Oregon - Licensed Practical Nurse - LPN

Prestige Care•Sunriver, OR

16d•Onsite

About The Position

Prestige Senior Living Praire House is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to carry out and assist in the delivery of nursing services to residents, including oversight and direction for caregivers. The LPN will maintain and support good working processes for care staff, ensuring the continuation of services to residents and understanding the assisted living philosophy. This role involves supervising nonprofessional staff, monitoring work assignments, providing feedback, and evaluating performance. The LPN will also prepare for new admissions, transfers, and discharges, providing direct resident care as needed. They will complete treatments and procedures as ordered by a physician, administer medications, monitor resident skin condition, and document all pertinent information. A key aspect of this role is respecting resident rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, privacy, and property. The LPN will also support a dignified and caring atmosphere, protect privacy and confidentiality, maintain a safe and secure working environment, and comply with company policies.

Requirements

Must have a current, unencumbered LPN license.
Excellent written and oral communication and motivational skills are essential to success.
Ability to creatively problem-solve in both resident care and employee management situations.
Must be able to perform the essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodations.
Minimum of 1 year working in geriatric nursing, including experience with medication administration, delivery systems and pharmacies.

Nice To Haves

Geriatric experience or coursework an asset.

Responsibilities

Maintains and supports good working processes for care staff ensuring continuation of services to residents understands the assisted living philosophy
Supervises nonprofessional staff in the daily delivery of resident care, schedules job assignments and develops nursing unit priorities and assists in identifying substitutes for staff absences.
Monitors work assignments, provides feedback, evaluates performance, and redirects services as directed by Resident Care Manager or Director of Nursing Services of pertinent problems.
Prepares or assists with new admissions, transfers, and discharges, providing direct resident care as determined by resident condition.
Completes treatments and procedures, as ordered by the physician, and within scope of practice and related training while observing resident condition and reporting changes to physician and Resident Care Manager.
Evaluates and records residents’ needs and responses to medications and administers medications as ordered by the physician and directs medication aides accordingly.
Monitors resident skin condition and reports changes or new problems to physician and Resident Care Manager and monitors residents on alert status.
Completes incident forms, transcribes and carries out physician orders and notifies family and physician as directed.
Documents all pertinent information on interdisciplinary notes and 24-Hour D.N.S. report form, and documents medications, treatments and procedures performed on appropriate records.
Respects resident rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy and property.
Assists others with lifting, and attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings.
Supports a dignified and caring atmosphere with residents, residents’ families, visitors and staff.
Protects privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to residents, employees, the facility, and company information and records.
Maintains a safe and secure working environment and practices safe working habits.
Complies with the attendance policy.
Maintains neat appearance, good personal hygiene, and appropriate attire.
Assists with special projects as assigned and performs other related duties.