Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) - Full Time, AM, 12HR - Health Center

• Provides basic therapeutic, restorative, and preventive care to residents who have common, well-defined health problems.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team members including the resident and the responsible party by contributing to resident assessments and resident care plans.
• Interacts productively with physicians, families, residents, other department personnel, consultants, ancillary service providers, and community agencies.
• Provides direction, supervision, and evaluation of unlicensed personnel assigned to work with him/her in accordance with the policies and procedures of the facility.
• Performs duties effectively with minimum supervision.
• Practices within the legal definition of the California Licensed Vocational Nurse Practice Act.
• Is accountable for own practice and for the nursing care delegated to unlicensed health care providers.
• Is knowledgeable of and compliant with the federal and state regulations applicable to a practice setting.

Essential Job Duties

• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills. Contributes to resident assessments and care plans
• Admits, transfers, and discharges residents in coordination with other disciplines. Utilizes information at hand to complete the process of admission, transfer, or discharge
• Coordinates nursing services with facility and community resources
• Receives, documents, and implements physician orders
• Orders and administers medications, performs treatments, schedules tests, and other diagnostic work as ordered by physicians
• Assures that residents receive the prescribed diets. Reports resident weight variations and implements nutritional interventions as appropriate
• Documents weekly assessments focusing on care plan goal achievements following facility schedule and also documents significant occurrences in a timely manner
• Demonstrates ability to assist residents in achieving and maintaining the highest level of independence. Supervises staff and encourages resident independence and autonomy

Rate of Pay

$38.00 - $43.00 per hour

Shift

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• AM 7:00am - 7:00pm

Additional pay differentials of $1.25 per hour for the PM shift - Eligible for OT

When you enter a community managed by Life Care Services, you’ll immediately feel the warmth of our Hospitality Promises:

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• We greet you warmly, by name and with a smile.
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• We treat everyone with courteous respect.
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• We anticipate your needs and act accordingly.
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• We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
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• We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
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• We make you feel important.
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• We embrace and value our differences.
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• We ask, “Is there anything else I can do for you?” 9.
• We maintain high levels of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
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• We pay attention to details.

All Employees must be able to pass background checks (fitness for duty physical, fingerprinting, employment references) as required by a licensed residential care facility. Some of the roles in our community require that we ask about your COVID-19 vaccination status.

EOE

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