Compassionate LPN: Patient-Centered Care & Team Leadership

Anchorage Rehabilitation and Wellness Center; Salisbury (MD); On-site; USD 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Anchorage Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Salisbury, MD is hiring motivated and compassionate LPNs to join our post-acute care team. As an LPN you will support residents by following the nursing process, collaborating with physicians and a multidisciplinary team.

Duties include monitoring and charting resident health, assisting with medication administration, promoting independence, ensuring infection-control practices, and maintaining resident confidentiality.

Qualifications

• Must graduate from an approved nursing program.
• Must possess and maintain a current state license as an LPN.

Responsibilities

• Identify resident care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual residents and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Monitor and chart information to ensure the health and well-being for the resident, including medication administration and overseeing staff.
• Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support to residents, friends and families.
• Promote resident independence by establishing patient care goals and teaching residents, friends and family to understand condition, medications and self-care skills.
• Assure quality of care by measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards and making or recommending adjustments.
• Resolve resident problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations and calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Protect residents and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Document resident care services by charting in resident and department records.
• Maintain resident confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and professional networks.
• Maintain cooperative relationships among health care teams by communicating information and participating in problem-solving.

Education

Graduate of an approved nursing program

Job description

Anchorage Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Salisbury, MD is hiring motivated and compassionate LPNs to join our post-acute care team. As an LPN you will support residents by following the nursing process, collaborating with physicians and a multidisciplinary team.

Duties include monitoring and charting resident health, assisting with medication administration, promoting independence, ensuring infection-control practices, and maintaining resident confidentiality.