Licensed Vocational Nurse LVN

Licensed Vocational Nurse

The purpose of your job position is to provide each resident with routine daily nursing care in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards that govern the facility and as directed by your supervisors.

Essential duties and responsibilities include ensuring that all nursing care is provided in privacy, checking vital signs, dressing wounds, inserting catheters, listening to residents and their families, addressing questions/concerns of residents, performing accurate and detailed charting of resident progress notes, timely reporting of change in resident's condition to the nurse supervisor, assisting and supervising CNAs, ensuring equipment is in good operating order, monitoring residents that are at risk for falls, collecting lab samples, abiding with all facility policies and procedures including not disclosing user ID codes and passwords, following infection and control policies, reporting any occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, or other hazardous materials to a supervisor immediately, attending annual facility in-service training programs, and completing other assignments when requested by management.

Requirements include completion of LVN training from an accredited school or college, a valid LVN license in good standing, a valid CPR and BLS card, IV Certification is a plus, minimum of 1 year of skilled nursing experience preferred, the ability to speak, read, write and comprehend the English language, and the ability to use a computer or tablet to enter resident data.