Instructions:
Rate your experience performing specific job-related tasks.
In responding to each statement, you may refer to your WORK EXPERIENCE, whether paid or volunteer, your EDUCATION, and/or FORMAL TRAINING COURSES you have completed.
PLEASE NOTE: This examination is designed to gain an overall assessment of your education, training, and experience as it directly relates to the duties and the knowledge, skills and abilities required for this position. Possession of specific education is not required to be successful in this examination; however, such achievements may substitute for desirable levels of experience. All components of this examination have been carefully validated by tying them directly to job requirements and documenting their relevance to the position.
Tasks:
1. Supervise subordinate nursing staff in performing their duties.
2. Monitor and review patient care plans.
3. Conduct quality assurance monitoring.
4. Ensure a therapeutic environment where patients are treated in a professional, empathetic, and tactful manner contributing to their health and well-being in accordance with professional ethics.
5. Audit patient charts for completeness and accuracy.
6. Review clinical records, bedside charts, progress records, and consult with medical officers concerning special cases.
7. Oversee a comprehensive and on-going appropriate infection control practice in the absence of Infection Control Specialist.
8. Coordinate interdisciplinary care team meetings.
9. Consult with members of interdisciplinary care team for information sharing, training, and identifying goals.
10. Assist staff in identifying rehabilitative potential of individual patients and care plans.
11. Assess training needs of nursing staff.
Knowledge, Skill, Ability:
1. Thorough knowledge of professional nursing principles and techniques.
2. Thorough knowledge of medical and nursing terminology.
3. Intermediate knowledge of facility routine and equipment.
4. Thorough knowledge of proper medication administration.
5. Intermediate knowledge of medicines and narcotics.
6. Thorough knowledge of mathematical conversions (e.g., milligrams to grams, etc.).
7. Thorough knowledge of current developments and professional nursing standards.
8. Thorough knowledge of nursing processes including assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient condition.
9. Working knowledge of the principles and techniques of effective supervision.
10. Intermediate knowledge of the interrelationships of all treatment activities in a long term residential care facility setting.
11. General knowledge of the department’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) program objectives.
