What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) position at Sonida Senior Living?
**Currently offering Sign on Bonus thru 8/31/22!!! $500 full-time, $250 part-time**
Help enrich the lives of seniors by becoming part of the Capital Senior Living team at Aspen Grove!
Aspen Grove, a premier retirement community in Lambertville, MI, provides quality care to residents in an Assisted Living and Memory Care community. We are passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of those we care for. If you’re looking to grow your career and experience in a team-oriented environment, apply for Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) position today.
Working at Aspen Grove truly means becoming a member of our family. We believe caring for seniors is a uniquely rewarding experience and there is no better place to realize that experience than with us. We are looking for a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join our team!
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) identifies patient needs, plans, implements, evaluates and provides nursing care of assigned patients utilizing the nursing process to facilitate the patient’s progression toward optimal health.
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Responsibilities include:
- Take Temperature, Pulse, Respirations, and Blood Pressures and document them correctly
- Proper assessment and documentation when resident returns from the hospital, or rehab. Any resident sent out to the hospital and is gone less than 24 hours does not need a re-admission form completed.
- Pass meds to all residents that are on medication administration.
- LPN is required to order and refill medication for residents and their pharmacy
- LPN is required to fill out incident reports for falls, skin tears, medication errors, elopements, resident to resident altercations, and employee incidents.
- Complete all treatments per doctors’ orders.
- Update Doctors about residents condition
- Properly fill out doctors’ orders and make sure they are charted on, sent to pharmacy, and families notified
- An LPN is also responsible for charting:
- Residents decline in condition
- When resident has a medication change
- Falls, skin tears, elopements, altercation
- Aggressive behavior
- Resident not eating or drinking
- New orders
- Hot box charting
- Treatments
- When a resident is taken to the hospital or returns from being gone
- Daily charting when resident is on Antibiotic therapy
- When doctors or families are notified
Perks of joining our team:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurances*
- 401k retirement savings plan*
- Paid time off*
- Company paid training for career advancement**
- All available after the first 60 days of full-time employment!!
*Benefit eligibility is dependent on employment status.
**Eligibility based on location.
