Registered Nurse​/Licensed Practical Nurse - MVM

Work Unit Overview

Work Unit Overview: A Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) provides nursing and nursing related services to residents consistent with each resident's comprehensive resident assessment and plan of care. All resident care is provided in a manner that meets the resident's physical, mental and psycho social needs and enables the individual to attain or maintain the highest practicable level of functioning.

Provides supervision of health care personnel in maintaining a "homelike environment" for the residents, protects and promotes resident rights and assists the person to maintain independence and controls to the greatest extent possible.

RN or LPN assesses patient health problems and needs, develops and implements nursing care plans, and maintains medical records. Duties include administering nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May also advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. An RN/LPN oversees the work of other health care personnel as required.

• Direct or supervise nursing assistants/aides, or other healthcare personnel to ensure proper performance of duties according to health care standards and departmental policies. May supervise a particular unit.
• Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans and modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
• Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient condition. Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions. Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records, and record patients' medical information and vital signs.
• Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.

Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts; take and record temperatures, pulses, respiration, and blood pressure readings; transcribe written physicians' orders to medication and treatment records; observe and report patient's symptoms to a Physician's Assistant or Physician.

• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients (conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action).
• Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations. Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
• Assist physicians or other RNs in examinations or special procedures; catheterize patients and give enemas; provide general patient care; such as bathing, feeding, turning, and transporting patients; assist with or apply dressings; may assist in orthopedic care such as applying and removing casts, setting up and inspecting traction.
• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.

Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.

Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform laboratory tests on samples.

Communicate with other health care facilities or ancillary services regarding patient care needs.

Prepare patients and assist with administering examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.

• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Assist in providing services and care in maternal/child, and medical-surgical settings, outpatient clinics, public health clinics, and public health or mental health outreach services.
• Comply with established department, unit, hospital policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, supply inventory and utilization regulations, environmental and infection control.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Must be a graduate from an accredited nursing school with a four-year degree (preferred for RN position), and one (1) to two (2) years experience in an acute care unit. Possession of a valid Montana license as an RN or LPN. Current CPR certification required.

Must maintain a good citizen court record free of abusing, neglecting or mistreating individuals in a health care related setting.

The job requires freedom from illegal use of drugs and freedom from use and effects of drugs and alcohol in the workplace.

Persons who have been found guilty by a court of law of abusing, neglecting or mistreating individuals in a health care setting are ineligible for employment in this position.

Must pass a background check.

This job requires knowledge of RN/LPN nursing…