LPN - Oakridge

PIONEER HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT•Ferndale, MI

About The Position

The Licensed Practical Nurse provides quality nursing care to residents while promoting their rights, dignity, freedom of choice, individuality, comfort, privacy, and well-being. The LPN follows individualized care plans, contributes observations to care planning, works with other healthcare team members to assess needs and plan, implement, and modify care, and evaluates interventions. The role includes observing and documenting changes in residents’ conditions, administering medications, fluids and treatments as ordered, monitoring vital signs, collecting specimens, performing routine laboratory tests, and notifying physicians of diagnostic results. The LPN also attends to residents’ personal care and mobility needs, supervises nurses’ aides and assistants, supports skin integrity and a safe, clean environment, responds to call bells and inquiries, and helps orient residents and families. The position requires accurate and confidential documentation, communication with residents, families, visitors and staff, adherence to safety and infection-control procedures, timely completion of facility training, and other duties as requested.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) School of Nursing.
Current LPN license in the State of Michigan in good standing.
Current BLS certification.
Ability to read, write, and understand English.
Interpersonal and communication skills to work with residents and families, calm fears, and exchange patient information with facility professional staff.
Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment and independently.
Ability to gather and assess patient information from a variety of sources in a timely manner and relay accurate information to professional staff.
Basic keyboard familiarity and ability to use facility information and electronic medical record software or systems as required.
Ability to perform essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.

Nice To Haves

One year of clinical nursing experience in a long-term care setting is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide nursing care that maintains residents’ comfort, privacy, dignity, rights, freedom of choice, individuality, and well-being.
Follow residents’ individualized care plans and contribute information and observations to the care-planning process.
Report suspected abuse, rights violations, environmental deficiencies, and missing personal belongings according to established procedures.
Help maintain a safe, neat, clean, and homelike environment.
Supervise nurses’ aides and assistants.
Work with the healthcare team to assess resident needs, plan and modify care, implement interventions, and evaluate outcomes.
Observe residents and document and report changes in their conditions, including adverse reactions to medications or treatments.
Administer prescribed medications, intravenous fluids and medications, and ordered treatments; monitor and document their effects.
Measure, record, and monitor vital signs.
Collect blood, urine, and sputum samples and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Notify physicians of diagnostic test results.
Document care completely and clearly, and maintain the confidentiality of patient information.
Assist residents with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, toileting, incontinence care, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transfers, ambulation, range of motion, communication, and other individual needs.
Help maintain residents’ skin integrity through changing, turning, repositioning, and applying moisturizers as appropriate.
Answer residents’ call bells promptly and courteously.
Help orient residents and their families to the nursing home and unit upon admission or transfer.
Lift, move, and transport residents using proper body mechanics or lifting devices.
Communicate and interact effectively and tactfully with residents, visitors, families, peers, and supervisors.
Use supplies and linen carefully and follow charge procedures for resident charge items.
Follow safety and infection-control procedures, including hand washing, use of disposable gloves when indicated, and proper disposal of soiled materials.
Walk extensively while making rounds and transport residents within the facility.
Respond to inquiries and requests within established time frames and policies.
Complete mandatory facility training in a timely manner and perform other duties as requested.