Day Shift Long-Term Care Nurse; RN​/LPN - FTE

Location

Avera Morningside Heights Care Center

Regular

Primarily days with rotating weekends and holidays (United States of America)

Job Satisfaction:
Each day you will positively impact each patient you serve by providing direct resident care.

Positive Work Environment:
Be part of an organization where we practice the mission in our daily operations and demonstrate our pride by delivering excellent care.

7:00 am – 3:30 pm, 16 hours every two weeks (0.2 FTE), every fourth weekend, holiday rotation.

RN Pay: $41.29 – $56.41 per hour.

LPN Pay: $24.86 – $35.84 per hour.

Delivers nursing care by developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to residents, families, and friends to understand residents conditions, medications, and self‑care skills; noting changing conditions and needs; re‑evaluating care objectives.

Registered Nurse (RN) – Board of Nursing; an active license in the state of practice.

1–3 years’ experience working in a clinical or long‑term care environment.

The Licensed Practical Nurse in Long Term Care is accountable for providing each resident with professional nursing care, assessment, and evaluations in their scope of practice.

• Performs all licensed practical nursing functions and services as directed by the Registered Nurse to all residents.
• Completes assessments on residents, makes appropriate interventions, applies knowledge, prioritizes resident care, uses the nursing process (assess, plan, implement, evaluate).
• Complies with all pharmaceutical policies and procedures, ensures that all medications and treatments are given safely and accurately in accordance with the physician’s orders.
• Participates in the care planning process and assures that resident care is implemented consistently and appropriately to the age of those served.
• Initiates and updates plan of care as appropriate.
• Complies with standards of professional documentation.
• Communicates and manages the delivery of resident care, ensures quality care is provided.
• Facilitates conflict management while respecting diversity of people, their strengths and ideas.
• Guides neighborhood staff in meeting the needs of the residents, practicing routines based on residents’ needs.
• Participates in physician rounds, communicates changes in resident condition to the physician utilizing SBAR communication tool.
• Processes and transcribes physician’s orders and implements according to facility policy.
• Functions within the scope of the Nurse Practice Act, utilizing recognized standards of clinical practice, as defined by the State of MN.
• Complies and enforces facilities staffing policies.
• Assists with data collection for quality functions, assists with performance improvement activities.
• Seeks educational opportunities, shares knowledge with others, assists with orientation of new staff.
• Demonstrates appropriate decision‑making skills.
• Maintains competency with operational equipment.
• Investigates incidents, patient/family complaints and makes immediate report to the VP of Resident Care or Administrator on‑call.
• Administers medications according to facility policy, competent in Pyxis medication administration system.
• Assists in discharge planning and education.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily, including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.