Home Health LPN Visit Nurse - Southwest Metro

Overview

With Optage Home Health, find purpose and passion in your work with a team of like-minded people focused on enriching the lives and touching the hearts of older adults. Presbyterian Homes & Services (PHS) is looking for someone like you, who is focused on living out your calling for care. YOU become part of the most important resource in our ministry—focused on helping to understand people's needs and working together to be supportive and empowering in order to build a vibrant and thriving community.

You benefit from a close-knit community-based team and a supportive organization with opportunities for movement and growth.

Presbyterian Homes & Services – Optage Home and Community Services is looking for LPN
Visit Nurses who feel called to Home Care and wish to serve older adults in the South/West Metro
within a caring Christian environment. This is a full-time, day position Monday through Friday, as well as participation in an equitable Weekend and Holiday rotation. This position serves in the south metro including but not limited to the PHS communities of Eden Pririe, Bloomington, Wayzata and surrounding areas. Our clinicians enjoy a rich workplace culture where team members are valued and supported by leadership in an environment that embraces and encourages whole person high quality care.

Key Responsibilities in this role include:

• Wound care, possibly including wound vac dressing changes, however we can teach you if you don't know how. This would also include prevention strategies (ex: offloading to prevent pressure injuries)
• Catheter changes and irrigations as ordered/PRN for indwelling and suprapubic catheters
• Medication teaching, setup, and reconciliation
• Disease management education and teaching (ex: diabetic education, fingerstick INRs, CHF education with weight and lung sound monitoring, etc.)
• Being a key member of our interdisciplinary team and keeping everyone involved in each client's care updated on any changes in status

In this position you will play a critical role in caring for older adults - not only physically, but emotionally, socially, mentally, and spiritually.

What Differentiates PHS By prioritizing the needs of our people, it changes the focus of the organization (PHS) to enabling, empowering, engaging, educating and inspiring YOU and the people we all touch. You, as a team member are able to bring your talents to your work, and to access the support needed to be set up for success. Together, we all make up who PHS is.

As a faith-based nonprofit organization, PHS considers our Christian Ministry values to be at the heart of all we do and it forms the cornerstone of our identity as an organization. We strive to reflect the love of God and define our service to you and others as an expression of God’s grace. Hiring people that value and support our community and culture is as important to us as hiring people who have the skills for the position.

Together, our team and volunteers offer their gifts and serve more than 26,000 older adults each year.
All are welcome Presbyterian Homes & Services strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for residents, guests, employees, and volunteers. Our Biblical Framework and “Love One Another” Christian ministry theme (John 13:34) guide every action and help us to focus on our Mission:
To honor God by enriching the lives and touching the hearts of older adults.

The Optage Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is responsible for the provision and monitoring of high quality clinical care and services to residents consistent with regulations and established clinical best practices. As a Home Health LPN you are relied upon for providing vital staffing support to our nursing care teams.

• Licensed Practical Nurse with current licensure with the State Board of Nursing in state(s) in which he/she practices.
• Interest in gerontological nursing, rehabilitative and restorative clinical practices.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, dependability, ability to adapt to the scheduling and staffing needs at various PHS communities.
• Demonstrated compatibility with PHS's mission and operating philosophies.
• Demonstrated…