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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 01/13/20

Applications Due01/27/20

Vacancy ID77870

AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for

TitleNurse 2 (RN)

Occupational CategoryHealth Care, Human/Social Services

Salary Grade16

Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary RangeFrom $57722 to $71557 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Other (see below)

"Other" Explanation FRI/MON (WEEK 1 & 3) & SAT/SUN (WEEK 2 & 4)

Hours Per Week 40

Workday

From 3:30 PM

To 11:30 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? No

County Kings

Street Address Shirtz I

960 Elton Street

City Brooklyn

StateNY

Zip Code11208

Minimum Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Transfer: Currently a permanent Nurse 2

Candidates must be licensed and currently registered to practice nursing in New York State AND have one year of post-RN licensure clinical nursing experience.

OR

Must currently be a permanent Nurse 1 with one year of post-licensure registered nurse clinical experience.

OR

Must be active and reachable on the Civil Service Eligible List for Nurse 2.

Duties Description Monitors individual’s medical/health needs and services.
• Interacts with primary, medical specialists, various clinical staff as necessary.
• Advocate for individuals’ health care needs
• Maintains ongoing communication with med liaison/designee
• Provides support to residential staff in maintaining health services for the individuals.
• Utilizes appropriate reporting mechanisms/chain of command in responding to individual and/or staff issues
• Completes follow-up including documentation for individuals post ER/hospital visit follow-up
• Reviews, comments, initials and dates lab, x-ray, consults, etc. If indicated completes follow-up with practitioner.
• Maintain an adequate number of meds for all the individuals at the house by:
i. Reviewing the MAR, match it with the doctor's orders and medication at hand.
ii. Check the reserve for a medication refill, a new blister pack or a 7-day medication supply of meds left in the current blister pack (BID = 14 pills and TID = 21 pills).
iii. In the absence of a reserve call the pharmacy for a refill.
iv. Where there is no refill with the pharmacy, check when the next individual's doctor’s appointment is.
v. If the appointment is too far, work with the doctor for immediate evaluation of the individual and a new Script.

Provides appropriate nursing services and support/oversight to Residential/Day Hab. staff
• Responds to emergency requests as soon as possible (within and outside caseload).
• Completes nursing assessments and related documentation e.g. RN Notes, nursing log book, etc. thoroughly and within established time frames.
• Provides individual-specific nursing interventions.
• Responds to staff questions regarding individual specific medical/nursing issues.
• Q+As and PONS are current (for caseload) and signed by staff. All PONS are maintained in computer files.
• Provides health related training/consultation to day program, residential staff.
• Annually for each individual in your caseload, completes: review of medical section ISP, medication audit (each home/day program/IES), Maintains current information for RN Health Monitoring Review and Home and Program Information for RN
• Keeps up to date regarding changes to medical section on ISP
• Responsible for obtaining individual’s informed consent for medications, as per BDDSOO Policy.
Provides adequate nursing assessment/supervision of DSAs competency regarding individual –specific nursing delegated procedures including medication administration
• Completes initial medication certification and conducts annual clinical performance evaluations for DSAS for procedures that include but not limited to medication administration (Annual Clinical Nursing Evaluation of Nursing Delegated Tasks)
• Provides training for all staff as needed on new/revised medication policies.
• Provides CMHN, NA and NPC’ with certification/recertification information for data base in a timely manner.
• Completes required medication error documentation and staff medication error remediation

Provides clinical supervision to LPNs
• Provides adequate nursing supervision and completes performance evaluations (as assigned) regarding individual-specific nursing procedures.

Maintains professional skills
• Attends Nursing Discipline meetings.
• Attends/completes on-line mandated DDSO training, as well as available discipline specific training.
• Identifies problems and/or opportunities for personal and/or nursing department improvement (s) and contributes to the development of an action plan.
• Completes special projects/assignments

Additional Comments The posted hiring rate is the sum of the statutory hiring rate for PS&T Grade 16 ($50,722), an Increased Hiring Salary ($4,363), Downstate Adjustment of ($3,026), and a Geographic Pay Differential ($12,871). Total: $70,982.

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Name Human Resources

Telephone 718-642-6310

Fax 718-642-5290

Email Address Brooklyn.HR@opwdd.ny.gov

Address

Street 888 Fountain Avenue

City Brooklyn

State NY

Zip Code 11239

 

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