Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)- Nights

About the role

The LPN is responsible for providing holistic nursing care to clients currently participating in the Agency’s Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF). Through actively working to achieve clients’ trust, the LPN will develop therapeutic relationships with residential clients and will provide quality patient care. Further, the LPN will collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in the evaluation of the client’s treatment process. Thus, the LPN will have the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner, while demonstrating the ability to work well with others and maintain professionalism. The LPN is supervised by the PRTF Nurse Manager. Bellefaire JCB is among the nation’s largest, most experienced child service agencies providing a variety of behavioral health, substance abuse, education and prevention, and autism services. Through more than 25 programs, we help more than 30,000 youth and their families each year achieve resiliency, dignity and self-sufficiency. Bellefaire JCB is a partner agency of the Wingspan Care Group, a non-profit administrative service organization providing a united, community-based network of services so member agencies can focus on mission-related goals and operate in a more cost-effective and efficient manner.

Responsibilities

• Assist providers, registered nurses and other health care professionals with examinations, treatments, and procedures.
• Obtain patient health history, laboratory specimens, and vital signs within your scope of practice.
• Implement provider orders as well as administer medication and document that the necessary medication was administered as ordered.
• Submit regular reports to the provider as requested.
• Utilize knowledge of medications (psychotropic and other) in the treatment process and educate clients and residential staff regarding medications and client health care needs.
• Adapt to changing situations and/or work assignments as well as provide services to both areas of behavioral health and autism residential treatment.
• Consult with PRTF staff as needed to ensure quality client care.
• Collect objective and subjective client data, report symptoms, reactions, treatments, and changes in client's conditions to the registered nurse or provider.
• Complete and maintain documentation as required to record such client data, reactions, and/or changes in conditions.
• Utilize therapeutic verbal and non-verbal techniques with clients as needed.
• As necessary,