LPN -Assisted Living

Pay Range: Pay Range: $26.76-$32.63 plus shift differentials (pay will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position) Per Diem & Part Time - Day and Evening shifts available GENERAL SCOPE: Provides nursing care to meet the needs of residents according to resident's care plan and per Federal, State and organizational procedures. Directs and supervises the work of care staff members as assigned. Maintains the highest degree of professionalism and quality care. EDUCATION / QUALIFICATION: Graduate of an approved school of practical nursing with current New York State Practical Nursing license.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Ensures the implementation of resident care plans.
• Supervises staff to ensure that resident care plans are followed.
• Transcribes and carries out physician orders and integrates them into the resident care plans.
• Assists in providing direct personal care to residents as needed.
• Helps maintain residents at their highest level of functioning.
• Assists with therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.
• Gives medicines and treatments. Restocks medication and treatment carts at the end of each tour of duty.
• Creates staff assignments and gives verbal report.
• Communicates residents’ condition by notifying manager/director as appropriate.
• Communicates changes in residents’ conditions to all staff and families, as condition warrants. Maintains paperwork; records in residents’ medical records and gives report to on-coming shift.
• Assists with pre-admissions assessments, admissions and discharges.
• Communicates with residents’ physicians and follows orders.
• Supports facility and departmental policies.
• Maintains residents' confidentiality.
• Maintains a safe environment, conducive to positive health care and comfort, for residents and staff in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Assists in data collection related to residents’ care as directed by individual care plans and physician orders and documents per protocol.
• All other job duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE: Six (6) months to one (1) year experience as a staff nurse preferred. Long-term care or assisted living experience preferred. This description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of position scope. Jewish Home is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis [“protected class”] including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color, religion, sex, sexual identity, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law.