Pediatric Floor RN/LPN

Indiana Fitness Works•Logansport, IN

About The Position

The Pediatric Floor RN/LPN is responsible for the total care of assigned residents on the unit and for supervising direct care staff to ensure residents’ needs are met. The role includes assessing residents, developing and updating care plans, administering and documenting medications and treatments, maintaining accurate medical and narcotic records, coordinating with medical providers and other services, and supporting residents and their families. The nurse helps maintain residents’ dignity, safety, health, and quality of life while ensuring facility policies, care standards, and infection-control procedures are followed. The position requires movement throughout the facility for most of the day and may involve moderate to heavy lifting. Shifts are 6 a.m.–2 p.m., 2 p.m.–10 p.m., or 10 p.m.–6 a.m.; employees must be able to work every other weekend. Pay is $32–$59 per hour, with the range based on nursing license, experience, and shift.

Requirements

Graduate of a School of Nursing.
Current Indiana nursing license in good standing.
Knowledge of nursing skills and practices.
Possess a health certificate or examination as required by state agencies.
Ability to maintain a professional attitude, including confidentiality, concern for others, cooperation, and conscientious use of time.
Ability to communicate verbally and in writing; ability to read and write in English.
Ability to organize, communicate with, and lead people with varied experience and training.
Integrity, leadership qualities, interest in working with people, and enthusiasm for nursing.
Understanding, patience, and tact when dealing with residents, families, visitors, and employees.
Ability to maintain good working relationships with employees, physicians, and other medically related staff.
Alertness and skill in recognizing and identifying resident symptoms, and resourcefulness in emergencies.
Ability to remain calm under stress and communicate with residents, families, personnel, and support agencies.
Ability to move throughout the facility most of the day; bending, lifting, walking, grasping, and fine hand coordination.
Ability to distinguish smells, tastes, and temperatures; discern colors; and hear and respond to pages.
Must be able to work every other weekend.

Responsibilities

Provide total care to assigned residents and supervise direct care staff to ensure residents’ needs are met.
Ensure restorative nursing care measures and ordered treatments are performed as indicated.
Help maintain each resident’s self-respect, personal dignity, and physical safety.
Communicate with nursing management about unit conditions and concerns involving staff, residents, or visitors.
Explain treatment goals and expectations to residents and their families or representatives, and seek feedback and cooperation.
Supervise and manage personnel on assigned halls or units.
Verify that medical records are properly maintained and updated.
Review nursing staff assignments to ensure duties are appropriate to staff members’ abilities, training, and scope of practice.
Assist and instruct nursing staff in special treatments and nursing care.
Ensure lab work and X-rays are completed as ordered and results are reported promptly to the physician.
Make rounds with physicians and assist with examinations as indicated.
Assess residents upon admission and as needed for concerns or changes in condition, and take necessary action, including emergency measures.
Initiate and update residents’ nursing care plans and participate in interdisciplinary care plan conferences as requested or assigned.
Secure narcotics and controlled substances; count narcotics at the beginning and end of each shift and maintain accurate records.
Ensure supplies are stocked on the unit according to facility practice.
Assist staff in providing direct resident nursing care.
Assist with discharge planning, instruct residents and family members or representatives, and assess their understanding.
Receive and provide thorough reports at shift change.
Make rounds on all residents, with careful attention to those requiring increased monitoring.
Administer and document medications at appropriate times.
Notify medical providers as necessary regarding orders and visits, and report signs and symptoms of disease or complications.
Collect information from staff about resident care problems and needs, including turning and positioning and intake and output.
Complete charting and documentation according to the facility schedule, including unusual events, changes in condition, and treatments.
Perform and support nursing measures related to hygiene, hydration, elimination, range of motion, sleep, accident and abuse prevention, infection control, socialization, self-esteem, dignity, and residents’ ability to function at their maximum level.
Assist residents in psychosocially accepting their limitations.
Assist in evaluating nursing staff supervised on the unit.
Coordinate nursing services with Dietary, Social Services, Activities, Physical Therapy, and other services.
Participate in mandatory in-service training and inform nursing staff of facility policies and procedures as indicated.
Draw blood for lab work when ordered, if applicable under facility policy.
Assist with orientation of new employees on the unit or hall as necessary.
Maintain a clean and safe environment for residents and staff and follow facility safety and infection-control policies.
Maintain confidentiality of resident information.
Review new admissions, orders, incident reports, and memos to promote timely care and implementation of interventions.
Make rounds to supervise meal service, observe residents while eating, and offer substitutes when a resident does not accept a meal.
Monitor that residents receive their ordered diets and that utility, linen, and shower rooms are orderly and clean.
Perform other duties as assigned.