LPN | Per Diem 80 hours - HomeHealth - Private Duty Nurse

About ChristianaCare:
ChristianaCare is the one of the Mid Atlantic's largest academic health care providers and consists of 3 campuses: Wilmington, Newark and Union at Cecil County. Through our values of love and excellence, ChristianaCare is consistently identified as a regional center of excellence for cardiology, cancer and women's health services and ranked by US News & World as Best Hospital.

ChristianaCare Private Duty serves patients throughout the state of Delaware, and has needs on specific cases for which we are recruiting, including a 10p-6a shift and a 9p-5a shift, as well as some day shift hours.  These patients require gastric tube feedings for nutrition, and possess other medical conditions that require constant monitoring.  If serving these patients would be meaningful to you and your clinical development, please apply.  Please see our video, by clicking this link, for a glimpse of what it means to work at the VNA: https://youtu.be/OEVadkUrte8. 

ChristianaCare HomeHealth is seeking Per Diem LPNs to work in Newark, Wilmington or Kent/Sussex Delaware within our Private Duty Nursing department.  This exciting position offers:

• Schedule Flexibility.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide overnight care while parents and caregivers sleep, ensuring the patient’s safety and comfort.
• Administer medications and other prescribed treatments as ordered.
• Coordinate care with the family, the patient’s physician and other healthcare professionals.
• Creates positive relationships by serving in a compassionate, responsive and courteous manner.

Requirements:

• Delaware LPN license with one year experience working in a healthcare setting preferred.
• Associates degree or completed an accredited LPN education program.
• Work experience in an acute or chronic care facility, or home health agency is preferred.
• Previous Home Healthcare and Long Term Care experience preferred.
• Must be able to attend a two-week daytime orientation in our Camden office, followed by patient-specific field orientation on night shift. Also requires a mandatory weekend per month. There is some flexibility in the orientation schedule that can be discussed.
• Tracheostomy and ventilator experience a plus!

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.