Licensed Practical Nurse, LPN - HIGHER RATES!!

Middletown Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare•Middletown, NY

9d•$35 - $39•Onsite

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 providing 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 appropriately and promptly to resident and family needs within the LPN scope of practice. The role uses nursing processes, judgment, and skills to prioritize and deliver direct resident care and promote resident safety and care quality. The LPN administers standard nursing treatments and medications, observes residents for desired or unwanted effects, and monitors and documents vital signs, treatments, and resident responses. The LPN also communicates and collaborates with care-team members regarding care-plan updates and pertinent findings, including laboratory or test results, incidents, and concerns. The position oversees and evaluates CNA assignments and activities, taking resident needs and staff competency into account. Full-time and part-time positions are listed, with every-other-weekend availability required for part-time work. Per-diem availability is very limited. The posting advertises higher rates and benefits, including Aetna health benefits beginning on the first of the month after hire.

Requirements

Graduate of an approved school of Nursing.
Hold a current New York LPN license in good standing.
Be dedicated to providing extraordinary, clinically sound, and compassionate care.
Demonstrate cooperation, caring, and enthusiasm in creating an atmosphere conducive to rehabilitation and optimal resident health.
Have a genuine interest in helping ill, injured, disabled, elderly, and sometimes challenging residents.
Have excellent communication, customer service, and organization skills.
Work well under pressure and harmoniously with all staff.

Responsibilities

Provide daily support to unit leadership and respond appropriately and promptly to resident and family needs within the LPN scope of practice.
Use nursing processes, judgment, and skills to prioritize and deliver quality direct resident care and promote resident safety and care quality.
Perform and 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 CNA resident-care assignments and activities, considering resident needs and staff competency.