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- What does it mean to be a team member at Iroquois Memorial Hospital?
- It means that the patient is truly at the center of everything we do.
- It means that the quest for excellence is not just a goal, but a given.
- It means building an environment where our providers and our employees can deliver the best in healthcare.
- It also means that each employee or volunteer is vital to the healing process, because we can only achieve the extraordinary together.
IMH offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and great work environment. If this sounds like a role that might be a good fit for you, please apply today and let’s talk more about this opportunity.
Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse
Department: Resident Home
Status: Full Time, 36 hours per week
Schedule
7:00pm - 7:00am, Nights; shift differential offered for this position.
Summary/Objective
To provide high quality nursing care by conducting patient assessments, administering treatment and medications.
Essential Functions
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Utilizes the nursing process to ensure assessments are performed in a timely manner and appropriate for patients' condition. Plan of care is formulated timely and addresses all the patients conditions and/or concerns. Interventions are timely and appropriate with reassessment and re-intervention occurring per policy and as indicated by residents condition.
- Recognizes emergencies promptly and responds in an appropriate manner. Takes responsibility for crash cart readiness, dept readiness and is proficient in emergency procedures.
- Administers medications and IV’s timely and accurately.
- Performs treatments and procedures skillfully and on time as appropriate to the Resident Home.
- Educates residents and families: assesses readiness to learn and barriers to learning. Delivers information on a level appropriate for the individual. Information is complete and documented.
- Allows/encourages residents participation in decision making.
- Applies knowledge of National Patient Safety Goals.
- Assures that hourly rounding is done assessing toilet needs, pain, positioning & possessions within easy reach. Documents times on white board and follows with documentation in the medical records.
- Demonstrates an awareness of fall prevention techniques: Identifies residents at risk, communicates that risk to other caregivers, reports all falls or assisted falls.
- Engages in infection control practices: uses personal protective equipment appropriately, is diligent with hand washing , demonstrates knowledge of isolation procedures by implementing proper types of isolation.
- Documentation is timely and accurately reflects resident condition, progress and events. Never uses banned abbreviations in documentation.
- Experience/Education Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
- Possess current skilled nursing facility/hospital experience (within 5 years) of being a new nursing graduate (within 2 years).
- Prefer at least 1 year of experience in a skilled nursing facility.
- Completion of annual mandatory in-services and competency measurements.
- Licenses/Certifications
- State of IL LPN license.
- BLS certification.
- Benefit
- Medical Insurance
- Dental/Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401K
- Paid Time Off
- Iroquois Memorial Hospital is a 25 bed hospital located in Watseka, Illinois.
- The hospital facility is comprised of clinical and diagnostic services which are dedicated to providing high quality health care services to the community.
- These services include but are not limited to an Emergency Room, full service OR suites, an inpatient care unit, therapy services, advanced medical imaging, Home Health, and Hospice Care.
- The hospital operates rural health clinics in Watseka, IL, Gilman, IL, Milford, IL, Saint Anne, IL and Kentland, IN.
- The hospital also operates a skilled nursing facility, Iroquois Resident Home, which is attached to the hospital property.
