LVN​/LPN; Overnight

Position: LVN / LPN (Overnight)
Position Summary:

The LVN/LPN will provide patient care and assist in the collection of data during the assessment process, within their scope of practice, under the direction of an RN, mid-level practitioner, licensed physician, or supervisor at all times.

Essential Job Functions:

* Informing personnel (i.e. UR, psychiatry, dietician) of new admissions when appropriate.

* Administering and documenting vital signs, CIWAs, collects data for fall assessments/precautions, seizure precautions, suicidal/homicidal assessments, pain scales, anxiety scales, craving scales, standard and infection control precautions adding co-signers as necessary.

* Observation, documentation, audit functions, education, and record keeping of all observed/inventoried/destroyed/prescribed medications.

* Assessment of patients with addiction and mental health conditions and assisting in ascertaining clinical medication management with Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Psychiatrist, and Medical Doctor.

* Administering medications via oral, sublingual, inhalation, auricular, topical, intramuscular, subcutaneous, vaginal, and rectal routes as ordered.

* Entering medication orders into the electronic medical record.

* Manages the Medication Administration Record, documenting administration, efficacy, and first response.

* Collaborates with staff in assessing patient, family age-specific nursing needs and develops plan of care for complex high-risk patients.

* Provide assistance to Utilization Review in communicating pertinent nursing information.

* Designs teaching programs for patients/families and provides assistance to staff in program implementation.

* Work closely with physicians to provide education and counseling for clients and other organizational health care providers on optimal use of medicines (e.g., proper use, avoidance of over medication).

* Provide nursing care adapted to the individual patient needs based on the nursing process, which includes data collection, planning, implementation and evaluation.

* Direct patient care, including the reporting of observed changes in mental status and/or physical condition, response to emergencies, safety risks.

* Documents nursing incidents and medication errors.

* Oversees the medication management system that includes but not limited to, medication planning, storage, ordering and transcribing, administration, monitoring and evaluation.

* Verifies the integrity of and controls medications brought into the organization by the client, their families, and licensed independent practitioners.

* Systemically collect, record and analyze data and other relevant interactive social systems, including mental status, special precautions (suicidality, homicidally, elopement); physical problems/medical acuity (withdrawal and nutritional needs); and ethnic concerns (social, religious, or cultural needs).

* Uses assessment data to identify problem list and other interactive social systems.

* Intervenes as guided by the treatment plan to implement appropriate interventions that promote, maintain, or restore physical and mental health, prevent illness effect rehabilitation, and restore developmental progression.

* Provides health education for patients through individual and group interactions.

* Recommends special precautions, as needed.

* Evaluates the response of the patients to interventions in order to revise the plan, including discharge criteria.

Knowledge, Education, &

Experience:

* Must be a graduate of an approved vocational nursing program with a current licensure from an appropriate state licensing board in good standing.

* Preferred:
Experience as a staff nurse, preferably in the field of chemical dependency and/or behavioral health.

* Knowledge of industry standards: organization, theory, principles, and research processes, accreditation and regulatory standards, ability to assess clinical care requirements based on nursing principles, scope of practice.

* One year experience preferred working in mental health, substance use, or eating disorders field. health, substance use, or eating disorders field.

* Familiar with behavior change, recovery models, and treatment methods

* Knowledge of medications, indications, dosage ranges, side effects, and potential toxicity.

Employment Status:
Part-time

Schedule:

Saturdays and Sundays 7PM-7AM

Work Location:

On-site - McLean VA