Nurse Specialist

Join our team of dedicated healthcare professionals at My Florida Corp Defunct as a Registered Nurse Specialist. In this role, you will provide high-quality nursing care to residents of Sunland Center, ensuring their health, safety, and well-being.

• Provide direct nursing care functions as ordered/prescribed and in compliance with applicable policies.
• Assess and document assessment of all resident complaints, reported or recognized changes in condition.
• Ensure appropriate referrals to providers for residents requiring a higher level of care.
• Complete nursing portion of incident reports.
• Administer medications and treatments as ordered by the provider, adhering to established Policy/Procedure.
• Document administration on Medication Administration Record.
• Observe for effectiveness and adverse reactions of medications.
• Report medication variances and ensure appropriate evaluation and follow up of resident.
• Perform quality control protocols on medications received from pharmacy against physician orders to ensure accuracy.
• Review MARS when updated monthly for accuracy, corrects any discrepancies prior to administration of medication to residents.
• Write/compose documents in compliance with professional nursing standards, Sunland nursing policies and procedures and integrated services to provide a base of information to ensure quality resident care.
• Participate in appropriate audit/survey processes.
• Ensure/gives/receives reports of incidents, illness, and other relevant data pertaining to resident care with appropriate documentation, at beginning and end of shift to ensure continuity of resident care.
• Makes notations in the patient charts and communicates orders for diet, laboratory, x-ray studies and other medical treatments.
• Completes Active Treatment Plans, Support Plans, as assigned and within required time frames.
• For the assigned caseload monitors and tracks ordering and completion of required lab or other diagnostic test and ensures test are rescheduled when refused or missed, completion of ordered consults.
• Completes required assessments such as DISCUS, MOSES, Fall risk, BRADEN Scale.
• Utilizes Professional Nursing Standards and applicable Sunland Operating Procedures in the application of the nursing process including assessing residents needs/issues and environment; planning and coordinating care with residents' input; implementing Physician's orders and treatments; signing off physician orders, evaluating nursing care and resident outcome; Maintain a safe environment for the residents
• Maintains the security/safety and health of residents in accordance with APD/Unit protocols.
• Provides in-service training to staff in areas of identified risk for individual residents.
• Ensures medical areas are kept neat, clean, and orderly.
• Ensures that all medical supplies are checked weekly for expiration; Immunizations and Insulin's are discarded upon date of expiration; Ensures that Sunland Infection Control Policies/Procedures are followed as prescribed to manage infection and maintain the safety and wellbeing of residents and staff.

• Licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in accordance with Florida Statute 464 or eligible to practice nursing in accordance with Florida Administrative Code 210-8.27.
• Knowledge of nursing principles, practices and techniques.
• Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.
• Ability to provide emergency nursing services.
• Ability to participate in the planning and implementing of treatment for patients.
• Ability to conduct individual and group therapy sessions.
• Ability to work with patients having a variety of physical or emotional problems.
• Ability to observe patients' reactions to medications.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to effectively interview and assess the health care of clients.
• Ability to analyze complex reports and determine the service utilization habits of clients and to evaluate the appropriateness of that utilization.