LPN

Full and Part-time

Wage DOE: $32.80-$44.14

General Purpose

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide direct nursing care to the residents.

Essential Duties

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position.

However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform.

The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

Administrative Functions

• Direct the day-to-day functions of the nursing assistants in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care facility.

• Ensure that all nursing personnel assigned to you comply with the written policies and procedures established by this facility.

• Cooperate with other resident services when coordinating nursing services to ensure that the resident's total regimen of care is maintained.

• Periodically review the resident's written discharge plan.

Participate in the updating of the resident's written discharge plan as required.

• Assist in planning the nursing services portion of the resident's discharge plan as necessary.

• Admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required.

• Complete accident/incident reports as necessary.

• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary.

• Agree not to disclose assigned user ID code and password for accessing resident/facility information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.

• Agree not to disclose resident's protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.

• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility's information system.

Charting and Documentation

• Complete and file required recordkeeping forms/charts upon the resident's admission, transfer, and/or discharge.

• Receive telephone orders from physicians and record on the Physicians' Order Form.

• Transcribe physician's orders to resident charts, treatment/care plans, as required.

• Chart nurses' notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident, as well as the resident's response to the care.

• Fill out and complete accident/incident reports.

Submit to Director as required.

• Chart all reports of accidents/incidents involving residents.

Follow established procedures.

• Record new/changed diet orders.

Forward information to the Food Services Department.

• Report all discrepancies noted concerning physician's orders, diet change, charting error, etc., to the Nurse Supervisor.

• Ensure that appropriate documentation concerning unauthorized discharges is entered in the resident's medical record in accordance with established procedures.

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