Registered Nurse/PRN _ Skilled Unit

The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) is currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of Registered Nurse/PRN on the Skilled Unit at Georgia Regional Hospital - Atlanta, located in Decatur, GA. The Skilled Nursing Facility serves individuals who are profound to severely developmentally disabled and in need of a skilled nursing level of care.

Salary Range - $44.00 - $54.00 based on experience

This is an hourly, part-time position with no benefits.

Job Description:

·       Assess client health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records

·       Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled clients

·       May advise clients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management.

Job Responsibilities & Performance Standards:

·       Administers prescribed medications or starts intravenous fluids, and notes times and amounts on clients' charts

·       Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate client care plans

·       Maintains accurate, detailed reports and client records

·       Modifies client treatment plans as indicated by clients' responses and conditions

·       Monitors all aspects of client care, including diet and physical activity

·       Monitors, records and reports symptoms and changes in clients' conditions

·       Observes nurses and visits clients to ensure that proper nursing care is provided

·       Prepares clients for, and assists with, examinations and treatments

·       Prepares rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies, and ensures that stock of supplies is maintained

·       Provides education to client and family

·       Provides health care, first aid, immunizations and assistance in convalescence and rehabilitation.

Technical Competencies:

·       Ability to assess, plan for, and provide basic nursing skills; knows procedures including developing, implementing and revising plan of care

·       Knowledge of nursing policies, procedures, protocols, treatments, standards of care and nurse practice act

·       Knowledge of the procedures for medication administration and can administer oral, sublingual and IV medications; knowledge of pharmacology

·       Knowledge of immunization regulations and protocols

·       Ability to perform CPR and for some sites, AED.