LPN - Licensed Practical Nurse/LPN

Pay: $24 to $26 an hour

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Available shifts: 7:00am to 3:30pm, 3:00pm to 11:30pm and 11:00pm to 7:30am.

We are seeking professional Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN's) Long Term Care Nursing Facility located in Akron, Ohio. Our Nursing Home Facility offers all Nurses a wonderful place to work with an outstanding compensation package.

The nurse will demonstrate the ability to make clinical judgments in an effective and efficient manner. The nurse will demonstrate critical thinking and performance ability in the coordination of patient care. Consistently performs according to nursing standards and is accountable in managing patient care and assisting others in the management of patient care.

Responsibilities include:

– Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care in a Post Acute and Long Term Care setting.

– Performs focused interview to identify specific needs.
-Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychological changes in the patient’s condition.
-Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.
-Documents the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
-Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements.
-Monitors consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff.
-Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the facility policies and patient outcome standard.

-Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment.
– Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education
-Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
-Document’s patient’s response to nursing and other interventions.
-Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned floor/unit including establishing priorities.
-Monitors safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment.
-Participates in activities to facilitate good interpersonal communications with the chosen facility.

Requirements:

• Current LPN Licensed for the state of Ohio
• Capable and dependable Full or part time positions
• Must have a strong passion of working with Geriatric patients in a LTC setting