LPN - Assisted Living

Pay Rate

$27.57 plus shift differentials Per Diem

General scope

Provides nursing care to meet the needs of residents according to resident's care plan and per Federal, State and organizational procedures. Directs and supervises the work of care staff members as assigned. Maintains the highest degree of professionalism and quality care.

Education / Qualification

Graduate of an approved school of practical nursing with current New York State Practical Nursing license.

Essential functions

• Ensures the implementation of resident care plans.
• Supervises staff to ensure that resident care plans are followed.
• Transcribes and carries out physician orders and integrates them into the resident care plans.
• Assists in providing direct personal care to residents as needed.
• Helps maintain residents at their highest level of functioning.
• Assists with therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.
• Gives medicines and treatments. Restocks medication and treatment carts at the end of each tour of duty.
• Creates staff assignments and gives verbal report.
• Communicates residents’ condition by notifying manager/director as appropriate.
• Communicates changes in residents’ conditions to all staff and families, as condition warrants. Maintains paperwork; records in residents’ medical records and gives report to on-coming shift.
• Assists with pre-admissions assessments, admissions and discharges.
• Communicates with residents’ physicians and follows orders.
• Supports facility and departmental policies.
• Maintains residents' confidentiality.
• Maintains a safe environment, conducive to positive health care and comfort, for residents and staff in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Assists in data collection related to residents’ care as directed by individual care plans and physician orders and documents per protocol.
• All other job duties as assigned.

Experience