LVN/LPN (Overnight)

Position Summary: The LVN/LPN will provide patient care and assist in the collection of data during the assessment process, within their scope of practice, under the direction of an RN, mid-level practitioner, licensed physician, or supervisor at all times. Essential Job Functions: * Informing personnel (i.e.
UR, psychiatry, dietician) of new admissions when appropriate. * Administering and documenting vital signs, CIWAs, collects data for fall assessments/precautions, seizure precautions, suicidal/homicidal assessments, pain scales, anxiety scales, craving scales, standard and infection control precautions adding co-signers as necessary. * Observation, documentation, audit functions, education, and record keeping of all observed/inventoried/destroyed/prescribed medications. * Assessment of patients with addiction and mental health conditions and assisting in ascertaining clinical medication management with Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Psychiatrist, and Medical Doctor. * Administering medications via oral, sublingual, inhalation, auricular, topical, intramuscular, subcutaneous, vaginal, and rectal routes as ordered. * Entering medication orders into the electronic medical record. * Manages the Medication Administration Record, documenting administration, efficacy, and first response. * Collaborates with staff in assessing patient, family age-specific nursing needs and develops plan of care for complex high-risk patients. * Provide assistance to Utilization Review in communicating pertinent nursing information. * Designs teaching programs for patients/families and provides assistance to staff in program implementation. * Work closely with physicians to provide education and counseling for clients and other organizational health care providers on optimal use of medicines (e.g., proper use, avoidance of over medication). * Provide nursing care adapted to the individual patient needs based on the nursing process, which includes data collection, planning, implementation and evaluation. * Direct patient care, including the reporting of observed changes in mental status and/or physical condition, response to emergencies, safety risks. * Documents nursing incidents and medication errors. * Oversees the medication management system that includes but not limited to, medication planning, storage, ordering and transcribing, administration, monitoring and evaluation. * Verifies the integrity of and controls medications brought into the organization by the client, their families, and licensed independent practitioners. * Systemically collect, record and analyze data and other relevant interactive social systems, including mental status, special precautions (suicidality, homicidally, elopement); physical problems/medical acuity (withdrawal and nutritional needs); and ethnic concerns (social, religious, or cultural needs). * Uses assessment data to identify problem list and other interactive social systems. * Intervenes as guided by the treatment plan to implement appropriate interventions that promote, maintain, or restore physical and mental health, prevent illness effect rehabilitation, and restore developmental progression. * Provides health education for patients through individual and group interactions. * Recommends special precautions, as needed. * Evaluates the response of the patients to interventions in order to revise the plan, including discharge criteria. Knowledge, Education, & Experience: * Must be a graduate of an approved vocational nursing program with a current licensure from an appropriate state licensing board in good standing. * Preferred: Experience as a staff nurse, preferably in the field of chemical dependency and/or behavioral health. * Knowledge of industry standards: organization, theory, principles, and research processes, accreditation and regulatory standards, ability to assess clinical care requirements based on nursing principles, scope of practice. * One year experience preferred working in mental health, substance use, or eating disorders field.
health, substance use, or eating disorders field. * Familiar with behavior change, recovery models, and treatment methods * Knowledge of medications, indications, dosage ranges, side effects, and potential toxicity. Employment Status: Full Time Schedule: 7p-7a Sunday Work Location: Onsite - Chicago, IL Compensation: Pay Range: $27 - $38 hourly