Requirements / Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: A current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Nebraska or authority based on the Nurse Licensure Compact to practice as a Registered Nurse in Nebraska and one year of experience assigning, reviewing, leading, or supervising the work of others.
Preferred Qualifications: Long Term Care experience, Wound Care Certification, MDS Coordinator certification
Other: Valid driver’s license; A pre-employment background check and drug screen are also required.
Knowledge of: registered nursing theory and practice; accepted standards of care; policies and procedures governing nursing care; sanitation and infection control standards; planning, providing, and evaluating quality nursing care; Nebraska regulations pertaining to nursing practice, including scope of practice parameters; psychology or another behavioral science; supervision or management techniques, principles.
Skill in: coordinating and providing nursing care; directing nursing service program activities.
Ability to: supervise a shift or program for nursing care; oversee the maintenance of medical records; write administrative reports as required; communicate effectively electronically, telephonically, on paper, or in person; use a computer; monitors direct care staff; assists in training and education direct care staff; plan, monitor work of direct care staff; lift up to 50lbs occasionally and push/pull up to 75lbs on a daily basis; frequently bend at the waist and neck, frequently twist at the waist, and walk or stand up to 90% of the shift.