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RN Nights and Weekends Team 1 - Capital Caring HealthIt's inspiring to work with a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! When you become part of the Chapters Health Team, you'll realize it's more than a job. It's a mission. We're committed to providing outstanding patient care and a high level of customer service in our communities every day. Our employees make all the difference in our success! Role: The Nights & Weekends RN is to provide visits to patients with emergent, critical needs in a timely manner. The Nights & Weekends RN arranges for, teaches, and supervises nursing care of patients in home care and facility settings in collaboration with other members of the Interdisciplinary Group. The Nights & Weekends RN makes nursing assessments and uses critical thinking skills to provide care based on evidence-based practice. Supervisory Responsibilities The Nights & Weekends RN is responsible for supervising LPNs, CNAs, and Continuous Care RNsLPNs. Experience Requirements The Nights & Weekends RN must have must have at least one year of staff nurse experience in a comparable settingunit. Hospice andor palliative care experience is strongly preferred. Education Requirements The Nights & Weekends RN must have at least a degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program. A BSN degree is preferred. Required Certificates andor Licenses The Nights & Weekends RN must have licensure from the governing body for practice for the District of Columbia, State of Maryland, andor the Commonwealth of Virginia, based on the statejurisdiction of practice; or licensure from compact state. Healthcare Provider BLS (CPR) is required to practice in the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia. A CHPN certification is a plus. Overall Skills The ability to demonstrate superlative oral and written communication skills as well as ability to organize and manage projects within defined timeframe and budget; work both independently and as part of a team; demonstrate excellent interpersonal and collaborative; demonstrate organizational skills with ability to delegate and follow up; manage multiple tasks and stressful situations with a positive attitude; demonstrate a strong work ethic and attention to detail; perform a thorough (telephonic) nursing assessment; recognize stress caused by working with dying patients and their families and seek to reduce stress through available support and personal resources; professionally manage highly confidential information. PhysicalMentalEmotional Skills The ability to possess exceptional skills, including a faculty for conceptual thinking, peer motivation, problem solving, and who can demonstrate initiative, follow-up and follow-through; work in a fast paced environment utilizing tact, patience, and diplomacy; work independently; resolve conflict and be comfortable with conflict resolution and management; facilitate the development of trusting relationships and partnerships with physicians, payers, patients and co-workers; maintain a positive public image for Capital Caring Health by dealing with patients and employees; communicate respectfully, openly, honestly and directly; display comfortably with possible blood, bodily fluid, communicable diseases, and etc. exposure; push and pull heavy objects; display a full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients; serve as coach, mentor and a positive role model; drive long distances, on a tight schedule, sometimes in heavy traffic; provide physical care to patients. Technological Skills The ability to input and manage data in patient health information systems and demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Office and internet browsers. Reasoning Ability The ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form and deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, and hear. The employee is required to stand; walk; bend, stoop, and reach; use hands and fingers to handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; demonstrate manual dexterity to operate medical devicesequipment and perform procedures, also to operate keyboards, laptops, and phones, should be able to taste or smell; and push, pull, liftcarry 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Work Environment The work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee would normally encounter while performing the essential functions of this job in an office. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Works in a business office with computers, printers, copyfax machines and telephones. The noise level in the work environment is usually light to moderate. The environmental conditions are that of what is to be expected in a temperature-controlled building. Occasionally required to drive to alternate work locations. This position requires consent to drug andor alcohol testing after a conditional offer of employment is made, as well as on-going compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Policy.