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

Nursing Position

The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, providing skilled nursing care in a supportive environment. This role involves ongoing assessment of client and family circumstances, ensuring effective communication of client changes and needs to the physician and nursing supervision.

Job Description

• Initiate preventive, rehabilitative, and therapeutic nursing measures.
• Teach safety precautions, medication actions and interactions, and appropriate health care measures.
• Administer medications, treatments, and other modalities as ordered by the attending physician.
• Maintain current skills, knowledge, and practice-specific information by completing continuing education programs.
• Document accurately and submit timely nursing notes and reports according to agency and facility standards.
• Work in cooperation with facility administration and personnel.
• Demonstrate the ability to provide nursing care within the parameters of the State Nurse Practice Act and the policies and procedures of the agency.
• Initiate and implement a realistic care plan.
• Continually assess a client's changing physical, emotional, and social condition.
• 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.