LPN Full Time

PACS Group•North Royalton, OH

About The Position

The LPN provides assigned residents with routine daily nursing care and services in accordance with each resident’s assessment and care plan, facility policies and procedures, and supervisor direction. The role supports residents’ health, safety, comfort, personal care, and daily needs, while maintaining accurate records and protecting confidential health information. The position includes welcoming and assisting residents with room arrivals, transfers, and discharges; monitoring and reporting changes in residents’ conditions; assisting with personal hygiene, meals, mobility, and medical preparations; performing assigned nursing and restorative procedures; and promptly reporting incidents, complaints, safety concerns, and suspected abuse or privacy violations. The employee works cooperatively with nursing and other facility personnel. This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Must possess at least a 10th-grade education.
Must be a licensed Certified Nursing Assistant in accordance with state laws.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, and to present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
Ability to apply fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to solve practical problems with limited standardization and interpret written, oral, diagram, or schedule instructions.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including occasionally lifting or moving up to 25 pounds and regularly sitting, standing, walking, talking, reading, or hearing.
Prolonged use of a desktop or laptop computer and frequent use of office equipment, including copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.

Nice To Haves

CPR certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify residents before administering treatments or serving meals, as necessary.
Use only facility-authorized abbreviations and record information accurately and descriptively in flow sheets, notes, charts, and other records.
Report changes in residents’ conditions, accidents, incidents, complaints, grievances, injuries of unknown source, skin breakdown, and allegations of abuse or misappropriation of property to the appropriate supervisor.
Protect residents’ confidential and protected health information and report suspected or known unauthorized disclosure or access to the facility information system.
Perform only nursing care procedures and use only equipment for which the employee has been trained; report defective equipment.
Prepare residents’ rooms and assist residents with arrival, orientation, personal belongings, room transfers, discharge, and transportation to or from vehicles and facility areas.
Help maintain a warm, calm, and positive environment and participate in nursing reports and regularly scheduled meetings with nursing personnel.
Make beds, provide extra covers as requested, and keep residents dry by changing wet or soiled gowns, clothing, and linens.
Measure and record residents’ temperatures, pulses, respirations, weights, and other data as instructed.
Check residents routinely, answer calls promptly, and ensure personal care needs are met; frequently check residents unable to call for help.
Assist residents with meals, identify food arrangements when needed, record food and fluid intake, report changes in eating habits, maintain clean and filled water pitchers, and provide after-meal care.
Assist residents with dental and mouth care, bathing, grooming, dressing, and undressing.
Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents using beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, and lifts.
Assist residents in preparing for medical tests and physical examinations, perform special treatments as instructed, and carry out restorative and rehabilitative procedures as directed.
Observe disoriented and comatose residents and record and report data as instructed.
Immediately notify the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse if a resident leaves or is missing from the facility.
Follow policies concerning exposure to blood and body fluids and report occupational exposures to infectious materials or hazardous chemicals.
Follow work assignments and schedules, cooperate with facility personnel, and notify the facility when late or absent.
Honor residents’ refusal of treatment and report refusal requests to a supervisor.
Assist with evacuation of residents during emergencies when necessary.