Registered Nurse; RN or Licensed Practical Nurse; LPN | Long Term Care in Hanley Falls, MN

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) | Long Term Care
Location: Hanley Falls

Location:

Avera Morningside Heights Care Center
Worker Type:
Regular

Work Shift:

Primarily days with rotating weekends and holidays (United States of America)
Position Highlights
Student Loan Repayment:

This position may be eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.
Job Satisfaction:

Each day you will positively impact each patient you serve with providing direct resident care.
Positive Work Environment:

Be part of an organization where we practice the mission in our daily operations and demonstrate our pride by delivering excellent care.

LPN

Job Description Summary
Provides each resident with professional nursing care, assessment and evaluations in their scope of practice.

LPN Required Education, License/Certification, or

Work Experience:

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Board of Nursing An active license in the state of practice Upon Hire Work Schedule
Day Shift
7 a.m.

-3:30p
every 4th weekend
Holiday rotation Pay
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
LPN Pay: $24.86- $35.84 per hour.
RN Pay: $41.29-$64.16 per hour

You Belong at Avera Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview
The Licensed Practical Nurse in Long Term Care is accountable for providing each resident with professional nursing care, assessment and evaluations in their scope of practice.
What you will do Performs all licensed practical nursing functions and services as directed by the Registered Nurse to all residents.
Completes assessments on residents, makes appropriate interventions, applies knowledge, prioritizes resident care, uses nursing process (assess, plan, implement, evaluate).
Complies with all pharmaceutical policies and procedures, ensures that all medications/treatments are given safely and accurately in accordance with the physician’s orders.
Participates in the care planning process and assures that resident care is implemented consistently and appropriate to the age of those served. Initiates and updates plan of care as appropriate.
Complies with standards of professional documentation.
Communicates and manages the delivery of resident care, ensures quality care is provided.
Facilitates conflict management while respecting diversity of people, their strengths and ideas.
Guides neighborhood staff in meeting the needs of the residents, practicing routines based on residents’ needs.
Participates in physician rounds, communicates changes in resident condition to physician utilizes SBAR communication tool.
Processes and transcribes physician’s orders and implements according to facility policy.
Functions within the scope of the Nurse Practice Act, utilizing recognized standards of clinical practice, as defined by the State of MN.
Complies and enforces facilities staffing policies.
Assists with data collection for quality functions, assists with performance improvement activities.
Seeks educational opportunities, shares knowledge with others, assists with orientation of new staff.
Demonstrates appropriate decision making skills.
Maintains competency with operational equipment.
Investigates incidents, patient/family complaints and makes immediate report to VP of Resident Care or Administrator on-call.
Administers medications according to facility policy, competent in Pyxis medication administration system.
Assists in discharge planning and education.
Performs all other duties as assigned.
Essential Qualifications
The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions.

Reasonable…