LPN PRN ICF- Millcreek Behavioral Health
About The Position
Millcreek of Arkansas is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join its nursing team in Fordyce, Arkansas. The role provides nursing care and services within the standards and scope of practice defined by state regulations and facility and corporate policies. The nurse supports children and adolescents ages 10–17 in the Residential Program for the Intellectually Challenged (ICF/IID), prioritizing patient safety and providing compassionate, professional care. This is a PRN position with 12-hour day, night, and weekend shifts, from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and/or 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. Flexibility across shifts is required. Millcreek Behavioral Health is a residential treatment center serving children and adolescents with mental health disorders and/or intellectual challenges through a multidisciplinary team.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Current LPN/LVN license as required by the state.
- CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.
- Flexibility to work day, night, and weekend shifts.
Nice To Haves
- One or more years of nursing experience in the clinical area served by the facility.
- First aid, which may be required based on state or facility.
Responsibilities
- Monitor patient health and provide basic care using the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice, carrying out care-plan objectives and goals.
- Model customer-service expectations and demonstrate urgency regarding patient safety.
- Collaborate with others to meet patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs, and work to resolve customer complaints.
- Provide for patients’ basic comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions identified in their plans of care.
- Apply appropriate interventions to support patients’ progress toward wellness and maintain wellness.
- Discuss care with patients, listen to their concerns, and report status changes and concerns to registered nurses and doctors.
- Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, coworkers, and others involved in treatment.
- Deliver medication safely in accordance with policies and procedures, physicians’ orders, and current practice.
- Maintain professional nursing practice standards in accordance with facility policies, external governing and credentialing bodies, performance-improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
- Accurately and thoroughly document and report patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
- Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
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