LPN - Extended Care Home Health - Day Shift

LPN needed - Extended Care Home Health - Day Shift

Job Category
:
Nursing

Requisition Number
: RNLPN
002245

• Full-Time

Allegiance HH Extended Care Northwest, Haughton, LA, USA

POSITION SUMMARY

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

Experience: Pediatric, ventilator, trach, gastrostomy feeding experience, and experience with long term care patients both adult and pediatric.

• Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
• Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
• Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
• Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
• Instruct individuals, families and other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention and childbirth, and develop health improvement programs.
• Assess the needs of individuals, families or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments to identify potential health or safety problems.
• Inform physician of patient's condition.
• Direct and coordinate infection control programs, advising and consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience.
• Assertiveness - Ability to act in a self-confident manner to facilitate completion of a work assignment or to defend a position or idea.
• Empathetic - Ability to appreciate and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
• Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
• Research Skills - Ability to design and conduct a systematic, objective, and critical investigation.
• Tactful - Ability to show consideration for and maintain good relations with others.
• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.

Education: Associate’s or Bachelor's Degree (four year college or university)

Experience: One to two years related experience

Computer

Skills:

Microsoft Office

Certificates & Licenses: LPN license, CPR Certification

Preferred: Pediatric, ventilator, trach, gastrostomy feeding experience, and experience with long term care patients both adult and pediatric.

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

• Home Health

• LPN: 1 year (Required)

• LPN (Required)
• CPR Certification (Required)

On the road

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