A nursing facility in Crescent City, FL is hiring Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN)
Why work for us?
- You will have the opportunity to build a career with an established, highly successful
- organization in a caring and compassionate environment.
- We are committed to your growth and success.
- Come join employees who have become family!
- Work today, and get paid today!
Benefits:
- $5000 NEW HIRE BONUS for FT Hires
- Shift differential pay
- Beautiful work environment
- Competitive Wages and Benefit Package
- Flexible Schedule
- Paid Time Off
- Overtime Pay
- 401K
Now Hiring: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- Full-Time, Part-Time, and Per Diem
Essential Job Functions:
This facility expects its employees to promote an atmosphere of teamwork with other employees and hospitality and comfort for its residents.Therefore, the following list of duties is not all-inclusive:
Administrative Functions
- Direct the day-to-day functions of the nursing assistants in accordance with rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care industry.
- Confirm that all nursing personnel assigned to you comply with the written policies and procedures established by this facility.
- Meet with your assigned nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the shift’s services, programs and activities.
- Verify that all nursing personnel comply with the procedures set forth the in the Nursing Policies and Procedures Manual.
- Make written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift, as required.
- Cooperate with other resident services when coordinating nursing services to ensure that the resident’s total regimen of care is maintained.
- Verify that all nursing service personnel are in compliance with their respective job descriptions.
- Participate in the development, maintenance, and implementation of the facility’s quality assurance program for the nursing department.
- Participate in surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies.
- Periodically review the resident’s written discharge plan.Participate in the updating of the resident’s written discharge plan, as required.
- Assist in planning the nursing portion of the resident’s discharge plan, as necessary.
- Admit, transfer, and discharge residents, as required.
- Complete accident/incident reports, as necessary.
Nursing Care Functions
- Deliver and maintain optimum resident care and comfort by demonstrating knowledge and skills of current nursing practices.
- Promptly respond to call lights and other resident needs.
- Make rounds with physicians, as necessary.
- Consult with the resident’s physician in providing the resident’s care, treatment, rehabilitation, etc., as necessary.
- Review the resident’s chart for specific treatments, medication orders, diets, etc., as necessary.
- Make periodic checks to confirm that prescribed treatments are being properly administered by CNAs and to evaluate the resident’s physical and emotional status.
- Notify the resident’s attending physician when the resident is involved in an accident or incident.
- Notify the resident’s attending physician and responsible party when there is a change in the resident’s condition.
- Administer professional services such as:catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, taking blood, giving massages and range of motion exercises, care for the dead/dying, etc., as required.
- Monitor seriously ill residents, as necessary.
- Review care plans daily to confirm that appropriate care is being rendered.
- Confirm that CNAs are aware of the resident care plans.Verify that the CNAs refer to the resident’s care plan prior to administering daily care to the resident.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Licensed Practical Nurse with current state license
- Excellent technical, assessment and documentation skills
- Good Leadership qualities
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