Bethesda Brings out the Best in Talented, Caring People!

At Bethesda, more than 1,200 employees dedicate their careers to improving the lives of others.

As a team member at Bethesda, you'll enjoy great benefits such as: 403b, daily pay, bonuses, career advancement opportunities, and holiday pay.

Medical, dental, vision, prescription, and life insurance available for regular status full and part time employees.

Summary

• Assigns staff according to policies and works to ensure equal distribution of assigned duties.
• Supports teamwork and works to encourage staff to provide resident care properly and in an acceptable time frame.
• Completes rounds to assess residents and resident care.
• Reports concerns and needs to appropriate staff members in a professional and timely manner.
• Receives report from assigned charge nurses in a timely manner and completes a shift report for the Director of Nursing.
• Communicates with Director of Nursing areas of concern of any events requiring administrative attention in a timely manner.
• Appropriately manages staff and disciplines staff members as necessary.
• Empower staff members by promoting responsibility, accountability, and autonomy to enhance resident care.
• Ensures standards of patient care are utilized and delegates responsibilities as defined by policy or necessity to ensure appropriate resident care.
• Develops measurable staff goals and encourages staff to maintain professionalism within the workplace at all times.
• Serves as a resource for other nursing personnel and seeks assistance or guidance in areas of uncertainty.
• Directs and manages direct patient care by using sound nursing judgment at all times.
• Document and communicates plans appropriately and professionally.
• From resident assessment, reviews and revises the care plan needs, problems and goal changes with the Charge Nurses.
• Identifies necessary and appropriate nursing interventions pertinent to the plan of care.
• Implements and documents all resident/family teaching relevant to health care needs and ensures understanding of the teaching.
• Demonstrates clinical competence to assess the physical, spiritual, psychological and emotional needs of each resident.
• Works with Charge Nurses to maintain their clinical competencies and intervenes appropriately requesting physician or other department intervention as appropriate.
• Maintains working knowledge of emergency procedures and demonstrates awareness of safety issues.
• Completes monthly QAPI, and monitors pharmacy recommendations monthly.
• May be assigned other duties as appropriate.