Licensed Practical Nurse, LPN - HIGHER RATES!!

Middletown Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare•Middletown, NY

About The Position

Middletown Park Rehabilitation & Healthcare is a 230-bed skilled nursing facility providing short-term rehabilitation, subacute, and long-term healthcare services. The facility describes its mission as delivering high-quality care with respect and compassion through a team approach focused on personalized goals. The Licensed Practical Nurse provides daily support to unit leadership and responds to resident and family needs within the LPN scope of practice. The role uses nursing judgment and skills to prioritize and deliver direct resident care, administer treatments and medications, observe residents for effects, and promote safety and quality. The LPN collaborates with the care team on care-plan updates and pertinent findings, monitors and documents vitals, treatments, and resident responses, and oversees CNA care assignments and activities. Full-time and part-time schedules are offered; every other weekend is required. Per-diem availability is described as very limited. The advertised pay is $34.97–$38.87 per hour. The facility advertises excellent benefits, including Aetna health benefits beginning on the first day of the month after hire.

Requirements

Graduate of an approved school of Nursing.
Current New York LPN license in good standing.
Dedicated to providing extraordinary, clinically sound, and compassionate care.
Cooperative, caring, and enthusiastic approach that supports an atmosphere conducive to rehabilitation and optimal resident health.
Genuine interest in helping ill, injured, disabled, elderly, and sometimes challenging residents.
Excellent communication, customer service, and organizational skills.
Ability to work under pressure and harmoniously with all staff.
Every other weekend availability for full-time and part-time schedules.

Responsibilities

Provide daily support to unit leadership and respond appropriately and promptly to resident and family needs within the LPN scope of practice.
Use the nursing process, judgment, and skills to set priorities for quality direct resident care and make decisions that promote resident safety and care quality.
Perform or administer standard nursing treatments and medications and observe residents for desired or unwanted effects.
Communicate and collaborate with appropriate care-team members to revise or update the Nursing Care Plan and share pertinent findings, including lab or test results, incidents, and concerns.
Monitor and document vital signs, treatments administered, and residents’ responses.
Prepare, organize, oversee, monitor, and evaluate resident-care delivery by CNA assignments and activities, considering resident needs and personnel competency.