LPN (59904)
On-siteBridgeport, Connecticut, United States
Job Summary
Assist medical providers by transcribing orders accurately and document the self-administration of prescribed controlled and non-controlled medications. Verify, update, and file doctors' orders, dosage levels, and laboratory results while maintaining correctly stocked medication inventory and accurate logs. Observe clients, record significant conditions and reactions, and notify supervisors or physicians of changes in client status or drug responses. Provide medical education to clients served within the co-occurring enhanced intensive residential treatment program individually and in groups. Engage in ongoing training to enhance knowledge of co-occurring disorders and forward individual Kardex files to counselors monthly. Obtain PPD records and administer PPD tests to clients while maintaining records.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to provide caring and compassionate care
- Specialized judgment, skill in observation, care, and counseling of clients with co-occurring disorders
- Considerable knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations regarding client confidentiality
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to project a professional image
- LPN recognized in the State of Connecticut
- Ability to have manual dexterity sufficient to operate phones, computers, and other office equipment
- Physical ability to kneel, bend and perform light lifting
- Ability to write and speak clearly using the English language
- Ability to hear at normal speaking levels both in person and over the telephone
- Specific vision abilities including close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
- Ability to travel as required to work with staff
Desired Qualifications
- Previous experience in opiate treatment programming, co-occurring programming or similar community-based behavioral health organization
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