LPN 12 Hour Shift - Flexible days

Provide routine care, observe residents' health, assist doctors, and communicate instructions to residents regarding medication, home-based care, and preventative lifestyle changes.

Job Responsibilities :

• Help implement and evaluate care plans for individual care of each resident.
• Maintains appropriate nursing service objectives, goals, and standards of nursing practices.
• Receive, transcribe, and implement physician's orders in a timely manner.
• Reports required condition changes, events to appropriate parties.
• Administers medication / treatments as prescribed.
• Monitors infection control compliance.
• Investigates / documents accidents / incidents.
• Record a resident's medical history accurately
• Take and record measurements of blood pressure, temperature, heart rate etc.
• Observe residents under treatment to identify progress, side-effects of medications etc.
• Monitor residents' condition including fluid intake and output and compose residents' charts
• Assist ailing residents in daily necessary activities such as eating, bathing etc.
• Administer injections, prescribed medications, enemas etc., clean and dress wounds and assist with other basic medical care tasks
• Collect samples for lab testing as assigned
• Provide emotional and psychological support when needed
• Communicate with residents' family or friends to provide advice, comfort and release instructions

Job requirements :