Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

**$10,000 Sign on Bonus - full-time only, paid out in 4 monthly installments over a year**

Setting: Skilled nursing

Status: Full-Time and PRN available

Shifts: Day and Evening available

Location: Avamere Heritage Rehab - 7411 Pacific Ave. Tacoma, WA 98404

Nestled in the Pacific Northwest in scenic Tacoma, Washington is Avamere Heritage Rehabilitation of Tacoma, an 89-bed skilled nursing community.

Quality care is important at Avamere, evident in their recognition by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living as part of their Quality Initiative Recognition Program.

The team compassionately enhances lives of not just their residents and patients, but their surrounding area as well. They participate in and raise funds during the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s in support of Alzheimer’s awareness and research. They also recognize health observances in their own building by wearing pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.

Employee Perks:

• Tuition assistance
• Mentorship opportunities & Career development
• Employee assistance program featuring counseling services, financial coaching, free legal services and more
• Generous employee referral program
• Paid time off/sick leave (rolls over annually)
• 401K retirement plan with employer match
• Comprehensive benefits package with medical coverage, voluntary dental, vision, and life insurance, short-term disability, and AD&D coverage
• Access up to 50% of your net earned income before payday

Responsibilities

• Complete required record keeping in regards to your role in admitting, transferring and discharging residents.
• Coordinate with nursing staff and support personnel daily to plan the shifts’ services, programs and activities to ensure the resident’s total regimen of care is maintained.
• Prepare and administer medications and review medication cards for completeness and accuracy.
• Review resident care plans for appropriate resident goals, problems, approaches and revisions based on nursing needs.
• Plan, organize, develop, implement and interpret programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures that are necessary for providing quality care.
• Provide leadership to nursing personnel and make daily rounds of your unit to ensure staff is providing direct care in accordance with resident’s care plan and wishes.
• Participate in facility surveys by authorized government agencies.
• Chart nurses’ notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident and resident’s response to care.

Qualifications

• Must possess a nursing degree from an accredited college or university.
• Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an LPN in this state.
• Knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations and guidelines that pertain to nursing care facilities.
• Experience with Electronic Medical Records and computer documentation systems.
• Maintain confidentiality of all resident care information in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.

Avamere Skilled Advisors, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify

Licenses & Certifications

• Licenced Practical Nurse