Travel Nurse RN - Transitional Care Unit
Miles City, MT
Integrated Healthcare Services
3x12 hrs, Days

RN - Extended Care

Location: Miles City, Montana
Employment Type: Staffing - Supplier Sourced
Contract Length: 13 weeks

Job Summary

• Provide holistic nursing care focusing on the individual’s role within their family, culture, and society.
• Utilize the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Advocate for residents by ensuring they and/or their representatives have adequate information for health decisions.
• Coordinate total care to help residents achieve or maintain their highest practicable level of function.
• Maintain quality of resident care according to legal and professional standards.
• Serve as a role model to other healthcare team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Complete age-specific admission history, physical assessments, and nursing care plans for assigned residents.
• Analyze clinical data (labs, x-rays, diagnostics) to develop individualized care plans.
• Identify and document residents at risk for nutritional and functional decline.
• Recognize and report signs of neglect or abuse (child, domestic, elder).
• Set priorities and review daily care plans in collaboration with residents, families, and healthcare team.
• Delegate tasks to team members based on resident needs and staff competencies.
• Communicate with physicians to coordinate medical and nursing care plans.
• Perform technical nursing skills competently.
• Manage urgent and emergent resident care situations proactively.
• Administer medications and IVs per scope of practice and policy.
• Document nursing interventions, resident responses, and outcomes.
• Evaluate and revise care plans based on resident progress and changing needs.
• Provide education to residents and families based on assessed learning needs.
• Coordinate discharge planning and related documentation.
• Maintain knowledge of CMS regulations, Medicare skilled care, and MDS criteria to ensure compliant documentation.
• Incorporate resident preferences into care delivery and delegate tasks appropriately.
• Supervise, coach, counsel, and evaluate assigned CNA staff.

Required Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) license appropriate for Montana.
• Ability to read and write at a level sufficient for documentation requirements.
• Physical ability to perform job duties including standing, walking, sitting, pushing, pulling, lifting, carrying, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, filing, typing, talking, hearing, and color vision.
• Capable of lifting objects over 100 lbs., with frequent lifting/carrying up to 50 lbs.

Preferred Qualifications

• None specified.

Additional Information

• This position requires active participation in fulfilling the mission, vision, and values of the employer.
• Demonstration of behavior consistent with core values and support of quality improvement processes is expected.

Note: Prior travel experience is not specified as a requirement.