Per Diem LPN

RNs and LPNs  Reports to :

• Supervisor  Position :   - Responsible for day-to-day resident and nursing care on the unit.   - Must be a role model of customer service principles.  - Consistently monitors and implements quality improvement efforts.  - Ensures that the unit functions according to accepted facility quality standards.  - Assumes responsibilities of the Charge Nurse in his / her absence.  Qualifications :   - Possess a valid and current RN or LPN / LVN state license.  - Gerontological nursing experience preferred.   - Possesses verbal and written communication skills.  - Ability to supervise nursing staff.  - Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend and squat for prolonged periods.  - Ability to push and pull objects and lift and carry up to 20 pounds unassisted on a frequent basis (occasionally up to 50lbs, unassisted).  - Full use of gross and fine motor of the upper and lower extremities (I.e., treatments, dressing changes, medications, administration, writing notations, operating bed wheel locks, etc.).   - Ability to read thermometers, charts and testing equipment.  Responsibilities :   - Participates in the day-to-day resident care activities.  - Provides for the delivery of professional nursing care in accordance with state licensure laws (I.e. resident conditions, treatments, tracheotomy care, tube feedings, IVs, etc.).   - Ensures compliance with federal, state, and facility guidelines that govern the nursing center.  - Ensures that the resident care policies and procedures are followed by nursing service personnel in compliance with each facility Quality Standards.  - Continually observes and assesses residents on the assigned unit and makes appropriate nursing decisions.  - Completes and / or assures completion of required forms (I.e., nursing assessment, medication administration record, treatment records, pressure ulcer and wound / skin condition evaluation reports, Medicare documentation, physicians’ orders, acuity trends, etc.).  - Identifies resident care problems and concerns, contributes to short term goal-setting and nursing approaches on the care plan.
• Informs and includes residents in their plan of care (I.e., medications, treatments, etc.).  - Ensures that nursing care approaches are communicated to and implemented by nursing unit staff.
• Communicates with nursing staff throughout the shift.  - Recognizes resident / health care facility situations, problem-solves, and communicates to the appropriate individual(s).  - Ensures that medications and controlled substances are administered and documented in accordance with state regulations and facility policies and procedures.  - Communicates significant changes in residents’ condition to physicians and, if appropriate, to family.  - Ensures effective documentation of residents’ status, including the resident record, shift-to-shift report, accident / incident report, alert charting, etc.

Or any other charting mechanism utilized by the health care facility.  - All other duties reasonably assigned.  Safety :