What are the responsibilities and job description for the LVN/LPN - PRN, residential position at Discovery Behavioral Health?
Position Summary
The LVN/LPN will provide patient care and assist in the collection of data during the assessment process, within their scope of practice, under the direction of an RN, mid-level practitioner, licensed physician, or supervisor at all times.
Essential Job Functions
Schedule: as needed,7pm-7:30am coverage
Work Location: Del Mar, CA
Compensation: Pay Range: $28-37 hourly
The LVN/LPN will provide patient care and assist in the collection of data during the assessment process, within their scope of practice, under the direction of an RN, mid-level practitioner, licensed physician, or supervisor at all times.
Essential Job Functions
- Informing personnel (i.e. UR, psychiatry, dietician) of new admissions when appropriate.
- Administering and documenting vital signs, CIWAs, COWS (SUD only), collects data for fall assessments/precautions, seizure precautions, suicidal/homicidal assessments, pain scales, anxiety scales, craving scales, standard and infection control precautions adding co-signers as necessary.
- Observation, documentation, audit functions, education, and record keeping of all observed/inventoried/destroyed/prescribed medications.
- Assessment of patients with addiction and mental health conditions and assisting in ascertaining clinical medication management with Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Psychiatrist, and Medical Doctor.
- Administering medications via oral, sublingual, inhalation, auricular, topical, intramuscular, subcutaneous, vaginal, and rectal routes as ordered.
- Entering medication orders into the electronic medical record.
- Manages the Medication Administration Record, documenting administration, efficacy, and first response.
- Collaborate with staff in assessing patient, family age-specific nursing needs and develops plan of care for complex high-risk patients.
- Help Utilization Review in communicating pertinent nursing information.
- Designs teaching programs for patients/families and helps staff in program implementation.
- Work closely with physicians to provide education and counseling for clients and other organizational health care providers on optimal use of medicines (e.g., proper use, avoidance of over medication).
- Provide nursing care adapted to the individual patient needs based on the nursing process, which includes data collection, planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Direct patient care, including the reporting of observed changes in mental status and/or physical condition, response to emergencies, safety risks.
- Documents nursing incidents and medication errors.
- Oversee the medication management system that includes but not limited to, medication planning, storage, ordering and transcribing, administration, monitoring and evaluation.
- Verifies the integrity of and controls medications brought into the organization by the client, their families, and licensed independent practitioners.
- Systemically collect, record and analyze data and other relevant interactive social systems, including mental status, special precautions (suicidality, homicidally, elopement); physical problems/medical acuity (withdrawal and nutritional needs); and ethnic concerns (social, religious, or cultural needs).
- Uses assessment data to identify problem list and other interactive social systems.
- Intervenes as guided by the treatment plan to implement appropriate interventions that promote, maintain, or restore physical and mental health, prevent illness effect rehabilitation, and restore developmental progression.
- Provides health education for patients through individual and group interactions.
- Recommends special precautions, as needed.
- Evaluates the response of the patients to interventions to revise the plan, including discharge criteria.
- Must be a graduate of an approved vocational nursing program with a current licensure from an appropriate state licensing board in good standing.
- Preferred: Experience as a staff nurse, preferably in the field of chemical dependency and/or behavioral health.
- Knowledge of industry standards: organization, theory, principles, and research processes, accreditation and regulatory standards, ability to assess clinical care requirements based on nursing principles, scope of practice.
- One year experience preferred working in mental health, substance use, or eating disorders field.
- Familiar with behavior change, recovery models, and treatment methods
- Knowledge of medications, indications, dosage ranges, side effects, and potential toxicity.
Schedule: as needed,7pm-7:30am coverage
Work Location: Del Mar, CA
Compensation: Pay Range: $28-37 hourly
Salary : $28 - $37