Part Time LPN

Glenwood Behavioral Health Hospital; Danville (PA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

Glenwood Behavioral Health Hospital in Danville, PA is seeking a part-time LPN to work two 12-hour shifts per week (7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.).

The nurse will monitor patient health, administer basic care, document progress, and collaborate with the care team to meet patients' needs while ensuring safety and quality of care. The role requires graduation from an accredited nursing program, an active LPN/LVN license, and CPR plus de-escalation training (First aid may be required).

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program is required.
• One or more years of nursing experience in the facility's clinical area is preferred.
• Current LPN/LVN license as required by state.
• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training provided on hire).
• First aid may be required depending on state or facility requirements.

Responsibilities

• Monitor patient health and provide basic care using the nursing process within LPN/LVN scope.
• Model professional behavior and emphasize patient safety in interactions with patients and families.
• Collaborate with the care team to meet patients' physical, psychosocial, age, developmental, and cultural needs and address complaints.
• Provide comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions from the care plan.
• Progress patients toward wellness and document responses and outcomes.
• Report changes and concerns to RNs and physicians; communicate effectively with patients and staff.
• Ensure safe medication delivery per policies and physician orders.
• Maintain professional nursing standards per facility and external guidelines.
• Document patient symptoms, responses, and progress accurately and thoroughly.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Nursing experience

CPR certification

De-escalation training

First aid certification

Education

Graduation from an accredited nursing program

Job description

Shifts Available

Part Time LPN 7a-7:30p 2 12 hour shifts per week (24 hours total)

Acadia Healthcare and Geisinger Health have partnered to establish a state-of-the-art, 96-bed behavioral health hospital in Danville, PA.

Geisinger Behavioral Health Center Danville will serve pediatric and adult patients, offering inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient programming, and ECT services.

It will also serve as a teaching hospital for students and residents of Geisinger’s College of Health Sciences.

This facility will help meet the urgent need for accessible, high-quality psychiatric care in the region, expanding capacity to support patients with diverse mental health needs.

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.

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.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.

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