TEMP Licensed Vocational Nurse - $40hr
About The Position
Starlite Recovery Center is hiring a temporary Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) in Center Point, Texas. This is a 13-week assignment with the opportunity to convert to a full-time employee after the assignment. The role is not benefit-eligible, is not an agency contract, and does not include travel stipends or travel reimbursements. The position is scheduled for 36 hours per week at $40 per hour, with day or night shifts from 6:00 to 6:00. The LVN provides nursing care within the scope and standards of nursing practice, applicable state Nurse Practice Act regulations, and facility and corporate policies and procedures. The nurse is expected to maintain a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude and prioritize patient safety. Starlite Recovery Center, located in Center Point, Texas, has provided addiction and co-occurring mental health treatment since 1957. It offers residential and outpatient care and medically supervised detoxification for adults, as well as a specialty program for female adolescents. Treatment includes individual, group, family, and experiential therapies.
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 in the clinical area of service provided by the facility is preferred.
- First aid may be required based on state or facility.
Responsibilities
- Monitor patient health and provide basic care using the nursing process and the LVN scope of practice to carry out care-plan objectives and goals.
- Model customer-service expectations and demonstrate urgency around patient safety.
- Collaborate with others to meet patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs; acknowledge and work to resolve customer complaints when needs are unmet.
- Provide for patients’ basic comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions identified in their care plans.
- Apply appropriate interventions to support patients’ progress toward wellness and maintenance of wellness.
- Discuss care with patients, listen to their concerns, and report changes in status or 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 and procedures, 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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