LPN FT Nights 6:45 pm- 7 am- Float

United Church Homes • Milford, OH

25d • Onsite

About The Position

The Charge Nurse works cooperatively and respectfully with elders, coworkers, families, visitors and volunteers to create a positive and pleasant environment in the home. He or she delivers nursing care to elders according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines and local, state and federal regulations. The Charge Nurse actively promotes the elder’s opportunities for engaging in normal life pursuits and improving and/or maintaining functioning levels. The Charge Nurse is a participant in elder-centered care and team based management and is involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household(s).

The focus of SEM Haven is to be a elder-centered organization based on elder choice. SEM Haven is a family, which includes elders and staff, as well as elder families and staff families. The final goal is to provide support for each of its members. Your role as a staff member is to provide the elders of SEM Haven with the support, friendship, and most importantly, kindness, so they may live as independently as they wish to in their homes. The most important function of your position is that you treat everyone you come into contact with as a person deserving respect. No person is any more or less important than any other and all should be treated in this manner. As a member of a family team you have the additional responsibility to perform tasks as necessary to maintain life on the household. These tasks will be within your knowledge and training i.e. assist with food preparation/serving; picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills; transporting elders; attending household meetings/learning circles and fulfilling simple requests for elders.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Ability to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of elder care programs
• Patience, listening skills, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Respect for all people - elders, co-workers, family members, doctors, volunteers, and anyone who visits our home
• Respect for possessions – keeping living and work areas clean, orderly and presentable at all times
• Flexibility – willingness to modify job duties for the overall good of the home and our elders
• Ability to move freely about
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs.
• Ability to stoop/bend regularly
• Ability to push up to 25 lbs. occasionally
• Ability to stand/sit regularly
• Ability to reach regularly
• Must be able to speak, read & write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of position can be fully met.
• Freedom from illegal use of drugs and freedom from use and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace is essential.

Nice To Haves

• Previous long-term care experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing care to elders according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines and local, state and federal regulations.
• Actively promote the elder’s opportunities for engaging in normal life pursuits and improving and/or maintaining functioning levels.
• Participate in elder-centered care and team based management and be involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household(s).
• Provide support, friendship, and kindness to elders so they may live as independently as they wish to in their homes.
• Treat everyone encountered as a person deserving respect.
• Perform tasks as necessary to maintain life on the household, within knowledge and training (e.g., assist with food preparation/serving; picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills; transporting elders; attending household meetings/learning circles and fulfilling simple requests for elders).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree