Duties Description Independently performs the duties below:
- Conducts nursing assessments; and obtains, records, and updates individuals’ health information and vital signs, using standard instruments and procedures.
- Prepares, implements, and modifies nursing care plans; prepares individuals for and/or assists with examinations and treatments; and administers medications and nursing procedures to individuals, as prescribed
- Observes, monitors, and records individuals’ symptoms, conditions, and care, including diet and physical activity; and identifies and reports individuals’ responses to medication or changes in health status.
- Serves as the nursing representative on a treatment team; provides information on nursing needs; and consults and coordinates with treatment teams and other health care disciplines to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate individuals’ care.
- Makes clinical rounds to assess individuals’ nursing care needs and observe and participate in the provision of nursing services.
- Provides health teaching, counseling, and education to individuals, families, and other groups; and develops health improvement programs.
- Implements infection control protocols and procedures and provides related consultation and instruction to staff.
- Maintains and updates charts, records, and other documentation, consistent with agency, State, and federal requirements; and may collect data and perform related activities to support medical research.
- Monitors inventories and ensures that standards for medications, solutions, supplies, and equipment are maintained to meet nursing care needs.
Provides clinical supervision and instruction to Graduate Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and direct care staff in completing nursing care tasks.
- Delegates responsibility for appropriate nursing activities, skills, and/or procedures to nursing and direct care staff; and makes clinical rounds to assess individuals’ nursing care needs and observe and evaluate the provision of nursing services.
- Acts as liaison to outside agencies and providers to ensure continuity of care and the necessary follow-up for individuals; advocates for individuals’ needs; and may provide instruction to providers on individuals’ discharge plans.
- May perform the full range of supervisory duties over Graduate Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and direct care staff; provide information to Registered Nurse Supervisors; and prepare or contribute to the preparation of reports and performance evaluations for lower-level staff involved in nursing care activities.
May include the additional job duties
- Weekly (minimally) to provide nursing oversight and complete review of items.
- 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.
- Provides necessary documentation regarding home visits within established time frames.
- Follows pressure wound policy and documentation requirements.
- Provides appropriate nursing services and support/oversight to Residential/SENSORY Unit 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.
- PONS are current (for caseload) and signed by staff. All PONS are maintained in computer files.
- Provides health related training/consultation to day program, IES, residential staff.
- Annually for everyone in your caseload completes review of medical section ISP, medication audit (each home).
- 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 DSA’s 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.
(SENSORY UNIT DESCRIPTION)
The Sensory Unit is designed to provide residential opportunities for individuals currently residing within Bernard Fineson State Operations specifically from either ICF specialized unit where it is determined if the individual will benefit from or has limited responses for a potential placement. Referrals will be established through recommendations from the clinical team and approved by Administration as circumstances dictate. The selected individual will identify as having sensory needs from the 8 sensory systems or other specialty admissions authorized by OPWDD Bernard Fineson Leadership.
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Minimum Qualifications Must have a license and a current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State.
TRANSFER QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates must have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/c status in the posted title and be eligible for lateral transfer; OR be eligible to transfer via Section 70.1 or 70.4 of Civil Service Law.
The transfer cannot be a second consecutive transfer resulting in an advancement of more than two salary grades.
To determine if your current Civil Service title is eligible for transfer to this title, visit the Career Mobility GOT-IT website: https://careermobilityoffice.cs.ny.gov/cmo/gotit/index.cfm.
Additional Comments This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS). HELPS Program titles may be filled via a non-competitive appointment. This means that you do not need to take an exam to qualify, but you do need to meet the minimum qualifications of the title.
At a future date (within one year of permanent appointment), employees hired under NY HELPS are expected to have their permanent non-competitive employment status converted to permanent competitive status. You will not have to take an exam to gain permanent competitive status.
- Please note that starting salary for this title reflects the increased hiring salary, geographic pay differential and Downstate adjustment. Posted Hiring Salary includes the sum of the statutory hiring rate for PS&T Grade 18 ($69,964), Increase hiring rate ($9,612), Geographic Pay Differential ($35,000) and Downstate Adjustment ($4,150). The Downstate adjustment and Geographic Pay Differential are also added to the job rate ($88,970).
- If you are currently a New York State employee serving in a permanent competitive qualifying title and eligible for a transfer via Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law, you may be appointed to this title as a permanent competitive employee.
- The assignment of PS&T employees will be made in accordance with any agreed upon Memorandum of Understanding between PEF and the local DDSO regarding the posting of job vacancies.
- Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume.
- All OPWDD employees must be eligible and maintain eligibility for full and unconditional participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Continued employment will depend on maintaining eligibility.
- If you are employed by state government you may be able to receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on Direct Loans after 120 qualifying monthly payments have been made under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer. For more information on PSLF, please visit www.studentAid.gov/publicservice.
- Employees on long term leave can bid on positions but must be able to report to work within fourteen (14) days and be able to perform the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodation (RA).
- If an employee or job applicant believes that they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the Reasonable Accommodation Unit at (518) 486-7222 or email accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.
- Savings programs such as the U.S. Savings Bond and the College Savings Plan.
- Voluntary pre-tax savings programs such as Health Care Spending Account and the Dependent Care Advantage Account offer employees options to pay for uncovered health care expenses or dependent care expenses.
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) an assessment and referral service that connects employees with local service providers and support services to address their personal needs.
- Life insurance and Disability insurance.
- The New York State Deferred Compensation Plan is a voluntary retirement plan that offers employees the option to invest a part of their salaries for retirement on a tax-deferred basis.
- Paid Holidays and Leave: ° Thirteen (13) paid holidays each year. ° Thirteen (13) days of paid vacation leave initially. ° Five (5) days paid personal leave each year. ° Thirteen (13) days of paid sick leave each year (PEF/CSEA), which may carry over from year to year. ° Up to three (3) days professional leave each year to participate in professional development events.
- Health Care Coverage: Employees and their eligible dependents can choose from a variety of affordable health insurance programs. Employees are provided family dental and vision plans at no extra cost.
- Paid Parental Leave: Paid Parental Leave allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave at full pay for each qualifying event. A qualifying event is defined as the birth of a child or placement of a child for adoption or foster care.
- Retirement Program: Participate in The NYS Employees’ Retirement System (ERS), which is recognized as one of the best-managed and best-funded public retirement systems in the nation.
- Professional Development and Education and Training: NYS offers training programs and tuition assistance to eligible employees to maintain and increase their professional skills and prepare them for promotional opportunities. For more information, please visit https://oer.ny.gov/training-and-professional-development.
- Additionally, the Public Service Workshops Program (PSWP) offers certain professional training opportunities for PEF represented and M/C designated employees that may grant continuing education credits towards maintaining professional licensure. For more information, please visit https://oer.ny.gov/public-service-workshops-program-pswp.
- OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer dedicated to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
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