Schedule: Per Diem Role with the following
7:00AM - 3:30PM
3:00PM - 11:00 PM
11:30PM - 7:00AM
Job Duties
Job Description
Under supervision of a Registered Nurse, Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN's) provide nursing care for patients in a skilled nursing facility, and to perform related work.
Essential Functions:
- Administers oral, intramuscular, and subcutaneous medications.
- Provides treatments including dressings, catheterization, irrigations, and enemas.
- Observes patients' symptoms, behavior, and progress, and keeps clinical records.
- Assists physicians and registered nurses as directed.
- Takes temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure.
- May perform venipuncture if certified.
- Assists in preparing and implementing individual patient care plans which may involve transcribing and carrying out doctors' orders.
- Participates in team conferences regarding patient care and medical updates.
- Assists charge nurse in laboratory procedures.
- Assists in patient education and rehabilitation.
- Maintains cleanliness of patient-care areas.
- Lifts and assists with lifting patients.
- Maintains appropriate supply of medical items.
- May assist patients in the discharge process.
- In a mental health setting, the LVN may be involved in one-on-one and group counseling.
- Prepares the Medical Administration Records (MAR) appropriately and completely, following procedure.
- Refers patients to social welfare agencies.
- May occasionally supervise nurse assistants and mental health aides.
- Participates in community education programs.
- May apply constraints to contain patients.
- May drive a vehicle to take a patient to an appointment.
- May be responsible for follow-up of patient referrals and treatment recommendations.
- May be responsible for transporting clinic supplies to designated community clinics.
- Performs administrative assignments such as filing, answering phones, typing and maintaining statistical logs for the unit.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Knowledge of:
- Principles, methods, and procedures of modern nursing care
- Techniques of administering medications and treatments
- Common medical terminology, hospital procedures, and equipment
- Psychological, emotional, social, spiritual, and recreational needs of the patient
- Business office procedures
- Telephone, office, and online etiquette
- Current technology and trends in the profession
- County Customer service objectives and strategies
Skills and Abilities to:
- Employ standard and specialized hospital techniques, procedures and routines
- Attend to the personal hygiene needs of patients
- Perform emergency first aid
- Follow oral and written directions and complete records
- Maintain patient confidentiality
- Communicate effectively with a variety of individuals representing diverse cultures and backgrounds and function calmly in challenging situations, which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact and diplomacy
- Treat County employees, representatives of outside agencies and members of the public with courtesy and respect
- Assess the patient's or customer's immediate needs and ensure receipt of needed services through personal service or making appropriate referral
- Provide prompt, efficient and responsive service
- Exercise appropriate judgment in answering questions and releasing information; analyze and project consequences of decisions and/or recommendations
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing
- Establish effective working relationships with management, employees, employee representatives and the public representing diverse cultures and backgrounds
- Provides responsive, high quality service to County employees, representatives of outside agencies and members of the public by providing accurate, complete and up-to-date information, in a courteous, efficient and timely manner
Job Types: Contract, Per diem
Pay: $50.16 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Standard shift:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Night shift
Experience:
License/Certification:
- LVN License (Required)
- BLS Certification (Required)
Work Location: On the road