Wellness Nurse

Location Type: Not Specified

 

Description

Nikkei Manor Assisted Living in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District is hiring a Wellness Nurse todeliver nursing care to residents in accordance with individual service plans to ensure residents’ safety and well-being.

What you bring:

• Strong drive for collaboration for a common goal
• Ability to relate to residents and staff of diverse backgrounds and cultures through food and humor
• Tactful diplomatic communication style, including in sensitive and emotional situations

What we offer:

• Stable schedule with 8 hour shifts
• Environment of growing and learning together
• Generous PTO
• Free parking

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Evaluate resident health status and follow through with appropriate treatment and or documentation.
• Provide residents’ medications and treatments that require administration by a licensed nurse.
• Monitor and maintain records reflecting residents’ physical and mental condition.
• Coordinate and oversee medication and treatment services, ensuring accurate and complete daily documentation with no gaps in records.
• Provide support and consultation to the Resident Assistants and Med Techs in problem-solving, service challenges, and resident health issues.
• Coordinate with Health Services Director for assessments of potential residents prior to move-in, residents returning from hospital or skilled nursing facility for appropriate care and perform ongoing assessments to determine the need for additional or modified services.
• Establish and maintain current knowledge of the requirements of regulatory agencies.
• Respond to emergency situations and administer first aid as needed.
• Assist HSD in resident incident reports and medication error reports to assess causes and preventative measures.
• Handle all forms of resident Protected Health Information (PHI) in a confidential, private and secure manner.
• Assist in instituting infectious illness outbreak-management with guidance from Health Services Director and Public Health

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position does not have direct supervisory responsibility, but provides shift supervision of Resident Assistants and Medication Technicians and serves as a delegate supervisor in the absence of the Health Services Director.

Requirements

Must satisfy all state health, licensure/certification, and background requirements.

Education/Experience: must be a licensed or registered nurse. 2-4 years of nursing experience, including at least one year of geriatric nursing is preferred

Relationship to the local Japanese American community preferred

Ability to read/speak/write Japanese preferred

Certificates and Licenses: Currently licensed or eligible for license as LPN/LVN or RN. CPR and First Aid certifications must be completed if not current, plus any additional licensing requirements in state(s) of practice, Food Handler Card.