A crucial member of the team, the Licensed Practical Nurse is in charge of delivering and recording expert nursing care in compliance with the care plan that has been created and the orders of the doctors for each individual patient, all the while upholding professional boundaries and confidentiality standards.
Essential Job Functions
- Deliver quality patient care in compliance with physician orders under direction of their Registered Nurse teammate.
- Preform the continuum of hands on client care through documentation and timely communication with the client's physician and other caregivers
- Taking and monitoring patient vital signs
- Assisting patients with eating, dressing, and bathing
- Administering medication
- Communicating changes in patient behavior or health status to nurses, physicians, and family members
- Maintaining accurate patient records
- Performs routine immunizations, nebulizer treatments, and visual acuity testing, and administers and reads TB tests.
- Assists in phlebotomy: identifies patient, checks requisition form for requested tests, and prepares equipment, patient and puncture site
- Recognizes changes in patient needs and responses requiring intervention and implements care to prevent risk or reduce risk.
- Educate clients and their family members based on client’s specific needs.
- Provide care in patients home using a variety of skills such as phone triage, patient education, observation/assessment, wound care, infusions, catheter care, PICC line dressing changes etc.
Requirements:
- An active LPN License in the state of application
- Valid CPR and Drivers License
Preferred:
- Medicare Skilled Nursing experience
- Basic understanding of Oasis
- 1-year LPN experience in a home health or health care setting
- Homecare Home Base exp a plus
As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.