LPN PRN Nights

SEM Haven • Milford, OH

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About The Position

The Charge Nurse works cooperatively and respectfully with elders, coworkers, families, visitors, and volunteers to create a positive environment in the home. The nurse delivers care according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines, and local, state, and federal regulations. The role promotes elders’ opportunities to engage in normal life pursuits and to improve or maintain their functioning. The Charge Nurse participates in elder-centered care and team-based management and is involved in daily activities in assigned households.

SEM Haven describes itself as an elder-centered organization focused on elder choice and as a family that includes elders, staff, and their families. The staff member’s role is to support elders with friendship and kindness so they can live as independently as they wish in their homes, treating everyone with respect. As part of the household team, the nurse may also perform tasks within their knowledge and training to maintain household life, such as assisting with food preparation and serving, tidying, removing trash, cleaning spills, transporting elders, attending household meetings or learning circles, and fulfilling simple requests.

The position requires the ability to implement and evaluate elder-care programs; patience; listening, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills; interpersonal skills; respect for people and possessions; and flexibility to modify duties for the good of the home and elders. Work in long-term care may involve shift rotation, weekend and holiday duty, unusual or impaired elder behavior, family reactions, death and dying, oversight by state surveyors, ombudsmen and federal officials, consultants and attorneys, and variable involvement of medical staff. Reasonable accommodations will be made in accordance with ADA guidelines for staff members unable to perform essential functions.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Freedom from illegal drug use and from workplace use or effects of drugs and alcohol.
• Ability to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of elder-care programs.
• Patience, listening skills, and verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills and respect for elders, coworkers, family members, doctors, volunteers, and visitors.
• Flexibility and willingness to modify duties for the overall good of the home and its elders.
• Ability to speak, read, and write English in an understandable manner.
• Ability to see and hear, or use prosthetics that enable these senses to function adequately for the job.
• Ability to move freely; regularly lift up to 25 pounds; occasionally climb or balance; regularly stoop or bend; occasionally push up to 25 pounds; regularly stand or sit and reach.

Nice To Haves

• Previous long-term care experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing care to elders according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines, and applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
• Promote elders’ opportunities to participate in normal life pursuits and improve or maintain their functioning.
• Participate in elder-centered care, team-based management, and daily life activities in assigned households.
• Treat elders, coworkers, families, visitors, and volunteers with respect, kindness, and consideration.
• Perform household tasks within the employee’s knowledge and training, including assisting with food preparation and serving, picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills, transporting elders, attending household meetings or learning circles, and fulfilling simple elder requests.
• Implement and evaluate the effectiveness of elder-care programs.
• Modify duties as needed for the overall good of the home and its elders.

What This Job Offers

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