LPN Full-time Nightshift
About The Position
The LPN is responsible for providing care to clients, which includes administering medication, taking vital signs, and assessing medical needs. The role involves assisting with client admissions and discharges, recording observations, and reporting to the medical team. The LPN will compassionately interact with clients to encourage engagement in treatment, maintain a safe and sanitary environment, and attend required staff trainings and meetings. Responsibilities also include communicating with the pharmacy, completing nursing admissions (intake surveys, blood draws, TB testing, GeneSight swabbing), and adhering to policies regarding client information protection, including alcohol-drug client confidentiality and HIPAA.
Requirements
- Current unrestricted licensure in TN (as required by facility) as an LPN.
- Able to read, analyze, and interpret policies and directions, and present information effectively, both orally and written
- Ability to work with both chemically dependent and individuals in psychiatric care in a non-judgmental, compassionate fashion
- Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with other staff as well as with referral sources
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions from a wide variety of data and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with people in recovery and/or in mental health treatment a plus
Responsibilities
- Assisting with the taking and recording of daily client vital signs and assessments
- Administering medications and treatments as per provider protocol
- Assisting with client admissions and discharges
- Recording client observations and reporting to the medical team as needed
- Compassionately interacting with the client population to encourage engagement in treatment
- Maintain a safe and sanitary environment
- Attending staff trainings and meetings as required by the employer
- Communicating with the pharmacy as needed
- Completing client nursing admissions not limited to: intake surveys, blood draws, TB testing, GeneSight swabbing
- Follows all policies and procedures with regard to client information protection, including alcohol-drug client confidentiality and HIPAA
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401k Match
- Paid-Time Off
- Sick Time
- Holiday Pay
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
