What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Practical Nurse position at CHP Home Care & Hospice?
CHP Home Care & Hospice is hiring reliable, qualified, and compassionate LPNs to care for local skilled home health and hospice patients.
- Provide care in your local area
- Limited on-call due to dedicated call staff
- Flexible schedules to meet your needs
- Full-Time or Part-time positions
Work one-on-one with patients in their homes. Challenge and expand your nursing skills and realize the satisfaction of impacting physical, emotional, and spiritual health needs. As a home health and hospice nurse, you'll enjoy a flexible schedule that enables you to balance work and life.
Immediate opportunities in Archbold, Bryan, and Defiance areas.
Benefits
At CHP Home Care & Hospice, we provide an employee benefits package that includes competitive pay rates, paid mileage, uniform allowance, flexibility in schedules and positions, full medical, dental, vision, short and long-term insurance, 403(b) retirement, and paid time off to qualifying employees. Join this well-established, growing, home health and hospice organization
What You Will Do
Deliver one-on-one care for clients in the home setting, including routine nursing procedures (blood pressure, injections, and vital signs), observation, assessment, medication management, etc. Provide education about diagnosis and the plan of care and listen and respond to patient requests and concerns.
Responsibilities
- Record a patient's medical history accurately
- Take and record measurements of blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, etc.
- Observe patients under treatment to identify progress, side-effects of medications, etc.
- Monitor patients' conditions including fluid intake and output and compose patient charts
- Assist ailing patients in daily necessary activities such as eating, bathing, etc.
- Administer injections, prescribed medications, enemas, etc., clean and dress wounds, and assist with other basic medical care tasks
- Provide emotional and psychological support as needed
- Communicate with patients' family or friends to provide advice, comfort, and release instructions
Skills
- Proven experience as LPN or similar role
- Ability to undertake a variety of diverse care tasks and work in a multidisciplinary team
- Understanding confidentiality obligations and nursing best practices
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Qualifications
- Driver's license and reliable, insured, vehicle
- LPN license from an accredited program
- Valid Ohio nursing license
About Our Company
CHP Home Care & Hospice is a regional leader dedicated to providing compassionate home health care and hospice services in northwest and west central Ohio. A nonprofit organization established in 1975, we pride ourselves on delivering comprehensive support tailored to the needs of our communities.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: From $28.86 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Nursing: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- Ohio LPN License (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $29