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RN (Skilled Nursing) – Our Lady on Mercy Life Center – Guilderland, NY

If you are looking for a RN position in skilled nursing, to meet your schedule as full time, this could be your opportunity. Here at St. Peter's Health Partner's, we care for more people in more places.

Our Lady of Mercy Life Center is committed to providing quality services with the outstanding compassion for which St. Peter's is renowned. Our well-trained staff's devotion to our residents leads to better outcomes and higher ratings in resident and family satisfaction surveys.

Divided into four units of 40 residents each, four private rooms and 18 semiprivate rooms, Our Lady strives to maintain the intimacy of a homelike setting. To help foster a sense of community and friendship among the residents, each unit has its own distinctively decorated dining room.

Position Highlights:

• Top Class Care: Facility ranked in the top 5% of nursing homes nationally for 2020 and 2021
• Quality of Life: Where career opportunities and quality of life converge
• Advancement: Strong orientation program, tuition assistance and career development
• Work/Life: Leadership team tries to be as accommodating with schedule as possible and have multiple shift options open
• Flexible schedule: Work schedule has some flexibility as team understand real world hurdles and offer multiple scheduling options like 12 hour shifts, 5 hour shifts, etc
• Multiple units: The facility has long-term care units, dementia unit and a sub acute unit offering med surg care to their residents
• Team engagement: Leadership team engaged on the floor and utilizes team suggestions for innovative decision making
• No mandating: Team does not mandate their nursing staff
• Close to home: Location that is an easy commute from Schenectady, Rotterdam, Albany and Latham

What you will do:

• Responsible and accountable to utilizing the nursing process to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential problems of individuals or groups.

Responsibilities:

• Admission assessment consistent with guidelines and interview resident/significant others to complete health history
• Utilize resources to assess residents with conditions that are new, unfamiliar or not commonly seen on unit
• Interpret overt/covert assessment data to determine when resident is at acute psychological and/or psychosocial risk then report and record the interpretation
• Inform and educate resident what care or service is to be provided
• Develop and contribute to a plan of care based on potentially existing problems, expected resident response and the medical plan of care
• Communicate the plan of care by using methods that include action plans, goals and time frames

What you will need:

Required:

• A current license to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of New York
• Associate’s degree in nursing or Degree of Nursing from an accredited school

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.