Licensed Practical Nurse 1:1

• Ensures implementation of nursing care plans by completing prescribed medical treatments
• Ensures implementation of nursing care plans/healthcare plans by obtaining vital signs, weight and height of individuals every month and as needed
• Ensures implementation of nursing/healthcare plans by setting up, dispensing and documenting administration of ordered medication and/or treatments
• Ensures implantation of nursing/healthcare plans by monitoring side effects and effectiveness of medications/treatments
• Ensures implementation of nursing/healthcare plans by assisting with physicians order, consultants, and laboratory/special tests requirements, making all medical appointments as recommended.
• Provide total care of the skin to prevent breakdown.
• Turning and repositioning every one hour.
• Providing total care of individual including going on vacation and community outings.
• Maintaining strict aspiration precaution 24 hours.
• Completes mediation administration record, PRN and charting requirements, monthly summary.
• Works closely with nursing supervisory staff in reporting pertinent medial information.
• Monitors incident reporting procedures for timeless, completeness and accuracy and examines individuals involved in incidents/accidents.
• Assists in ongoing in-service programs related to health services.
• Transcribes and/or ensures physicians phone orders, reviews laboratory and other medically related reports, and consults prior to filing in the individuals records
• Ensures routine documentation of individual health status in nurses notes
• Ensures provisions of needed adaptive equipments.
• Dependable, accepts responsibility for attendance and punctuality.
• Flexible, adjusts to workload to accommodate changes in priorities and guidelines.
• Handles information in a confidential manner.
• Cooperates in internal and external investigations and provide attachments of the EPD and incident management coordinator promptly when needed.
• Attend all ISP meeting and plan of care meetings when ever scheduled.
• Follow-up with all medical appointments and make sure that all medications are obtained from the pharmacy in a timely manner.
• Review all MAR and POS monthly and make sure that orders are signed by the PCP before the 1st of each month.
• Make sure all cycle medications are received from the pharmacy, checked and distributed before the cycle ends.
• Provide G-tube feeding and care as ordered.
• All other duties assigned

CERTIFICATION, LICENSE, REGISTRATION:

• Valid driver’s license from state of residence, valid/current First Aid and CPR, LPN license for DC.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Must be able to bend, stoop, push, reach, lift, sit and walk for periods of time. Employee must be able to utilize proper body mechanics while assisting with transfers of the people supported weighing up to 250 pounds. Must be free of communicable diseases.
• Must be able to bend, stoop push, reach, lift, sit, walk for periods of time.
• Must be able to utilize proper body mechanics while assisting with transfers of people weighing up to 250 pounds.
• Must be free of communicable diseases

VISUAL AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS:

• Employee must be able to communicate both verbally and in writing. Employee must be able to give and receive verbal and written instructions. Must have fine vision and be able to operate office equipment, including but not limited to computers, telephones, calculators, copier, etc.

WORK LOCATION AND ENVIRONMENT:

• Home-like and office -like setting with varying degrees of background noise of the people supported residing in home. Hazard may exist if the staff fails to use proper body mechanics in safely transferring and lifting individuals, if vehicles are not operated safely or if proper techniques are not used when intervening with person supported. The possibility of blood-borne pathogens exists if universal precautions are not followed.

TRAINING:

• Employee must have ability to complete all trainings requirements and demonstrate competency on written/computerized exams.
• This job description is not supposed to be all inclusive and employees may be requested to perform other reasonable duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor or other management as well. Metro Homes, Inc. reserves the right to revise or change the job duties as requirements and regulations dictate. It is mutually agreed that the job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment. It is also understood that Metro Homes, Inc. reserves the right to change work schedules as required, including overtime.