Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Trio Healthcare • Martinsville, VA

13d • Onsite

About The Position

This role requires an LPN who can work independently and possesses a strong understanding of nursing practices, procedures, and relevant state laws and regulations for long-term care facilities. The ideal candidate will have leadership abilities and the capacity to collaborate effectively with other LPNs, CNAs, and non-professional staff. This position involves implementing facility programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures, while adhering to company policies, including harassment and complaint procedures. The LPN must be proficient in English and work as part of a healthcare team to assess resident needs, plan and modify care, implement interventions, and evaluate outcomes. Responsibilities include administering medications, monitoring vital signs, providing basic resident care, sterilizing equipment, and assisting residents with daily living activities.

Requirements

• Must possess the ability to work independently.
• Must be knowledgeable of nursing practices and procedures as well as the applicable state laws, regulations, and guidelines governing nursing functions in the long-term care facility.
• Must possess leadership ability and willingness to work harmoniously with and supervise other LPNs, CNAs and non-professional personnel.
• Must have the ability to implement the programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures of the facility.
• Must understand and follow company policies, including harassment and complaint procedures.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Must be able to work as part of a health care team to assess resident needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
• Must be able to evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.
• Must be able to administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients’ charts.
• Must be able to observe residents, charting and reporting changes in residents’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Must be able to provide basic resident care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Must be able to sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
• Must be able to answer residents’ calls and determine how to assist them.
• Must be able to measure and record residents’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
• Must be able to collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from residents, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Must be able to prepare residents for examinations, tests or treatments and explain procedures.
• Must be able to assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.
• Must be able to record food and fluid intake and output.
• Must be able to assist residents with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
• Must be able to apply compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.
• Must be able to clean rooms and make beds.
• Must be able to prepare food trays and examine them for conformance to prescribed diet.
• Must be able to wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
• Must be able to assist in the evacuation of residents.

Responsibilities

• Work independently.
• Be knowledgeable of nursing practices and procedures as well as the applicable state laws, regulations, and guidelines governing nursing functions in the long-term care facility.
• Possess leadership ability and willingness to work harmoniously with and supervise other LPNs, CNAs and non-professional personnel.
• Implement the programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures of the facility.
• Understand and follow company policies, including harassment and complaint procedures.
• Read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Work as part of a health care team to assess resident needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients’ charts.
• Observe residents, charting and reporting changes in residents’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Provide basic resident care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
• Answer residents’ calls and determine how to assist them.
• Measure and record residents’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
• Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from residents, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Prepare residents for examinations, tests or treatments and explain procedures.
• Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.
• Record food and fluid intake and output.
• Assist residents with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
• Apply compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.
• Clean rooms and make beds.
• Prepare food trays and examine them for conformance to prescribed diet.
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
• Assist in the evacuation of residents.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree