Pediatric Floor RN/LPN

Indiana Fitness Works Inc. • Logansport, IN

4d • $32 - $59

About The Position

The Pediatric Floor RN/LPN provides and coordinates nursing care for assigned residents, supervises direct-care staff, and helps ensure residents’ safety, dignity, and care needs are met. The role includes assessing residents, administering medications and treatments, maintaining accurate records, communicating with medical providers and families, and coordinating care with other facility services. The position requires movement throughout the facility for much 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.; the employee must work every other weekend.

Requirements

• Graduate of a School of Nursing.
• Current Indiana nursing license in good standing.
• Knowledge of nursing skills and practices.
• Health certificate or examination as required by State agencies.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing and to read and write in English.
• Ability to organize, communicate with, and lead people with varied levels of experience and training.
• Professional attitude, including confidentiality, concern for others, cooperation, and conscientious use of time.
• 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, with resourcefulness in emergencies.
• Ability to remain calm under stress and communicate with residents, families, personnel, and support agencies.
• Ability to work every other weekend.
• Ability to move throughout the facility for most of the day, sometimes with moderate to heavy lifting.
• Physical abilities including bending, lifting, walking, grasping, fine hand coordination, distinguishing smells, tastes, and temperatures, discerning colors, and hearing and responding to pages.

Responsibilities

• Provide total care to assigned residents and supervise direct-care staff to ensure resident needs are met.
• Ensure restorative nursing care measures and ordered treatments are carried out.
• Support residents’ self-respect, personal dignity, physical safety, psychosocial adjustment, and maximum level of functioning.
• Communicate with nursing management about unit conditions and concerns involving staff, residents, and visitors.
• Explain treatment goals and expectations to residents and their families or representatives and seek feedback and cooperation.
• Manage or supervise personnel on assigned units and review assignments to ensure duties align with staff members’ abilities, training, and scope of practice.
• Maintain and verify resident medical records, care plans, assessments, and documentation according to facility schedules and requirements.
• Assist and instruct nursing staff in special treatments and resident care; evaluate supervised staff and help orient new employees.
• Ensure lab work and X-rays are completed as ordered and results are reported to the physician promptly; draw blood when ordered and permitted by facility policy.
• Make rounds with physicians and assist with examinations as indicated.
• Assess residents on admission and when a problem, concern, or change in condition occurs; take appropriate action, including emergency measures.
• Participate in interdisciplinary care plan conferences as requested or assigned and assist with resident discharge planning and instruction.
• Secure controlled substances; count narcotics at the beginning and end of each shift and maintain accurate records.
• Keep unit supplies stocked and assist staff with direct resident nursing care.
• Receive and give thorough shift reports and make rounds on residents, with additional attention to those requiring increased monitoring.
• Administer and document medications at appropriate times; notify medical providers as necessary about orders, visits, and signs or symptoms of disease or complications.
• Collect information from staff about resident care problems and needs, including turning and positioning and intake and output; document unusual events, changes in condition, and treatments.
• Promote resident hygiene, hydration, normal elimination and sleep patterns, range of motion, infection control, accident prevention, socialization, self-esteem, and human dignity.
• Coordinate nursing services with dietary, social services, activities, physical therapy, and other services.
• Participate in mandatory in-service training and communicate facility policies and procedures to nursing staff as indicated.
• Maintain a clean and safe environment; follow safety and infection-control policies and procedures and protect confidential resident information.
• Review new admissions and orders, incident reports, and memos to support timely care and implementation of interventions.
• Supervise meal service, observe residents while eating, offer meal substitutes when needed, and monitor compliance with prescribed diets.
• Monitor utility, linen, and shower rooms for order and cleanliness.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed