LPN - Maristhill Nursing and Rehab Center

Maristhill Nursing & Rehabiliation Center
License Practical Nurse (LPN)
Location: 66 Newton St, Waltham, MA 02453
Shifts: Per Diem - Days or Nights

Maristhill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is seeking qualified Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) for a variety of Per Diem shifts. You choose your own schedule!

Requirements:
• 2 year degree
• ctive state LPN license
• 1 year experience

Job Summary:
The Licensed Practical Nurse evaluates residents and provides medical treatment in accordance with the physician's orders, always following Maristhill's policies and procedures. Assures that the resident care is given in accordance with the philosophies, objectives and established procedures at Maristhill. Monitors facility to ensure resident and staff safety. Treats residents with dignity and respect for their rights, provides privacy, and maintains confidentiality.

Responsibilities:

• Receives verbal report on residents from the previous nurse when reporting for duty. Gives a complete report to oncoming nurse prior to leaving duty.
• Makes rounds on all residents when arriving on duty, and throughout the shift. Reviews the condition of residents with staff on the unit and communicates pertinent information to others involved with the resident care.
• Counts controlled substances/narcotics with the previous Med. Nurse when arriving on duty and when leaving. Ensures that all medications are properly stored, counted, and locked. Orders and destroys meds as per policies and procedures of Maristhill.
• Notifies the Nurse Manager/Shift Supervisor to report changes in condition, transfers to hospitals, incidents and accidents, abnormal lab results and follow up, etc.
• Evaluates residents and consults the physician when necessary. Coordinates the scheduling and related transportation of appointments for referrals to clinics and other doctors.
• Arranges for transfers to hospitals as needed.
• Informs the necessary persons in the event of accident, injury, change in condition, treatment plan, transfers or death.
• Checks the assignment sheet at the beginning of each shift to ensure that the Nursing Assistants have been assigned the specific residents, unit care duties and responsibilities, breaks and mealtimes.
• Supervises the work performance of unit nursing personnel to ensure thoroughness and assists as necessary to ensure:
• Orderliness and safety of the facility including nursing station, medical rooms, and resident rooms
• Notifies the Nursing Office of the need for supplies and equipment for nursing care on the unit.
• Evaluates residents and carries out nursing care in accordance with the physician's orders and the facility policies and procedures in areas including but not limited to
• Medication administration
• Treatment and dressings
• Enteral feedings and needed feeding tube changes/ insertions
• Intravenous therapy. IV Medications that are required to be mixed on site to be done by RNs only.
• Indwelling catheter insertions/changes/irrigat ions
• Oxygen therapy
• Supportive respiratory therapy (suction, trach care)
• Colostomy/ileostomy care, vaginal douches, enemas, etc.
• Emergency care
• Pronounce resident's death with physician's order.
• Communicates and cooperates with members of other departments for coordination of resident care.
• Transcripting and noting of physician orders.
• Completion of admission, transfer, or discharge documentation.
• Health monitoring activities (vital signs, weights, intake and output, foley catheter output, diabetic monitoring).
• Health care interventions (medications, treatments, PROM, turning and positioning).
• Diet order and diet change slips.
• Charts each shift, on the condition and response of residents listed, on the 24-hour nursing log
• Charts new admissions , i ncidents and accidents, c hanges in condition , t ransfers to hospital or ER, f ollow through on problems stated until resolved.
• Completes nursing summary on each resident monthly. Summary will reflect the resident's ADL participation as well as response to staff interventions or progress towards goals identified in the interdisciplinary care plan:

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