper completion and investigation of incident, injury, medication errors and/or medication discrepancy reports regarding reporting, recording and data gathering.

20. Respond to emergency call as needed.

21. Ensure “on-call” protocols and other responsibilities, which may become necessary or as assigned.

22. Guides the clinical component of continuous quality improvement in the household in support of a systemic approach to quality clinical care.

23. Guides household clinical staff to support organizational fiscal responsibility through efficient and effective use of all resources (LEAN METHODOLOGY/PAR LEVELS) in the household and maintain staffing patterns consistent with the philosophy, objectives and available resources.

24. Inform DON of major changes or concerns.

25. Support management/administration during periods of transition/change or stress.

26. Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Director of Nursing.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

· Good geriatric health assessment skills (physical, mental and developmental staging).

· Good planning, initiation, delivery and evaluation skills with regard to nursing care.

· Ability to mentor, and provide oversight to other personnel in the delivery of care.

· Knowledge of documentation requirements related to timeliness, accuracy and completeness.

· Working knowledge of State and Federal regulations.

· Works in a well lighted, temperature-controlled office area as they apply to the LTC setting.

· Ability to perform physical exertion at least 50% of the time (standing, stooping, kneeling, bending)

· Ability to perform intermittent lifting, pushing (wheelchairs, carts and equipment) and carrying objects weighing between 30-40 pounds.

· Moderate exposure to infectious diseases.

· Good communication skills both verbal and written with ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality.

· Posses good organizational ability and strong interpersonal skills

· Physical job demands may be subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent with graduation from an accredited school of nursing.

Licensure/ Certification: Current North Carolina licensure as Licensed Practical Nurse.

Experience: Two years previous long-term care nursing experience preferred.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.