LPN Staff- Behavior Health, Full Time, Nights
On-siteDecatur, Alabama, United States
Job Summary
Assess patients, identify risks, and implement individualized care plans based on physician orders and nursing judgment. Administer medications and treatments safely while monitoring responses to interventions. Provide pre- and post-operative care, including wound management, pain control, and mobility support to promote early ambulation and discharge readiness. Educate patients and families on diagnoses, medications, and discharge instructions while advocating for their preferences and safety. Collaborate with physicians, case managers, and interdisciplinary teams to coordinate care, utilizing structured handoff tools like SBAR. Maintain accurate documentation in the electronic health record and participate in daily huddles, rounds, and quality improvement activities. Respond promptly to emergencies, initiating appropriate interventions such as CPR or rapid response activation.
Required Qualifications
- Uses common sense and special medical skills to care for the sick
- Understands technical information from supervisors, charts, reference books, manuals and labels
- Uses eyes, ears, hands and fingers with skill
- Acts quickly in an emergency, rendering appropriate life-saving measures
- Communicates with people
- Change from one duty to another frequently
- Follow and/or give precise instructions
- Records and interprets information accurately
- Able to care for patients of all ages
- Current in BLS
- Reasoning Development: Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
- Mathematical Development: Practical application of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion in addition to basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division abilities
- Language Development: Reading: Read scientific and technical journals, abstracts, and financial reports
- Language Development: Speaking: Communicates verbally using effective voice tone, diction and medical terminology
- Data: Gathers, complies and classifies information about patients and other people
- Data: Analyzes and interprets data to carry out plan of care for the patient
- People: Speaking, hearing, talking with people to convey or exchange information
- People: Includes giving directions to staff, patients, families and/or visitors
- Things: Manual dexterity: Use of body members or special devices to work, and perform functions pertinent to accomplishment of job assignment
- Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Possesses a nursing license in good standing in the State of Alabama
Desired Qualifications
- Prior nursing experience preferred, but not required
- Certified Medical Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN) preferred
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