LTC Registered Nurse
Danbury, North Carolina
Novant Health Community Hospital of Stokes Rapid Response

LTC Registered Nurse

Overview

• Travel/contract role in Danbury, North Carolina
• Evening shift: 5x8, 15:00–23:00
• 36 hours can be offered
• 13-week contract
• Every other weekend required
• No call
• No float requirement
• Navy blue scrubs

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in North Carolina
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Long Term Care (2 years of experience)
• Long Term Care experience within the last year
• BLS
• PointClickCare experience required
• Experience with Point-Click Care

Preferred Qualifications

• Community hospital experience
• Previous charge experience
• Teaching hospital experience
• Trauma level I experience
• Trauma level II experience

Unit Details

• Geriatrics patient population
• Target staffing ratio: 1:40
• Patient ratio: 1:20
• Average daily census: 36
• 40 beds
• On-call MD after hours
• 2 CNAs
• Two nurses on the unit from 7p–11p, then one nurse after 11p

Skills and Experience

• Nursing home care
• Blood pressure assessment
• Peripheral pulse assessment
• Blood glucose monitoring
• Diabetes mellitus type II care
• Insulin administration
• Hypoglycemia/hyperglycemia recognition
• Bowel sound assessment
• Bowel dis-impaction
• Colostomy/ileostomy management
• Feeding tube care and management
• Gastrostomy tube care and feedings
• Foley catheter insertion, female and male
• Incontinence management
• UTI care
• Eye drop administration
• IM administration
• Inhaled medications/nebulizer treatment
• IV medication administration
• Narcotic count
• Oral administration
• Rectal medication administration
• SQ administration
• Starting and maintaining IVs
• Neurological status assessment
• Seizure precautions
• Analgesics, antiarrhythmics, antibiotics, anticoagulation therapy, antihyperglycemics, antihypertensives, antivirals, and non-narcotic analgesics
• Dressing changes
• Pressure relief devices and pressure ulcer prevention
• Pulse/CMS checks
• Skin assessment
• Wound care and treatments
• Accurate patient identification
• Advanced directives
• Emergency procedures/protocols
• Fall risk assessment/prevention
• Infection control
• Lab value interpretation and communication
• Isolation precautions/PPE
• Medication and specimen labeling
• Lift/transfer devices
• Intake/output monitoring
• National patient safety goals
• Pain assessment and management
• Restrictive devices/restraints
• Universal precautions
• Venipuncture
• Lung sound assessment/auscultation
• Asthma, COPD/emphysema, BiPAP/CPAP management, oxygen administration, pneumonia, pulse oximetry
• Denture care
• Hearing aids

Additional Preferred Skills

• Skilled/rehabilitation center experience
• Nephrostomy tube care
• Suprapubic catheter care
• Central line care (PICC)
• Peripheral line care
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Dementia
• CVA
• Memory care
• Neuromuscular disease
• Parkinson’s disease
• Spinal cord injury
• Stroke assessment
• Traumatic brain injury
• Amputation
• Assistive devices: crutches, walker
• Pressure ulcer staging assessment
• Suture/staple removal
• Total hip replacement
• Total knee replacement
• Wound assessment
• Wound V.A.C.
• Admission procedures
• Discharge procedure
• End-of-life/palliative care
• Patient care plans
• Patient/family teaching
• Specialty beds
• COVID
• Suctioning (EET, NT)
• Tracheostomy
• Blind patient care
• Cataracts
• Contact lenses
• Macular degeneration
• Prosthetic eye care