HM LVN; HC

Overview

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Since 1972, The Hallmark has been the trusted name in upscale retirement living in Houston’s prestigious Galleria/Tanglewood area. As the oldest Life Plan Community in the region, we’re a not-for-profit community operated by Brazos Presbyterian Homes, Inc., dedicated to enhancing the lives of older adults of all faiths. We offer luxurious independent living, combined with a seamless continuum of care including assisted living, memory support, skilled nursing, and rehabilitation all on a single campus.

We are seeking a candidate with a strong positive attitude toward customer service to act as a LVN in our Healthcare Facility. This person will have a genuine interest in working with older adults and be able to engage, motivate, and support both residents and fellow team members. The ideal candidate is dependable, compassionate, and aligned with our values of respect, excellence, and community.

Creativity, teamwork, and a drive to exceed expectations are key traits we’re looking for as we work together to fulfill our mission of uplifting the lives of those we serve.

• Provide daily supervision to assigned staff and directly provides nursing care to residents in healthcare.
• Assesses the resident upon admission, discharge, transfer, change of condition, and on an ongoing basis for nursing needs and completes required record keeping forms/charts within the LVN licensure standards. Initiates the individual plan of care based on established health care goals, physicians orders and nursing assessments with input from residents, guardians, family members or other responsible parties to establish goals to achieve the residents optimal level of functioning.
  
  Orients new residents/family members as necessary.
• Assists residents with Activities of Daily Living (ADL), family/social activities and actively promotes independent life-style of residents.
• Responds to residents call system promptly and courteously.
• Responsible for identification of resident medical and behavioral changes and assisting with development and monitoring of care plans and documenting response of each resident to care provided.
• Provides daily report to the Director of Nurses and/or Charge Nurse concerning community conditions, associate performance, resident conditions, and needs for nursing supplies.
• Consistently demonstrates hospitality behavior and the core values of quality, respect, service and integrity.
• Receives verbal orders from attending/alternate physicians, charts on physicians order sheet and follows established procedures to facilitate timely implementation of physician orders, notifying physician of auto stop orders on any medications and lab results.
• Notifies the attending physician and supervisor/administrator when a resident is discharged without approval. Assures that appropriate documentation is made in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Reports all discrepancies of physicians’ orders, diet and charting to Director of Nursing.
• Notifies physician, family/responsible party, and DON/Executive Director of resident, family, or staff incidents. Completes appropriate resident assessments, resident, visitor/family, or employee incident report forms, and charts in the resident medical record on all such occurrences in accordance with facility policy and procedure.
• Provides nursing care according to physician’s orders and in conformance with recognized nursing practice, established standards, and administrative policies.
• Ensures preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative services to residents and assists in the coordination of nursing care with care rendered by other disciplines.
• Makes rounds with physicians, assists in examinations and/or treatment of residents and carries out orders.
• Assures residents rights to fair and equitable treatment, determination, individuality, privacy, property, and civil rights, including the right to wage a complaint, are followed by all department personnel.
• Accurately administers prescribed medications, supervises the continuity of nursing care, responds to changes in medical…