LPN PRN SUD

Blue Ridge Mountain Recovery Center • Ball Ground, GA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Blue Ridge Mountain Recovery in Ball Ground, Georgia, is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse to provide nursing care and services within the scope of practice defined by state Nurse Practice Act regulations and applicable facility and corporate policies, procedures, and protocols. The role emphasizes compassionate, professional customer service and patient safety. The position offers day and night shifts in 12-hour blocks: 6:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.–6:30 a.m. The employee must be able to attend a full week of orientation during daytime hours.

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.
• Ability to attend a full week of orientation during daytime hours.

Nice To Haves

• One or more years of nursing experience in the clinical area served by the facility is preferred.
• First aid may be required, depending on state or facility.

Responsibilities

• Monitor patient health and provide basic care using the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice, supporting care-plan objectives and goals.
• Model customer-service expectations and respond with urgency to patient-safety concerns.
• Collaborate with others to meet patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs, and work to resolve customer complaints.
• Provide for patients’ basic comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions in the plan of care.
• Apply appropriate interventions to support progress toward wellness and maintenance of wellness.
• Discuss care with patients, listen to their concerns, and report changes in status and concerns to registered nurses and doctors.
• Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, coworkers, and others involved in treatment.
• Deliver medications safely in accordance with policies and procedures, physicians’ orders, and current practice.
• Maintain professional nursing standards in accordance with facility policies and procedures, external governing and credentialing bodies, performance-improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
• Thoroughly and accurately report and document patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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