Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Tower Behavioral Health•Muhlenberg Township, PA

12d•$28 - $37•Onsite

About The Position

Tower Behavioral Health in Reading, Pennsylvania, is seeking Licensed Practical Nurses to join its nursing team at a behavioral health facility serving adults, adolescents, and seniors. The facility provides inpatient and outpatient programs, counseling, substance use disorder treatment, and other services. The role is on the night shift and is responsible for providing professional nursing care with a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude to support a therapeutic environment, with patient safety as a priority. The LPN monitors patient health and provides basic care within the LPN/LVN scope of practice, following individualized care plans and facility policies. The nurse collaborates with patients, registered nurses, doctors, coworkers, and others involved in treatment; administers medications safely; reports changes and concerns; and maintains thorough documentation of symptoms, responses, and progress. Other duties may be assigned.

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.

Nice To Haves

One or more years of nursing experience within the clinical area of service provided by the facility is preferred.
First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.

Responsibilities

Monitor patient health and administer basic care using the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice and in accordance with 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 acknowledge and work to resolve customer complaints.
Provide for patients’ basic comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions identified in the plan of care.
Apply appropriate interventions to progress patients 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 patient treatment.
Deliver medications safely in accordance with policies and procedures, physicians’ orders, and current practice.
Maintain professional nursing practice standards in accordance with facility policies, governing and credentialing bodies, performance improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
Accurately report and document patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.