Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) | Long Term Care

Location: Avera Mary House – rotating days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays

About the role

Provides each resident with professional nursing care, assessment, and evaluations within your scope of practice as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Performs all licensed practical nursing functions and services as directed by the Registered Nurse.
• Completes assessments on residents, makes appropriate interventions, applies knowledge, prioritizes resident care, and uses the nursing process (assess, plan, implement, evaluate).
• Complies with all pharmaceutical policies and procedures; ensures medications and treatments are given safely and accurately in accordance with physician’s orders.
• Administers medications according to facility policy; competent in Pyxis medication administration system.
• Participates in the care planning process and ensures resident care is implemented consistently and appropriately for the age of those served.
• Initiates and updates plan of care as appropriate.
• Complies with standards of professional documentation.
• Communicates and manages the delivery of resident care, ensuring quality care is provided.
• Guides staff in meeting the needs of residents, practicing routines based on residents’ needs.
• Participates in physician rounds, communicates changes in resident condition to physician, and utilizes SBAR communication tool.
• Processes and transcribes physician’s orders and implements them according to facility policy.
• Seeks educational opportunities, shares knowledge with others, and assists with orientation of new staff.
• Investigates incidents and patient/family complaints; makes immediate report to VP of Resident Care or Administrator on-call.
• Facilitates conflict management while respecting diversity of people, their strengths, and ideas.

Requirements

• Ability to work the specified hours (rotating shifts including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays).
• Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Qualifications

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) with an active license in the state of practice (required upon hire).
• Less than 1 year of experience in Long Term Care (preferred).

Pay

$27.00 - $38.75 per hour, dependent upon experience.

Benefits

• Up to $6,000 sign-on bonus and $1,500 relocation bonus (may be eligible).
• Paid time off (PTO) available from day one for eligible hires.
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement.
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship.