Licensed Practical Nurse- Part Time

Responsibilities

• Participates in treatment planning:
  • Identifies patients’ problems, needs and strengths
  • Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients’ behavior
  • Provides input into discharge planning
• Implements patients’ treatment plans by:
  • Monitoring patients’ progress
  • Communicating information regarding patients’ behavior to other members of treatment team
  • Maintaining communication with patient, family members and referral sources in patient’s interest
  • Facilitating or co-facilitating didactic groups, community meetings, or drug or alcohol education groups
  • Encouraging and facilitating patients’ participation in therapeutic activities
  • Supervising patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment
  • Providing input during shift report
• Updates treatment care plans.
• Assists dietary staff in identifying patients on special diets and assuring patients’ compliance with dietary orders.
• Administers patient medications prescribed by physician.
• Helps maintain the therapeutic milieu on the unit, including, but not limited to, facilitation of community meetings.
• Maintains patient, program, department and related documentation.
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
• Effectively manages psychiatric crisis emergency situations.

Qualifications

• LPN Program Completion from an accredited School of Nursing required.
• CPR training will be provided.
• South Carolina LPN license with current registration required.
• Multi-state license with South Carolina included in the compact is also acceptable.