LPN (Night Shift)

pspan style="font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;"SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE!!!!/span/p pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Position Summary:/span  Responsible for providing professional nursing care to residents and assists in the administration of all medications and treatments to provide the highest possible quality of nursing care for each resident, adhering to established standards and recommendations for the long term care of geriatric residents. /span/p pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px;"span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"Qualifications:/spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"  Sufficient previous clinical experience. Current LPN license in the state where employed, CPR certification./span/span/p pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"Duties:/span/p pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Assigns duties to non-professional nursing staff for the particular shift, based on needs of the resident and competence of available staff/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Accepting and transcribing doctors orders, acquisition of and administration of all medications and treatments and proper documentation/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Does primary patient assessment and visits residents daily to ensure maximum care and to ascertain need for additional or modified service/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Assists in orientation of new personnel to unit/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Knows the hospital’s LTCU safety plans and assigns team members in event they are put into effect/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Identifies and studies nursing service and unit problems and assists in their solution/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Implements nursing and administrative policies, makes sure all staff are following and implementing P and P/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Notifies proper authorities when:/span/li /ul pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px;"                        a)span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"   /spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Patient condition changes/span/span/p pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px;"span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"                      b)span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"    /span/spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Accident occurs to resident or employee/span/span/p pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px;"span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"                      c)span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"    /span/spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Any suggestion on resident’s medication or treatment/span/span/p pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px;"span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"                      d)span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"    /span/spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Notifies family of resident per family notification policy/span/span/p pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Performs such procedures as catheterization, bladder irrigations, dressing changes and other complex treatments in accordance with accepted nursing policies and procedures/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Is expected to answer residents call lights when needed/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"All language during assigned working hours shall be English unless otherwise directed by supervisor on a case by case basis/span/li /ul pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Shall perform any and all other duties, within your scope of practice, as assigned by those appointed to a position over you/span/li /ul pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"Working Conditions:/span/p pbr/p ul lispan style="font-size: 16px;"span style="font-family: Wingdings;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /span/spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases/span/span/li lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances/span/li lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Exposed to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries, illness)/span/li lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Subject to varying and unpredictable situations/span/li lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"May perform emergency care/span/li lispan style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif;"Carry out infection Control Standards/spanspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif;"/span/li /ul pbr/p pspan style="font-size: 22px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE!!!!!/span/p