LPN Days

Acadia Healthcare; Salem (VA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Regis Center is seeking experienced LPNs to provide high-quality patient care in a 68-bed treatment setting in Salem, VA.

Salary starts at $24.50 per hour and increases with experience. Full-time shifts are from 7 AM to 7 PM, totaling 36 hours per week with rotating weekends and night requirements. Benefits include medical, vision, dental, and other wellness programs.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing is required.
• One or more years' nursing experience within the facility's clinical area is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor patient health and administer basic nursing care within LPN/LVN scope.
• Model customer service and maintain patient safety with urgency.
• Collaborate to meet patients' physical, biopsychosocial, age, and cultural needs; address complaints.
• Provide comfort and implement individualized care plans.
• Safely deliver medications according to orders and policy.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Graduate of accredited nursing program

Job description

Overview

Mt Regis Recovery is hiring experienced LPNs

Pay: $24.50 per hour - and up based on experience

Shift / Hours for Full-time:

7A-7P Full Time36 hours/weekRotating weekends and nights

Join the Mount Regis team and make a difference every day! Mount Regis Center is an intimate 68-bed fully accredited, licensed drug and alcohol treatment center in Salem, VA. We offer a number of empirically validated treatment methods to help our patients to the path of sobriety. We provide the following levels of care for adults 18+: detox, residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient services.

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.

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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