LVN/LPN / LVN/LPN / Massachusetts / Any / LPN Job

Job Description:

• Provides skilled nursing care.
• Observes and provides ongoing assessment of client and family circumstances.
• Communicates client changes and needs to the physician and Nursing Supervision.
• Initiates preventive, rehabilitative, and therapeutic nursing measures.
• Teaches safety precautions, medication actions and interactions, appropriate health care measures, and appropriate rehabilitation procedures.
• Administers medications, treatments, and other modalities as ordered by the attending physician.
• Maintains current skills, knowledge, and practice-specific information by completing continuing education programs.
• Documents accurately and submits timely nursing notes and reports, according to agency and facility standards.
• Works in cooperation with facility administration and personnel.

Performance Competency:

• Demonstrates ability to provide nursing care within the parameters of the State Nurse Practice Act and the policies and procedures of this agency.
• Demonstrates ability to initiate and implement a realistic care plan.
• Demonstrates ability to continually assess a client's changing physical, emotional, and social condition.

Patient Care Duties:

• Ensure that patients take their medication.
• Observe patients' progress throughout treatment.
• Consult patients' families about the patients' progress.
• Perform routine checks of patients' vital signs.
• Assist doctors and registered nurses.
• Liaise with patients' families.