JOB SUMMARY [[Under the direction of the SDS Program Director, the Registered Nurse oversees customer care needs providing oversight, training, guidance and support to customer direct support teams. Part-time position working an average of approximately 10 hours per week. This position has flexible hours. Services provided are individualized, customer guided and support independence, community belonging, and quality of life for seniors, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. All Community Connections employees are expected to contribute to the professional reputation of the agency through understanding and promoting the organizations mission and core values in all aspects of services.

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• Provide general nursing oversight and support to the department to ensure customers receive quality care;
• Conduct customer nursing assessments in-person with customers at least every 90 days;
• Perform Case Management to ensure customers are getting the medical care they need;
• Remain in contact with customers as frequently as is appropriate to the medical condition of the customer and the complexity of the care to be delivered;
• Assesses customers medical condition to determine if a nursing duty may be safely delegated to a direct support staff;
• Delegate routine nursing duties to trained direct support staff; such as, medication administration (including oral, g-tube, topical, transdermal, nasal, inhalation, optic, vaginal, or rectal), taking and recording vital signs, checking and recording blood glucose levels, and catheter care, monitoring bodily functions, measuring and recording fluid and food intake and output, simple wound care and personal care;
• Ensure completion of medication administration training approved by the board of nursing for all direct support staff who assist customers with medication administration;
• Establish nursing orders to ensure customers are getting the care they need;
• Oversee, train, document and track all delegated nursing duties performed by assistive personnel;
• Develop nursing plans that supports customers health and safety and addresses medical care tasks that the recipient or their paid and unpaid caregivers can perform;
• Remain available to direct service staff for consultation as customer condition changes;
• Communicate with frontline supervisors and customer support teams to ensure continuity of care;
• Participate in customer team meetings and Person-Centered Planning meetings;
• Support regulatory compliance for Nurse Delegation and Nursing Oversight and Care Management services;
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation processing by self and staff that meet documentation requirements. Completes quality assurance reviews of medication documentation;
• Provide direct service to customers as needed.

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Knowledge and skill of the principles and practices of nursing, behavior, and needs of patients;

Ability to observe and evaluate reactions and changes in the physical behavioral and mental condition of patients;

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