NURSING

Job Description

Job Description

Plymouth Inn is seeking compassionate nurses to provide essential services to those living in our assisted living community. We’re committed to maintaining a home-like environment where our dedicated team treats each resident with care and respect.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Administers medications or starts intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patient charts.
• Observes patients, charting and reporting changes in conditions such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment and takes necessary actions.
• Answers patients calls and determines how to assist them.
• Measures and records patient vital signs such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
• Provides basic patient care or treatments such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Works as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plans and modifies care, and implements interventions.
• Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members.
• Assembles and uses equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Records food and fluid intake and output.

Required Skills/Abilities

• General knowledge of nursing and health care terminology.
• Excellent patient care skills.

Education and Experience

• Postsecondary certificate from vocational school or associate degree in nursing required.
• Current state licensure required

Physical Requirements

May require prolonged periods of standing, moving and bending. May also require lifting.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule

Full and Part time employment is available for all shifts:

• Day (6:30am to 3:00pm)
• Afternoon (2:30pm to 11:00pm)
• Midnight (11:00pm to 7:00am)

Application

Interested applicants are asked to respond to this posting with your resume or stop in to complete an application at Plymouth Inn (205 Haggerty Road, Plymouth, MI 48170).