RN Extended Care
Miles City, MT
Host Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Opportunity: Registered Nurse - Extended Care

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

Job Summary

As a Registered Nurse in Extended Care, you will provide holistic nursing care focused on the individual resident within their family, culture, and society. You will utilize the nursing process—assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation—to ensure quality care that meets legal and professional standards. You will advocate for residents by coordinating total care and supporting their highest practicable level of function.

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 or functional decline.
• Recognize and report signs of neglect or abuse (child, domestic, elder).
• Collaborate with residents, families, and healthcare team to set and review daily care priorities.
• Delegate tasks appropriately to team members based on resident needs and staff knowledge.
• Communicate with physicians to coordinate medical and nursing care plans.
• Demonstrate competence in technical nursing skills, including medication and IV administration per scope of practice.
• Manage urgent and emergent resident care situations proactively.
• Document nursing interventions, resident responses, and outcomes; revise care plans as needed.
• 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.
• Supervise, coach, counsel, and evaluate assigned CNA staff performance.

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• None specified.

Additional Information

• This role requires active participation in quality improvement processes and alignment with organizational core values.
• Prior travel experience is not specified as a requirement.
• Specialty experience requirement is not explicitly stated; standard RN experience in extended care is implied.

This position offers an opportunity to provide comprehensive nursing care in an extended care setting, emphasizing resident advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and quality outcomes.