LPN
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Description
POSITION TITLE: LPN
POSITION REPORTS TO: Nurse Manager
POSITION SUMMARY: Under the direction of the Nurse Manager, provides nursing care to ensure
client receives optimum, quality, cost effective care.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
- Promotes an atmosphere of professionalism, cooperation, respect, and dignity in all communication/interaction with clients, their families, and colleagues.
- Facilitates the orderly performance of the agency's functions by observing policies and standards of conduct.
- Assist clients to ensure the prescribed plan of care is followed.
- Administer medication in conformance with policy and procedures.
- Observe each client for possible signs of intoxication prior to dispensing.
- Observe each client for possible medication side effects and notifies NM/designee immediately.
- Maintains accurate accounting of all medication received and dispensed.
- Document and maintain client medical records adhering to institutional and regulatory agency mandates.
- Performs tasks and responsibilities within the framework of casefinding, health teaching, health counseling, and provision of supportive to or restorative care under the direction of the registered professional nurse.
- Performs duties and tasks within their scope of practice
- Role model for staff and clients
- All other duties as assigned by the Nurse Manager.
- Maintain good working relationships with all employees.
Participate in Job Training and Education Programs, Meetings and Committees.
- Attend mandatory in-service annually.
- Participate in various committees and meetings as requested.
- Attend seminars to further professional development.
JOB COMPETENCY
? Current NYS LPN License
? Current NYS Infection Control Certificate
? Minimum one year experience as an LPN, preferably in a substance abuse treatment program
? Excellent written and oral communication skills.
? Ability to interact effectively with all populations served.
? Ability to speak, read and write the English language.
? Proficiency with computers.
JOB REQUIREMENTS/SETTING
- Must possess sight and digital senses or prosthetics that will enable the essential functions of the job to be completed.
PM20Requirements
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