BT LVN Healthcare - PRN

BT LVN Healthcare - PRN

Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor has been a trusted name in senior living for over 50 years, offering a dynamic and vibrant community just minutes from Houston's renowned Museum District and Texas Medical Center. As a faith-based, not-for-profit Life Plan Community, we are committed to enhancing the lives of older adults by providing a continuum of care that includes independent living, assisted living, memory support, and skilled nursing.

We are proud to have been recognized as Best of the Best in Texas for the past six years—an honor that reflects our unwavering commitment to excellence in service and resident care. If you're passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a supportive and mission-driven team, we invite you to explore a future with Brazos Towers.

We are seeking a candidate with a strong positive attitude toward customer service to act as a __________. 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 condition, medications or other circumstances requiring special care needs and performs first aid as required.

Provides daily supervision and leadership to assigned staff and other designated personnel in meeting the resident's needs. Demonstrates good decision making skills. Provides written evaluation and oral counseling of assigned staff.

Evaluates and monitors complex resident health status and determines the appropriate nursing intervention. Assists with developing and
-monitoring the ongoing plan of care with resident and initiates corrective action as necessary.

Orients residents and
-associates to emergency procedures and responds to all emergency…