Licensed Practical Nurse 3/11 Every other weekend

Description Job Title Code

• LPN
• FLSA: Nonexempt Position Purpose The purpose of this position is to oversee, provide, and coordinate nursing care in compliance with facility policies and procedures and to evaluate residents’ care needs and take appropriate action. The Licensed Practical Nurse will care for ill, injured, or convalescing residents in the facility. The LPN may work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.

Supervisory Responsibility: None-may direct the work of CNAs, PCAs, and/or RAs on shift

• Essential Job Functions – Principal Accountabilities Administers medications, noting times and amounts on residents’ charts.
• Observes residents, charting and reporting changes in conditions such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment and takes necessary actions.
• Answers residents’ calls and determines how to assist them.
• Measures and records residents’ vital signs such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
• Provides basic resident care or treatments such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, l, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Works as part of a health care team to evaluate resident needs, plans and modifies care, and implements interventions.
• Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members.
• Assembles and uses equipment such as catheters, or oxygen suppliers.
• Assures resident safety through strict adherence to protocols, policies, and procedures, open communication with residents, supervisors, and coworkers, and careful observation of residents, equipment, and environmental conditions.
• Other Job Functions Performs other duties as assigned.

• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities Knowledge of medical principles (symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health care).
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local regulations Knowledge of therapy methods and procedures Oral and written communication skills Critical thinking and complex problem solving skills Customer service skills Skills to observe resident condition Must display professionalism, initiative, positive attitude, and concern for others Must be stress tolerant, self-motivated, cooperative, team-oriented, and dependable.