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LPN - Day Hab
Taunton, MAPosted 2 weeks ago
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Job Description
Job Id:
738
# of Openings:
1
Pay Range: $32 - $33 per hour
Job ID # - 457
Position: LPN
Department: Day Habilitation
Schedule: Monday- Friday 8:30am-3:30pm (35 Hrs./Wk.)
Payrate: $32.00 - $33.00
General Description:
LPN works directly with the Taunton Day Hab. Healthcare Supervisor and Day Hab. participants to provide appropriate medical care while participants are in the Day Hab setting. The LPN participates in relevant training opportunities, oversees the health and wellness of participating individuals in concert with the RN. The LPN reports weekly, and as needed, to the Day Hab RN.
Minimum Qualifications:
- LPN Licensure in MA
- Comprehensive knowledge of nursing care, experience working with individuals who have intellectual/developmental disabilities.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication (written /verbal) skills; organizational skills; basic computer skills
- Ability to assess, develop and maintain care plans.
- Minimum of two (2) years’ equivalent work experience directly related to duties and responsibilities is strongly preferred.
- Maintained current certification in CPR for the Healthcare Provider.
Job Responsibilities:
The responsibilities of the LPN will include and not be limited to:
- Assist in the administration of medication (or supervise those who self-medicate), nursing services, and medical treatment needed during the recipient’s participation in Arc’s Day habilitation program.
- Coordinate participant’s care with all relevant parties (family, guardian, physicians, nursing facilities, and residential providers) and maintain appropriate documentation of such care.
- Maintain database of medical documentation appropriate to a participant’s inclusion in Day Hab services.
- Provide input/assist in the completion of a nursing assessment for each participant upon admission, upon significant change, and annually thereafter.
- Provide direct care and training in all relevant areas. (such as but not limited to: Anaphylaxis and Epi-Pen, Dysphagia and the Use of Thickening Agents, Seizures and the use of Vagal Nerve Simulators).
- Participate in interdisciplinary process for each participant.
- Comprehensive knowledge of community-based nursing care.
- Provide leadership necessary to ensure a positive team approach.
- Establish and maintain positive, professional relationships.
- Obtain reports and approval of treatment plans from primary care physicians.
- Review the nursing and medical services, developmental skills training program and needs of each member monthly.
- Participate in the quarterly review process for each participant.
- Participate in the completion of participant severity profiles.
- Assist in the completion of monthly nursing progress notes for each member addressing, at a minimum:
- Medical and nursing services.
- Any possible impact the participants’ medical status may have on his/her developmental skills training program.
- Conversely, any possible impact the participants’ developmental skills training program may have on his/her medical status; and
- Medical interventions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals with disabilities, we invite you to apply today and join our dedicated team at The Arc of Bristol County!
Employment compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
The physical demands of this position are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is regularly required to use hands in order to handle or feel objects, tools and controls; reach with hands or arms, stoop, kneel, talk and hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit and may occasionally be required to lift/transfer up to 50/70 lbs. alone or occasionally up to 200 lbs with the assistance of other staff. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Pay Range: $32 - $33 per hour
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