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LPN

Landmark of Lancaster
Lancaster, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 11/26/2024 CLOSED ON 1/23/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the LPN position at Landmark of Lancaster?

Night Shift New Rate of Pay and New Shift Diff 12 hour shifts!!

New Wage Scale!!!

Located in beautiful Lancaster, Kentucky, Landmark of Lancaster takes pride in serving the local community and surrounding communities, and always strives to put the resident first. We offer comprehensive skilled medical care, rehab-to-home programs, long term care services, hospice services, respite care, and a variety of other healthcare services. We have spacious rooms, in-house therapy gym, dining room, and daily activity programs. Private rooms are available as well. Our facility is part of the community, and we treat our residents and staff like family here at Landmark.

Our missing is to be a leader in providing passionate, quality care focusing on the needs and expectations of residents and their families. We are dedicated to a healthy environment that promotes confident communication, honor, and collaboration among all members of the resident, family and healthcare team. Come join our team and begin making a difference in the lives of he residents here at our facility.

Benefits:

NEW Non-Benefit Wages!

Shift differential for evenings/nights (3p-7a)

Shift differential for Weekend Option Program

Overtime and Extra Shift Bonuses

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Holiday and Birthday Pay)

PTO Cash Out Option

Payactiv (Get paid next day)

Attendance Bonus (Paid Every Pay Period)

Flexible Scheduling (Full-Time, Part-Time or PRN)

Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision and More)

401K

Wonderful Team to Work With!

Tuition Reimbursement

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Role Responsibilities – Administrative Duties:


Directs the day-to-day functions of the nursing assistants in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care facility


Ensures that all nursing personnel assigned to you comply with the written policies and procedures established by this facility


Reviews the department's policies, procedure manuals, job descriptions, etc. periodically and makes recommendations for revisions


Meets with assigned nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the shifts' services, programs, and activities


Ensures that the Nursing Service Procedures Manual is current and reflects the day-to-day nursing procedures performed in this facility


Ensures that all nursing service personnel comply with the procedures set forth in the Nursing Service Procedures Manual


Makes written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift as required


Cooperates with other resident services when coordinating nursing services to ensure that the resident's total regimen of care is maintained


Ensures that all nursing service personnel follow their respective job descriptions


Participates in the development, maintenance, and implementation of the facility's quality assurance program for the nursing service department


Provides data to the Quality Assurance & Assessment Committee as requested


Participates in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies as may be requested


Reviews the resident's written discharge plan periodically and participates in the updating of the resident's written discharge plan as required


Assists in planning the nursing services portion of the resident's discharge plan as necessary


Interprets the department's policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and government agencies as required


Completes accident/incident reports as necessary


Writes resident charge slips and forward to the Business Office


Maintains the Daily Census Report and submit to the Business Office as required


Performs administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary

Role Responsibilities – Charting and Documentation:

Completes and files required record keeping forms/charts upon the resident's admission, transfer, and/or discharge


Encourages attending physicians to review treatment plans, record and sign their orders, progress notes, etc., in accordance with established policies


Receives telephone orders from physicians and record on the Physicians' Order Form


Transcribes physician's orders to resident charts, cardex, and medication cards, treatment/care plans, as required


Charts nurses' notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident, as well as the resident's response to the care


Charts all reports of accidents/incidents involving residents. Follow established procedures


Records new/changed diet orders and forwards information to the Dietary Department


Reports all discrepancies noted concerning physician's orders, diet change, charting error, etc., to the Nurse Supervisor


Fills out and completes transfer forms in accordance with established procedures


Ensures that appropriate documentation concerning unauthorized discharges is entered in the resident's medical record in accordance with established procedures


Performs routine charting duties as required and in accordance with established charting and documentation policies and procedures


Signs and dates all entries made in the resident's medical record


Role Responsibilities – Drug Administration:

Prepares and administers medications as ordered by the physician


Verifies the identity of the resident before administering the medication/treatment


Ensures that prescribed medication for one resident is not administered to another


Ensures that an adequate supply of floor stock medications, supplies, and equipment is on hand to meet the nursing needs of the residents and reports needs to the Nurse Supervisor


Orders prescribed medications, supplies, and equipment as necessary, and in accordance with established policies


Ensures that narcotic records are accurate for your shift


Notifies the Nurse Supervisor of all drug and narcotic discrepancies noted on your shift


Reviews medication cards for completeness of information, accuracy in the transcription of the physician's order, and adherence to stop order policies


Notifies the attending physician of automatic stop orders prior to the last dosage being administered


Disposes of drugs and narcotics as required, and in accordance with established procedures

Role Responsibilities – Personnel Duties:

Participates in employee performance evaluations, determining your shift's staffing requirements, and making recommendations to the Nurse Supervisor concerning employee dismissals, transfers, etc.


Informs the Nurse Supervisor of staffing needs when assigned personnel fail to report to work and reports absentee call-ins


Reviews and evaluates your department's work force and make recommendations to the Nurse Supervisor


Develops work assignments and/or assist in completing and performing such assignments


Provides leadership to nursing personnel assigned to your unit/shift


Makes daily rounds of your unit/shift to ensure that nursing service personnel are performing their work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards. Report problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor


Ensures that all nurse aide trainees are under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse


Meets with your shift's nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or to improve services


Ensures that department personnel, residents, and visitors always follow the department’s established policies and procedures


Reviews complaints and grievances made or filed by your assigned personnel. Make appropriate reports to the Nurse Supervisor as required or as may be necessary


Ensures that departmental disciplinary action is administered fairly and without regard to any protected class under federal or state law


Receives/gives the nursing report upon reporting in and ending shift duty hours

Role Responsibilities – Nursing Care:

Informs nursing personnel of new admissions, their expected time of arrival, room assignment, etc.


Ensures that rooms are ready for new admissions


Participates in the orientation of new residents/family members to the facility


Makes rounds with physicians as necessary


Requests and arranges for diagnostic and therapeutic services, as ordered by the physician, and in accordance with our established procedures


Consults with the resident's physician in providing the resident's care, treatment, rehabilitation, etc., as necessary


Reviews the resident's chart for specific treatments, medication orders, diets, etc., as necessary


Implements and maintains established nursing objectives and standards


Makes periodic checks to ensure that certified nursing assistants are properly administering prescribed treatments and to evaluate the resident's physical and emotional status


Cooperates with and coordinates social and activity programs with nursing service schedules


Notifies the resident's attending physician when the resident is involved in an accident or incident


Notifies the resident's attending physician and next-of-kin when there is a change in the resident's condition


Carries out restorative and rehabilitative programs, to include self-help and care


Inspects the nursing service treatment areas daily to ensure that they are maintained in a clean and safe manner


Administers professional services such as catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, taking blood, giving massages and range of motion exercises, care for the dead/dying, etc., as required


Uses restraints when necessary and in accordance with established policies and procedures


Obtains sputum, urine and other specimens for lab tests as ordered


Takes and records TPRs, blood pressures, etc., as necessary


Monitors seriously ill residents as necessary


Checks foods brought into the facility by the resident's family/visitors to ensure that it is within the resident's dietary allowances and reports problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor and Dietary Supervisor


Ensures that personnel providing direct care to residents are providing such care in accordance with the resident's care plan and wishes


Ensures that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently


Meets with residents, and/or family members, as necessary and reports problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor


Admits, transfers and discharges residents as necessary


Assists in arranging transportation for discharged residents as necessary


Ensures that discharged residents are escorted to the pick-up area


Informs family members of the death of the resident


Calls funeral homes when requested by the family and ensures that established post-mortem procedures are followed.

Role Responsibilities – Staff Development

Participates in developing, planning, conducting, and in-service training classes that provide instructions on "how to do the job," and ensures a well-educated nursing service department


Implements and maintains an effective orientation program that orients the new employee to your shift, its policies, and procedures, and to his/her job position and duties


Assists in standardizing the methods in which work will be accomplished


Assists in training department personnel in identifying tasks that involve potential exposure to blood/body fluids


Attends and participates in outside training programs


Attends and participates in annual OSHA and CDC in-service training programs for hazard communication, TB management, and bloodborne pathogens standard


Attends and participates in continuing education programs designed to keep you abreast of changes in your profession, as well as to maintain your license

Role Responsibilities - Interpersonal Skills:

Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with the residents, personnel, and support agencies


Is involved with residents, personnel, visitors, government agencies/personnel, etc., under all conditions and circumstances


Cooperates with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents


Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive emphasis, as well as a clam environment throughout the unit and shift


Maintains a liaison with the residents, their families, support departments, etc., to adequately plan for the residents’ needs


Communicates with the medical staff, nursing personnel, and other department supervisors

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Must possess, as a minimum, a Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university, or be a graduate of an approved RN or LPN program


Participation in continuing education classes, workshops, and seminars affiliated with outside nursing organizations desirable


Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an RN in this state


Must be able to understand and carry out oral and written instructions


Must be able to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate effectively in English


Must be able to handle stressful situations and be flexible and adaptable


Must be knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to long-term care


Must possess leadership and supervisory ability and the willingness to work harmoniously with and supervise other personnel


Must possess the ability to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures, etc., that are necessary for providing quality care


Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and enthusiasm, as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents


Must be willing to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing nursing practices


Must be able to relate information concerning a resident's condition

Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, our company complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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