Licensed Practical Nurse

Summary: To deliver care to individuals in an ICF/IID residential setting utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation and in collaboration with other professional disciplines to ensure effective care delivery and achievement of desired outcomes of individuals served.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Consults and coordinates with health care team to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individual’s nursing care plan.
• Ensures physician orders are properly documented and followed accurately.
• Draws labs as ordered by physician and documents in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Provides nursing care according to policies and procedures in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act and with the Office of Long Term Care regulations for ICF/IID facilities.
• Prepares and administers (orally, subcutaneously, or through an IV) and records prescribed medications.
• Follows procedures for counting, documenting, and storing medications, including narcotics, received from the pharmacy and from the individual’s parent/guardian upon admission and/or return to the facility.
• Follows procedures for counting, documenting, and disposing of medications, including narcotics.
• Documents and reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments to Medical Director or designee, DON and Director/Administrator as defined in policies and procedures.
• Records and reports medication errors and incidents/accidents as soon as made aware of the error, incident, or accident.
• Records an individual’s medical information, change in status, and vitals when there is an emergent change in the individual’s status. Reports emergent changes in individual’s status to the Medical Director or designee, On-Call RN, and Director/Administrator.
• Completes and documents assessment of individual prior to individual leaving the facility and when the individual returns to the facility and when there is an incident/accident involving the individual.
• Accurately charts response to plan of care and care given in the medical record including monthly vitals of individual. Maintains the medical record of individual served.
• Assists Habilitation staff, as needed, in providing personal care (changing, bathing, feeding, etc.) to individuals.
• Assists, as needed, in transporting (driving ESA van or riding with individual) individuals for clinic appointments and hospitalizations.
• Adheres to and enforces facility infection control policies and procedures.
• Protects and promotes rights of individuals served.
• Communicates with families of individuals served, other staff, physicians, pharmacies, other facilities, and support organizations in person and by telephone as individuals' needs and condition warrants.
• Reports concerns that may significantly impact care of individuals served, safety and security to the DON.
• Provides nursing functions at Butler Adult Living Center as assigned.

Compliance/HIPAA

While performing the duties of this job, employee will comply with all federal, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to Easterseals Arkansas.

Employee has access to all client protected health information within his/her program. Employee will not attempt to access any other protected health information unless otherwise approved by Supervisor or Privacy Officer.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Degree from an accredited LPN program and current LPN License.

Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively with individuals receiving services with diverse ability levels and employees with diverse experience and knowledge levels.
• Ability to be self-directed, creative and to take initiative.
• Demonstrated commitment to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Current Nursing License by the AR State Board of Nursing

Valid Arkansas Driver's License

Physical Demands

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to lift twenty (20 pounds).
• Moving, lifting, or transferring of individuals with assists (2 or 3 person) for individuals weighing thirty (30) pounds or more unless documented differently in individual health care record.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and be performing tasks involving blood/body fluids. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Easterseals Arkansas has designated this position as a “non-safety sensitive” position under the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment.