Licensed Practical Nurse - Assisted Living

Comfort Hills Health Care is seeking an experienced and dependable Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for our Sauk Rapids senior living community. The LPN will support the clinical needs of residents while working closely with the RN, community leadership, resident assistants, providers, pharmacies, families, and other members of the resident's care team.

This position requires someone who understands the unique needs of older adults and has previous senior living experience. The ideal candidate is comfortable working independently, identifying changes in resident condition, coordinating care, overseeing medication-related services, supporting direct-care staff, and maintaining accurate clinical documentation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The LPN's responsibilities include:

• Provide nursing services within the LPN scope of practice and under appropriate RN direction.
• Monitor residents for changes in physical, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional condition.
• Promptly communicate changes in condition to the RN and appropriate provider.
• Assist with resident admissions, transitions, hospital returns, and changes in services.
• Review and follow physician/provider orders.
• Support medication management and medication administration processes.
• Communicate with pharmacies regarding medication orders, refills, discrepancies, and changes.
• Monitor medication administration records and follow up on medication-related concerns.
• Assist with medication audits and medication-cart audits.
• Provide resident treatments as ordered and permitted within scope of practice.
• Monitor skin integrity, edema, wounds, falls, pain, nutrition/hydration, and other identified clinical concerns.
• Communicate with physicians, hospitals, home health, hospice, therapy providers, pharmacies, families, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Assist the RN with implementation and maintenance of resident service plans.
• Ensure staff are following resident service plans and current nursing instructions.
• Provide education, direction, and support to Resident Assistants.
• Observe staff performance and report competency or performance concerns to appropriate leadership.
• Participate in incident review, fall follow-up, medication-error follow-up, and other clinical quality-improvement activities.
• Complete timely, accurate clinical documentation.
• Maintain resident confidentiality and HIPAA compliance.
• Participate in emergency preparedness and resident-safety procedures.
• Follow Minnesota assisted-living requirements, company policies, infection-control practices, and resident-rights requirements.
• Participate in staff meetings, clinical meetings, training, audits, and QAPI activities.
• Maintain professional communication with residents, families, staff, providers, and outside agencies.
• Perform other nursing duties as assigned within the LPN's scope of practice.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have:

• Current, active Minnesota LPN license in good standing.
• Previous senior living experience required.
• Experience in assisted living, memory care, long-term care, or a comparable senior-care environment.
• Experience with medication administration and medication management.
• Knowledge of caring for older adults with complex medical and cognitive needs.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately report changes in resident condition.
• Strong clinical documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities and respond appropriately to urgent resident concerns.
• Ability to work collaboratively with RNs, Resident Assistants, providers, families, and community leadership.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professional boundaries.
• Successful completion of required background study and other employment requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Minnesota assisted living, dementia/memory care, electronic medication records, electronic resident records, service plans, incident management, medication audits, hospital transitions, hospice/home health coordination, and state regulatory requirements is strongly preferred.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for an LPN who is clinically strong but also understands that successful senior living nursing requires communication, follow-through, resident advocacy, staff leadership, and attention to detail.

The successful candidate should be comfortable identifying a problem, communicating it to the appropriate person, documenting the intervention, and following the concern through to resolution.

Senior living experience is required for this position.

Comfort Hills Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Pay: $30.00 - $35.00 per hour

Expected hours: 24.0 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Work Location: In person

Salary : $30 - $35