Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

The Health Center at Standifer Place; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Benefits Package

Job summary

The Health Center at Standifer Place in Chattanooga, TN is hiring Full Time LPNs for day and night shifts. Wages range from $27.50 to $33 per hour, based on employment status (full time with benefits or PRN without benefits), shift and experience. SAME DAY PAY AND ONLINE SELF SCHEDULING are offered.

Our LPNs provide resident care using the nursing process in assessment, planning and implementation. They work under current standards of practice and facility policies, supporting the center’s

Qualifications

• Graduate from a nursing program accredited by the State.
• Maintains a current unencumbered license to practice in the state where employed.
• Seeks opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Attends continuing education offerings and contributes to ongoing education of partners under supervision.

Responsibilities

• Work with the interdisciplinary care team to assess and develop/revise individualized plans of care.
• Maintain open communication with patients and families.
• Encourage patient/family participation in decision making.
• Supervise nursing partners and assign duties as needed.
• Make rounds with attention to high-acuity patients.
• Monitor units to ensure nursing care per policies and notify staff/families of condition changes.
• Assist with medications, treatments, admissions, and orders as required.
• Supervise and orient new nursing staff.

Skills

LPN

Nursing process

Communication

Teamwork

Organization

Education

Licensed Practical Nurse

State licensure in employed state

Professional growth mindset

Continuing education/mentoring

Job description

Licensed Nurses: Wage ranging from $27.50 - $33/hr- based on employment status (full time with benefits or PRN without benefits), shift and experience.

SAME DAY PAY AND ONLINE SELF SCHEDULING!

Now Hiring Full Time, Day and Night Shift.

LPN Summary:

Our LPNs provide resident care by utilizing the nursing process in assessment, planning and implementation of care. They exhibit organizational abilities related to work flow and prioritizing resident care needs. They use current standards of practice and follow current facility policy and procedures while providing resident care. They support the mission of The Health Center at Standifer Place and exemplifies The Better Way through leadership and demeanor. They represent the center in a positive manner both in the medical community and in the community as a whole.

Education and Training:

• Graduate from a nursing program accredited by the State.
• Maintains a current unencumbered licensed to practice in the state where employed
• Seeks opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Attends continuing education offerings and through teaching and mentoring, contributes to the ongoing education of partners under his/her supervision

Job Knowledge and Capabilities:

• Our LPNs are responsible for maintaining clinical competency as evidenced by application of integrated nursing knowledge and skills, leadership and communication skills.
• Utilize the nursing process in assessment, planning and implementing care.
• Exhibit organizational ability related to work flow, by prioritizing to meet the patient’s care need.
• Integrate current standards of practice as well as local, state, and federal regulations related to nursing services in the care of patients.
• Practice continuous quality improvement thinking and problem solving skills

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working with the interdisciplinary care team, to assure accurate patient assessment and to develop/revise individualized plans of care.
• Maintains open and ongoing communication with patients and families.
• Provide opportunity and encouragement for patients and their families to participate in decision making.
• Assure that nursing partners have been assigned duties
• Make rounds, with specific attention to high acuity patients
• Monitor unit/units to ensure that appropriate nursing care (according to established policies and procedures) is being provided and that the medical staff and families are being notified of changes in patients condition
• Assume responsibility for assisting with medications and treatments as needed.
• Assist with admitting patients and processing of medical staff orders as required.
• Assist with the supervision, and orientation of new nursing partners
• Assures the personal dignity and physical safety of each patient. Assist patients to attain the highest level of self-care possible.
• Supervise nursing partners as assigned.
• Carry out personnel disciplinary action(s) promptly and effectively as stated in personnel policies and amendments.
• Maintains the security of the premises and direct unauthorized persons coming on the premises to leave. Calls security for assistance as needed.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.
• Relieve other shifts if needed
• Ability and willingness to be assigned work on different units according to staffing needs
• Ability to work in settings were patients’ needs, actions, and responses to others are widely varied, where unpredictable reactions and/or emergencies occur, and where your immediate, professional and compassionate action is required.

*Generous Benefits Package available for full-time Licensed Practical Nurses.