What are the responsibilities and job description for the LPN PRN - Dayshift & Nightshift position at Music City Detox?
Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is responsible for providing care to clients to include but not limited to administering medication, taking vitals, assessing medical needs of clients.
Essential Duties
Minimum Qualifications:
POSITION SUMMARY:
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is responsible for providing care to clients to include but not limited to administering medication, taking vitals, assessing medical needs of clients.
Essential Duties
- Assisting with the taking and recording of daily client vital signs and assessments
- Administering medications and treatments as per provider protocol
- Assisting with client admissions and discharges
- Recording client observations and reporting to the medical team as needed
- Compassionately interacting with the client population to encourage engagement in treatment
- Maintain a safe and sanitary environment
- Attend staff trainings and meetings as required
- Communicating with the pharmacy as needed
- Completing client nursing admissions not limited to: intake surveys, blood draws, TB testing, GeneSight swabbing
- Follows all policies and procedures with regard to patient information protection, including alcohol-drug patient confidentiality and HIPAA
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Current unrestricted licensure in TN/GA as a Licensed Practical Nurse
- Able to read, analyze, and interpret policies and directions, and present information effectively, both orally and written
- Ability to work with both chemically dependent and individuals in psychiatric care in a non-judgmental, compassionate fashion
- Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with other staff as well as with referral sources
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions from a wide variety of data and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Experience working with people in recovery or in mental health treatment a plus.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401k Match
- Paid-Time Off
- Sick Time
- Holiday Pay