Licensed Practical Nurse

Job description

Our Company ResCare Community Living: Overview: Plans and manages patient care according to each patient's needs. Interviews patients and records their medical history and physical condition. Obtains patient vital signs, including pulse, blood pressure, temperature, and respiration. Provides routine care for patients. Responsibilities: - Provide 1:1 care for client always following client’s plan of care while maintaining client's dignity and independence - Monitoring clients’ vital statistics and reporting abnormal findings to the case manager and physician assessments - Performs medication administration, feedings, oxygen, ostomy care as needed per client's plan of care and provided assessments of results - Complete routines as established by other care professionals such as Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, and Speech Therapist - Ensures infection control policies are maintained at all times, reports possible communicable diseases or infections, and ensures the overall implementation and practice of infection control procedures are implemented - Accurately documents nursing actions of all care given and communicates with family, case manager, and physicians as well as d...