LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) PRN – Genesis Behavioral Hospital – Breaux Bridge, LA

Genesis Behavioral Hospital is a healthcare system that provides inpatient and outpatient services to adults. The hospital is looking for PRN Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) to work as needed (PRN), (4 hr, 8 hr, or 12 hr shifts). The LPN functions as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team and utilizes the nursing process in the implementation of patient care. Those services are performed under the supervision of a registered nurse and utilize standardized procedures with predictable outcomes.

Responsibilities and Duties

Some of the responsibilities and duties of the LPN are as follows but are not limited to:

Patient Care:

Provides direct patient care in the inpatient psychiatric unit.
Communicates with medical staff regarding patient symptoms and obtains orders for medication administration.
Documents physicians’ orders given by telephone in the medical record and ensures that orders are followed through and carried over to the Medication Administration Record.
Communicates with Pharmacy to ensure accurate and complete medication administration to all patients on the unit.
Administers medications utilizing established safety procedures/standards in compliance with Physician’s orders, company policies, and regulatory guidelines.
Ensures patients are effectively assessed prior to and after medication administration.
Accurately communicates/ documents medication doses prescribed.
Demonstrates knowledge of medications, calculations, and administering techniques.
Transcribes orders accurately and performs chart audits of transcription accurately and according to facility guidelines.
Provides medical care as ordered to patients admitted to the inpatient unit.
Educates patients on medications, dosage guidelines, uses, and side effects to ensure informed consent.
Assists team in managing patient crisis by administering PRN medications directed by physician’s orders.
Implements nursing care interventions identified in the individualized multidisciplinary treatment plan using accepted standards of practice in collaboration with other health care providers.
Performs nursing procedures/treatments as prescribed by physician/LIP
Assists patients, as needed, in the performance of activities of daily living.
Promotes the patient’s ability to cope, adapt, and/or solve situations related to illness and/or stressors.
Provides supportive, age-appropriate communication and culturally acceptable interventions and documents special needs.
Maintains compliance with Infection Control standards and policies in all aspects of patient care.

Documentation

Reconciles patient medication lists upon admission and documents in the medical record.
Completes and documents first dose review with pharmacy.
Ensures new orders are carried out and documented on the Medication Administration Record (MAR) and documents all medications administered in the patient’s MAR.
Documents all missed dosages, refusals, and medication errors according to policy, nursing standards, and regulatory guidelines.
Assist with reassessing patients according to assignments, need, unit protocol, and/or hospital policy under the direction of the registered nurse and documents as needed.
Accurately and thoroughly documents all findings in the patient record.
Identifies expected outcomes based on assessment data.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Frequently required to move about the office and outdoors while interacting with patients, staff, other service providers, and while operating office equipment such as computers, phones, copiers/fax machines, and filing cabinets.
Frequent expressing or exchanging ideas verbally to staff, patients, and other providers.
Frequently required to grasp, handle or feel; and extend hands and arms in all directions.
Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

This position is occasionally performed in outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to respiratory hazards, combative patients, blood pathogens and body fluids, and infectious diseases.

Qualifications and Skills