LPN Admissions

Acadia Healthcare; Alexandria (LA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Longleaf Behavioral is seeking a dedicated Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for the Admissions team to support the admissions process in a mental health setting. This role emphasizes empathy, collaboration, and patient safety as core duties and requires current LPN/LVN licensure with CPR/De-escalation certification.

The position is based in Alexandria, LA, and offers opportunities to work with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring smooth patient intake and accurate documentation in a supportive

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required.
• One or more years' nursing experience within clinical area preferred.
• Current LPN/LVN license as required by state.
• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire).
• First aid may be required based on state or facility and policies.

Responsibilities

• Monitor patient health and provide basic nursing care within LPN scope.
• Collaborate with team to meet patients' physical, psychosocial, age and cultural needs.
• Provide comfort and implement interventions per individualized care plan.
• Progress patient toward wellness and address ongoing care needs.
• Discuss care with patient and document status changes to RNs/doctors.
• Communicate therapeutically with patient, visitors and staff about treatment.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Continuous learning

Advocacy

Patience

Education

Graduate from accredited nursing program

Job description

Overview

FT Nights LPN Admissions Opportunity at Longleaf Behavioral!

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join our admissions team at Longleaf Behavioral. As an Admissions LPN, you will play a crucial role in ensuring a smooth and efficient admissions process for our patients. Your clinical expertise, attention to detail, and ability to collaborate with various stakeholders will contribute to delivering high-quality care. Longleaf Behavioral is a renowned healthcare facility committed to providing exceptional mental health services to our community and in Intake and Admissions, you can make a real difference in the lives of our patients.

Located about two hours northwest of Baton Rouge, Longleaf Hospital is the leading mental health and addiction treatment provider in Alexandria, Louisiana.We offer a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient services for children, adolescents, and adults of all genders.

At Acadia Healthcare, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, prescription drug plan, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, vision, dental, and voluntary short-term and long-term disability coverage. Additionally, our well-being programs encompass employee assistance programs, financial support, tuition reimbursement, and much more.

What we look for:

• Empathy and Compassion: Exceptional psych RNs have a deep sense of empathy and compassion for their patients.
• Strong Communication Skills: Effective communication is crucial in psychiatric nursing. Great psych RNs are skilled at active listening, as they need to understand their patients' thoughts, feelings, and concerns.
• Continuous Learning: The field of mental health is constantly evolving, and exceptional psych RNs embrace a mindset of continuous learning.
• Advocacy: Great psych RNs are strong advocates for their patients.
• Patience and Resilience:Mental health recovery can be a long and challenging journey, requiring patience and resilience from both patients and nurses.

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

Provide nursing care and services within the standards and scope of nursing practice, as defined within the state Nurse Practice Act regulations, policies, procedures and protocols, as well as facility and corporate policies and procedures. Demonstrate a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers at all times. Recognize that patient safety is a top priority.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Monitor patient health and administer basic care utilizing the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice in carrying out care plan objectives and goals.
• Role model expectations related to customer service and demonstrates a sense of urgency related to the importance of patient safety.
• Collaborate with others to ensure that patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental and cultural needs are met and when they are not met, acknowledges and works to resolve customer complaints.
• Provide for the basic comfort of patient, implement nursing interventions identified in the plan of care that is individualized to their needs.
• Apply appropriate interventions to progress the patient towards wellness and address maintenance of wellness.
• Discuss the care provided with patient and listen to their concerns. Report status changes and concerns to registered nurses and doctors.
• Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patient, visitors, coworkers and others involved in the patient's treatment in an effective manner.
• Provide for the safe delivery of medication in accordance with policies and procedures, physicians orders and/or current practice.
• Maintain standards of professional nursing practice in accordance with facility policy and procedures, other external governing and credentialing bodies, performance improvement standards and psychiatric nursing standards.
• Responsible for thorough, accurate reporting and documentation of the patient symptoms, responses and progress.

OTHER FUNCTIONS:

• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required.

One or more years' of nursing experience within clinical area of service provided by facility preferred.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

Current LPN/LVN license as required by state.

CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).

First aid may be required based on state or facility.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

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