LPN - Night Shift

- Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Indiana Veteran's Home
- Facility: A 4 unit, 212 bed full-service care facility including long term care, memory care, short-term rehabilitation and senior independent living
- Duties: Administering medications and treatments, providing personal care to residents, answering calls for assistance, documenting care, assisting with new employee orientation, participating in resident care planning, transcribing physician orders, maintaining controlled substance numbers, scheduling resident appointments with physicians and other specialists, administering and recording employee health testing results
- Nonessential duties: Providing 1:1 staffing as needed, assisting with resident activities, responding to codes and providing care as needed
- Requirements: Must be licensed as a LPN in Indiana, maintain first aid, mantoux and CPR certification, ability to understand and communicate with residents, ability to use medical equipment, ability to provide safe, efficient resident care, complete all required inservice training, ability to prioritize workload, be flexible, assess residents, administer medications and treatments safely, document in a legible manner
- Supervisory Responsibilities: May assign and review work of nursing attendants, reports to the Nursing Unit Manager
- Difficulty of Work: Work involves complex judgement decisions, based on standard policies, procedures and sound nursing practices
- Responsibility: Work is of moderate complexity, requiring judgement to determine the best application of specialized knowledge
- Personal Work Relationships: Interacts with residents, professional and non-professional staff, residents' families, visitors, volunteers and staff from other facilities
- Physical Effort: Must be able to walk and stand for long periods of time, assist with lifting and transferring residents, from 100 to 500+ pounds, using a gait belt or other accepted practices, or with a mechanical device
- Working Conditions: Work is generally on a nursing care unit, may be exposed to body fluids and cleaning chemicals, may be exposed to violent residents.