Hospice Inpatient LPN (PRN)

Description

Be part of something meaningful as an LPN (PRN) in our unique eight-bed hospice facility located within a beautifully restored Victorian home. This intimate setting gives you the opportunity to form genuine connections while providing hands-on nursing care alongside dedicated teammates. Together, you’ll ensure every resident experiences comfort, dignity, and the warmth of a homelike atmosphere.

Responsibilities:

• Patient Care: Provide nursing care to Hospice residents and oversee nursing assistants.
• Team Collaboration: Work with the team to identify patient care needs.
• Communication: Report changes in residents' conditions to the relevant medical staff.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate patient records in EMR.
• Support Tasks: Assist with food preparation, housekeeping, and complete various administrative tasks.
• Policy Adherence: Follow personnel policies and maintain safety and infection control standards.
• Medication Management: Manage medication orders, perform narcotic counts, and ensure proper medication handling.

Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities:

• Licensed as a Licensed Practical Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• Two years of nursing experience required.
• Emotionally mature and caring individual willing to give support and assistance to terminally ill and their families.
• Basic to intermediate proficiency in word processing software or EMR.
• Driver’s license, personal automobile, and current automobile liability insurance.

Typical Physical Demands/Working Conditions: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. 

•  Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.   
•  Sit, stand, stoop, bend, reach, lift and walk, climb steps  
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and push up to 200 pounds in a wheelchair. 
• Due to the nature of services provided, it may be necessary at times for employees to work beyond scheduled work hours to ensure adequate patient care.

Hospice of the Piedmont is a non-profit, equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and patients served.