What are the responsibilities and job description for the LPN Weekend Doubles Needed position at Cox Healthcare?
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Provide routine care, observe residents’ health, assist doctors, and communicate instructions to residentss regarding medication, home-based care, and preventative lifestyle changes.
Job Responsibilities:
- Help implement and evaluate care plans for individual care of each resident.
- Maintains appropriate nursing service objectives, goals, and standards of nursing practices.
- Receive, transcribe, and implement physician’s orders in a timely manner.
- Reports required condition changes, events to appropriate parties.
- Administers medication/treatments as prescribed.
- Monitors infection control compliance.
- Investigates/documents accidents/incidents.
- Record a resident’s medical history accurately
- Take and record measurements of blood pressure, temperature, heart rate etc.
- Observe residents under treatment to identify progress, side-effects of medications etc.
- Monitor residents’ condition including fluid intake and output and compose residents' charts
- Assist ailing residents 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
- Collect samples for lab testing as assigned
- Provide emotional and psychological support when needed
- Communicate with residents’ family or friends to provide advice, comfort and release instructions
Job requirements:
- Proven experience as LPN or similar role
- Ability to undertake a variety of diverse care tasks and work in a multidisciplinary team
- Familiarity with hospital health, safety and sanitation standards and procedures
- Understanding of confidentiality obligations and nursing best practices
- Excellent knowledge of medical and hospital terminology
- Good knowledge of MS Office and data entry
- Perfect physical condition and stamina
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Compassionate and able to handle stress
- Successful completion of LPN license program is a must