Westwood Specialty Care is a beautiful, new facility with a wonderful reputation in the community. We can boast that we get a lot of repeat business, mostly friends and family of past residents. We offer competitive pay and benefits and would love to have you come join our family.

• Follow established standards of nursing practices and implement facility policies and procedures.
• Assumes responsibility for unit/shift staff compliance with rules, regulations, standards of practice and facility policy and procedure; assures that residents receive needed nursing care and services on that shift, according to plans of care and physicians’ instructions.
• Interpret existing policies and procedures, rules and regulations to nursing assistants, restorative nursing assistants, residents, families, physicians and agency personnel.
• Supervise and evaluate all direct resident care and initiate corrective action as necessary.
• Document resident care provided and resident’s response or lack of response to care provided.
• Obtain report from nurse being relieved and record sufficient information to implement appropriate follow-up action as necessary.
• Provide report to nurse coming on duty, including sufficient information for follow-up action as necessary.
• Take appropriate action to assure adequate staffing to meet residents’ needs.
• Conduct resident rounds daily, reporting problems to nursing supervisor and initiating corrective action.
• Identify resident problems and emergency situation and initiate emergency care and “life-saving” measures in the absence of a physician.
• Provide supervision to Nursing Assistant providing direct resident care.
• Follow staffing guidelines and make nursing assignments according to qualifications of staff and characteristics of the resident population.
• Plan daily work assignments and schedule based on residents’ needs and available resources, effectively communicates to unit/shift staff, DON, ADON, and Staffing Clerk, and monitors staff compliance with assignments and schedule.
• Counsel and monitor staff’s work behavior and performance of assigned duties and recommend disciplinary action to the Director of Nursing, when necessary.