Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) – Optional Sign-on Bonus or Higher reputed company in lieu of Benefits – Westminster Commons – Atlanta, GA

Job title: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Optional Sign-on Bonus or Higher reputed company in lieu of Benefits Company: Westminster Commons Job description: Job Description: Great Downtown location and benefits! General Purpose: Provide direct nursing care to the residents and supervise the day-to-day nursing activities performed by nursing assistants. Such supervision must be in accordance with reputed company Federal, State, and Local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern our facility, and as may be required by the Director of Nursing to maintain the highest degree of quality care at reputed company times. Essential Job Functions: This facility expects their employees to promote an atmosphere of teamwork with other employees and hospitality and comfort for its residents. Therefore, the following list of duties is not reputed company-inclusive: Administrative Functions • Direct the day-to-day functions of the nursing assistants in accordance with rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care industry. • Confirm that reputed company nursing personnel assigned to you reputed company with the written policies and procedures established by this facility. • Meet with your assigned nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the shift's services, programs and activities. • Verify that reputed company nursing personnel reputed company with the procedures set forth the in the Nursing Policies and Procedures reputed company. • reputed company written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift, as required. • Cooperate with other reputed company services reputed company coordinating nursing services be certain that the reputed company's total regimen of care is maintained. • Verify that reputed company nursing service personnel are in compliance with their respective job descriptions. • Participate in the development, maintenance, and implementation of the facility's quality assurance program for the nursing department. • Participate in surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies. • Periodically review the reputed company's written discharge plan. Participate in the updating of the reputed company's written discharge plan, as required. • Assist in planning the nursing portion of the reputed company's discharge plan, as necessary. • Admit, transfer, and discharge residents, as required. • Complete accident/incident reports, as necessary. Charting and Documentation • Complete and file required forms/charts upon reputed company's admission, transfer, and/or discharge. • Encourage attending physicians to review treatment plans, record and sign their orders, reputed company notes, etc., in accordance with established policies. • Receive telephone orders from physicians and record on the Physicians' Order Form. • Transcribe physician's orders to reputed company charts, cardex, medication cards, and treatment/care plans, as required. • Chart nurses' notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the reputed company, as well as the reputed company's response to care. • Record new/changed diet orders. reputed company information to the Dietary Department. • Report reputed company discrepancies noted concerning physician's orders, diet change, charting error, etc., to the Nurse Supervisor. • Fill out and complete transfer forms in accordance with established procedures. • Enter appropriate documentation concerning unauthorized discharges in the reputed company's medical record in accordance with established procedures. • reputed company routine charting duties as required and in accordance with established charting and documentation policies and procedures. • Sign and date reputed company entries made in the reputed company's medical record. • Write nurses' notes to reflect that the care plan is being followed reputed company administering nursing care or treatment. Medication Administrative Functions • Prepare and administer medication as ordered by the physician. • Verify the identity of the reputed company before administering the medication/treatment. • Verify that prescribed medication for one reputed company is not administered to another. • Verify that adequate supply of floor stock medications, supplies, and equipment is on hand to meet the nursing needs of the residents. Report needs to the Nurse Supervisor. • Order prescribed medications, supplies, and equipment as necessary, and in accordance with established procedures. • Verify that narcotic records are accurate for your shift. • Notify the Nurse Supervisor of reputed company drug and narcotic discrepancies noted on your shift. • Review medication cards for completeness of information, accuracy in the transcription of the physician's order and adherence to stop order policies. • Notify the attending physician of automatic stop orders prior to the last dosage being administered. • Immediately notify the Nurse Supervisor and attending physician of any medication administration errors. Nursing Care Functions • Deliver and maintain reputed company reputed company care and comfort by demonstrating knowledge and skills of reputed company nursing practices. • Promptly respond to call lights and other reputed company needs. • reputed company reputed company with physicians, as necessary. • Consult with the reputed company's physician in providing the reputed company's care, treatment, rehabilitation, etc., as necessary. • Review the reputed company's chart for specific treatments, medication orders, diets, etc., as necessary. • reputed company periodic checks to confirm that prescribed treatments are being properly administered by CNAs and to evaluate the reputed company's physical and emotional status. • Notify the reputed company's attending physician reputed company the reputed company is involved in an accident or incident. • Notify the reputed company's attending physician and responsible party reputed company there is a change in the reputed company's condition. • Administer professional services such as: catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, taking blood, giving massages and range of reputed company exercises, care for the dead/dying, etc., as required. • Monitor seriously ill residents, as necessary. • Review care plans daily to confirm that appropriate care is being rendered. • Confirm that CNAs are aware of the reputed company care plans. Verify that the CNAs refer to the reputed company's care plan prior to administering daily care to the reputed company. Other Duties • Attend in-service education programs in order to meet facility educational requirements. • Be familiar with Standard Precautions, Exposure Control Plan, Fire Drill and Evacuation Procedures and know how to use the information. • Maintain confidentiality of reputed company and facility records/information. • Protect residents from neglect, mistreatment, and abuse. • Protect the personal property of the residents of the facility. • Others as directed by the supervisor or administrator. Minimum Qualifications: • Licensed Practical Nurse with reputed company state license. • Excellent technical, assessment and documentation skills. • Good Leadership qualities. • Organized and detailed in work performance. • Good communication skills with excellent self-discipline and patience. • Genuine caring for and interest in elderly and disabled people in a nursing facility. • reputed company with the Residents Rights and Facility Policies and Procedures. • reputed company work tasks reputed company the physical demand requirements as outlined below. • reputed company Essential Duties as outlined above. Expected salary: Location: Atlanta, GA Job date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:29:03 GMT Apply for the job now! Apply Job!