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Description:
Tasks
Schedule: Monday - Friday 3:00 pm-11:00pm
Provide physical assessments on all admissions. Administer medications in accordance with the provider’s order and the medical administration record (MAR). Provides periodic review of MARs in the group homes to confirm correct administration of medication for MCH youth. The practice area for Methodist Children's Homes (MCH) Licensed Practical Nurses is the MCH campus. MCH Licensed Practical Nurses report to the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.
Tasks
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
- Enhances current programs by coordinating the overall quality medical care of all residents.
- Conducts thorough physical assessments on clients.
- Coordinates and manages the ordering and set up of clients’ medications.
- Coordinates client appointments with the psychiatric nurse practitioner as well as medical providers (clinics).
- Manage the client's prescribed medications and monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
- Assists with admissions, discharges, emergencies and acute care referrals.
- Observes youth and report any changes in physical, social or emotional condition involving level of functioning, changes in attitude/behavior, loss of appetite, weight change or complaints of pain.
- Document data related to clients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
- Address safety hazards that may exist in the client’s daily activities, habits and living environment.
- Develop to the highest degree possible a normalized family-style home environment providing counseling, concern, direction, assistance and support for the youth in care.
- Consults and communicates with Psychiatrist(s), Physician(s) and/or Nurse Practitioner any changes in youth requiring medical interventions.
- Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
- Conduct client group and individual learning opportunities about health-related topics to include but not limited to medication side effects, physiologic changes experienced by MCH clients and treatment requirements for chronic conditions like diabetes.
- Performs miscellaneous projects and completes various tasks as requested by management.
- Electronic medical record (EMR) software - Therap
- Office suite software - Google suite, Microsoft Office suite
Tools
- Electronic blood pressure cuff
- Manual sphygmomanometer (blood pressure cuff)
- Battery operated oxygen saturation monitor
- Electronic scale
- Point of care blood glucose monitor
- Battery operated thermometer
- Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Work Activities
- Assisting and Caring for Others - Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers and clients
- Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written and electronic format
- Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work
- Integrity - Do what is right, honest, and respectful regardless of the situation.
- Teamwork - Work together in a way that maximizes accountability, stewardship, and communication.
- Safety - Create an environment that promotes physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
- Service - Commit to helping those we lead and those we follow.
- Compassion - Be kind and loving in all interactions.
Experience & Education
Valid LPN license (without restriction) for the State of Mississippi; experience in a mental health environment helpful.
