Registered Nurse

Job Summary

Starting at $37.00 - $46.25

Sign-on Bonus up to $3,500!

Shift and Weekend Differentials!

Looking for a great opportunity to be a Registered Nurse where you can really make a difference?

Join the team at Westminster Place, a Presbyterian Homes community, an independent, non-profit senior living care organization offering full continuum of care from independent and assisted living to skilled nursing and memory care at four luxury retirement communities. Presbyterian Homes has achieved national recognition and accreditation for senior living leadership and expertise. We were established in 1904 and have an excellent reputation for providing a wide range of living options to seniors to live every day as they wish. Our team members have consistently rated Presbyterian Homes as a great workplace in confidential engagement surveys.

Position Overview

To provide direct and indirect nursing care to residents within an assigned area in accordance with standards of professional nursing and supporting person centered care philosophy.

Essential Functions

• Practices nursing within the scope of education and ability.
• Supports and practices Presbyterian Homes person centered care.
• Supports Presbyterian Home’s policies and procedures and Nursing Department standards of care.
• Observes and preserves residents’ rights.
• Communicates appropriately with supervisors, co-workers, other employee’s rights and visitors.
• Accepts accountability for clinical care of assigned residents.
• Makes rounds on residents at least three times each shift assessing for changes in condition and response to care and treatment.
• Monitors the status of residents with acute problems.
• Provides direct nursing care to residents who require professional skilled care.
• Administers medications and treatments in accordance with established policies and procedures. Is familiar with indication for use, action, and major side effects of medications administered.
• Takes direct appropriate action in urgent and emergent situations.
• Anticipates and acts to maintain a safe environment.
• Evaluates in collaboration with the DON or supervisor, the job performance of CNA’s.
• Completes a nursing assessment upon admission, considering physical, functional and psychosocial status.
• Develops nursing care plans using nursing process.

Skills/Qualifications

• Graduation from an approved registered professional nursing program. Current Illinois license as a professional nurse. CPR certified, level A highly recommended
• One year as an RN in a hospital (general care) or long-term care setting with adults preferred.
• Good communications skills
• Interest in working with older adults.
• Ability to direct nursing assistants
• Responsible to learn and use standard functions within software and know basic operation of computer to enhance efficiency in resident/patient service, assessment and/or clinical documentation.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental Vision
• Long-term Disability & Extended Illness Bank Program
• Employee wellness program with medical benefit deduction incentives and cash bonuses!
• Confidential employee assistance program
• Generous Paid Time Off/PTO plan. It is a plan that rolls over year to year.
• Employee lounges and meal discount program.
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match and baseline
• Scholarship programs including Tuition reimbursement
• Citizenship Funding Program
• On-site Fitness Centers staffed with certified personal trainers

About us

Presbyterian Homes is an independent, not-for-profit senior living care organization of Life Planning Communities offering peace of mind through full continuum of care - independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care. We welcome people from all backgrounds at our family of communities that has served the Chicago, Illinois area since 1904. Presbyterian Homes proudly serves older adults at Westminster Place and Ten Twenty Grove in Evanston, Lake Forest Place in Lake Forest, and The Moorings in Arlington Heights.

All Presbyterian Homes employees are required to be Up-to-Date (as defined by the CDC) with all recommended COVID-19 vaccination doses (including booster dose(s)), when eligible, unless a reasonable accommodation is requested in writing and approved. As a condition of employment, new hires are required prior to the first day of work to provide documented proof to Human Resources of being Up-to-Date or scheduled to be Up-to-Date within 30 days of becoming eligible or submit a completed Request for Accommodation form (for a medical or religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with supporting documentation, where applicable) to Human Resources for consideration. As needed, Human Resources will engage the candidate in an interactive process to determine what, if any, reasonable accommodations might be available in accordance with applicable laws.

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