LPN Evenings 3pm to 11pm Sun through Thurs

White Deer Run at Mt. Zion•Springettsbury Township, PA

About The Position

The LPN provides nursing care and services within the standards and scope of nursing practice defined by state Nurse Practice Act regulations and applicable facility and corporate policies, procedures, and protocols. The role calls for a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers, with patient safety as a top priority. White Deer Run of York at Mt. Zion is a 50-bed residential addiction treatment facility serving men age 18 and older. The facility offers medically monitored detoxification, short-term rehabilitation, and long-term rehabilitation. Its multidisciplinary behavioral health and medical team provides care focused on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual recovery, using evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy. This is a full-time position with eight-hour evening shifts, Sunday through Thursday, from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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 provide basic care using the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice to carry out care-plan objectives and goals.
Model customer-service expectations and act with 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 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, governing and credentialing bodies, performance improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
Accurately and thoroughly report and document patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.