
Nurse (RN/LPN)
- Durham, NC
- $30.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Established non-profit in the community since 1974
- Provides support to over 120 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
- RSI employs more than 250 clinical, direct care, nursing, and administrative staff.
- RSI ranks highly in Orange County, NC: 5th largest non-profit & 15th largest employer
- RSI's Spring Glen Retirement Community, est. in 2003, was the first in NC to specifically provide retirement services to individuals with IDD.
- Ideal Staff to Resident Ratio: 6 staff to 15 residents (staff composition: 1 Nurse, 5 Direct Care), nurses can focus on medical care needs
- Holistic Approach to Healthcare: Spring Glen staff engage with residents to provide quality social connections/interactions in addition to providing quality medical care
- Relaxed/Low-Stress Atmosphere: Engage in fun activities with residents in between providing nursing duties
- Modernized Approach/Environmental Impact: RSI uses electronic documentation and reporting (Therap) to streamline communication, enhance quality of services, and reduce paperwork/environmental impact.
- Quality Training/Investment in employee future: Access to well trained, knowledgeable, and supportive RN supervisors on-site and on-call promotes a healthy learning environment providing opportunities to develop and maintain nursing skills. Medication administration practices, procedures, and training are provided.
- Innovative Projects: Contribute your ideas on current and future projects related to developing an enhanced dementia/aging friendly environment. Spring Glen values employee input to make current projects and new initiatives successful.
- Schedules: PT Every Other Weekend 1pm-9pm with the opportunity to pick up additional shifts.
- Lead Training Opportunities: Train direct care staff on use of medical equipment & provision of basic medical care services, assist with healthcare and hygiene education, develop protocols & guidelines, administer medications, maintain medical equipment, complete nursing observations and assessments
- Pursue your own growth & learning: intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health, and aging population fields; provide routine and acute care needs, get to know the residents you care for
- Other benefits: Paid nursing license renewal, CEU tracking, tuition reimbursement, Health/Dental/Life insurance, 403(b) retirement plan, paid time off, and more! Gain valuable experience that you cannot find elsewhere working with the elderly IDD population!