Licensed Practical Nurse PRN
Oceans Healthcare · Opelousas, LA · 1 mo ago
HealthcarePart-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings using for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the posting.
Posting content:
- Intro: "At Oceans Behavioral Hospital Opelousas, healing is our focus. We are passionate about helping adults and seniors manage the challenges associated with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Utilizing proven, innovative and progressive therapies, our qualified professionals strive to promote long-term wellness through a range of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling and treatment options."
That's about the role/hospital description.
- "The Licensed Practical Nurse's primary role is to provide nursing care for patients who are experiencing common, well-defined health problems. The LPN functions as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team, and utilizes the nursing process in implementation of patient's care. Those services are performed under the supervision of a registered nurse but utilize all nursing skills to make safe, appropriate and independent decisions within the scope of the LPN nursing practice. All duties to be done in accordance with Joint Commission, Federal and State regulations, Oceans' Mission, policies and procedures and Performance Improvement Standards."
That's about the role.
- "Essential Functions:" then a list of duties. We need to extract each duty as list items.
List of duties (starting after "Essential Functions:"):
1. Delivers quality nursing care to assigned group of patients by collecting data and identifying deviations from normal; assists with reassessing patients according to assignments, need and unit protocol and/or hospital policy under the direction of the registered nurse.
2. Accurately and thoroughly documents all findings in the patient record and identifies expected outcomes based on assessment data; effectively communicates pertinent assessment findings with other health care members.
3. Implements nursing care interventions identified in the individualized multidisciplinary treatment plan using accepted standards of practice in collaboration with other health care providers; performs nursing procedures/treatments as prescribed by physician/LIP.
4. Conducts specified bedside laboratory tests, wound care, and provides for comfort and assistance in the performance of ADLs;Promotes the patient's ability to cope, adapt and/or solve situations related to illness and/or stressors.
5. Provides supportive, age appropriate communication and culturally acceptable interventions and documents special needs.
6. Provides for the safe delivery of medications in accordance with the facility policies and physician orders; administers medications utilizing established safety procedures / standards.
7. Ensures patients are effectively assessed prior to and after medication administration.
8. Accurately communicates/documents medication doses prescribed, and provides patient education on medication administered.
9. Follows up on patient care responsibilities; communicates incomplete assignments and patient needs with other disciplines to assure continuity of care; transcribes orders accurately and performs chart audits of transcription accurately and according to facility guidelines.
10. Utilizes nursing knowledge to successfully meet the needs of the facility, patient population and staff members.
11. Utilizes nursing resources to enhance evidence-based practice.
12. Guides, educates, and provides leadership as a preceptor to new staff.
13. Performs other duties and projects as assigned.
We need to format as
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the posting.
Posting content:
- Intro: "At Oceans Behavioral Hospital Opelousas, healing is our focus. We are passionate about helping adults and seniors manage the challenges associated with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Utilizing proven, innovative and progressive therapies, our qualified professionals strive to promote long-term wellness through a range of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling and treatment options."
That's about the role/hospital description.
- "The Licensed Practical Nurse's primary role is to provide nursing care for patients who are experiencing common, well-defined health problems. The LPN functions as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team, and utilizes the nursing process in implementation of patient's care. Those services are performed under the supervision of a registered nurse but utilize all nursing skills to make safe, appropriate and independent decisions within the scope of the LPN nursing practice. All duties to be done in accordance with Joint Commission, Federal and State regulations, Oceans' Mission, policies and procedures and Performance Improvement Standards."
That's about the role.
- "Essential Functions:" then a list of duties. We need to extract each duty as list items.
List of duties (starting after "Essential Functions:"):
1. Delivers quality nursing care to assigned group of patients by collecting data and identifying deviations from normal; assists with reassessing patients according to assignments, need and unit protocol and/or hospital policy under the direction of the registered nurse.
2. Accurately and thoroughly documents all findings in the patient record and identifies expected outcomes based on assessment data; effectively communicates pertinent assessment findings with other health care members.
3. Implements nursing care interventions identified in the individualized multidisciplinary treatment plan using accepted standards of practice in collaboration with other health care providers; performs nursing procedures/treatments as prescribed by physician/LIP.
4. Conducts specified bedside laboratory tests, wound care, and provides for comfort and assistance in the performance of ADLs;Promotes the patient's ability to cope, adapt and/or solve situations related to illness and/or stressors.
5. Provides supportive, age appropriate communication and culturally acceptable interventions and documents special needs.
6. Provides for the safe delivery of medications in accordance with the facility policies and physician orders; administers medications utilizing established safety procedures / standards.
7. Ensures patients are effectively assessed prior to and after medication administration.
8. Accurately communicates/documents medication doses prescribed, and provides patient education on medication administered.
9. Follows up on patient care responsibilities; communicates incomplete assignments and patient needs with other disciplines to assure continuity of care; transcribes orders accurately and performs chart audits of transcription accurately and according to facility guidelines.
10. Utilizes nursing knowledge to successfully meet the needs of the facility, patient population and staff members.
11. Utilizes nursing resources to enhance evidence-based practice.
12. Guides, educates, and provides leadership as a preceptor to new staff.
13. Performs other duties and projects as assigned.
We need to format as - each.
- "Requirements Education / Experience:" then list:
- Current, valid, and active license to practice as a Licensed Vocational/Practical Nurse in the state of which you are employed. Valid Compact licenses are also acceptable as they apply.
- High School Diploma or GED is required.
- One year of inpatient hospital experience strongly preferred.
We can treat as Requirements section.
- "Qualifications / Skills:" then list:
- Must be able to work in high stress and assess potential for patient escalation.
- The LVN/LPN must be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, to consistently achieve positive results with internal and external customers, be highly organized, have an understanding and sensitivity to serve culturally diverse and special needs population such as Chronically Mentally Ill, Geriatric, CD, as well as be versed in basic knowledge of normal physical and emotional development.
- Exhibits critical thinking abilities and applies them for continuous improvement of patient care.
- Demonstrates self-confidence and ability to think conceptually in leading and directing others.
- Must successfully complete CPR certification and an Oceans approved behavioral health de-escalation program.
We could split into Qualifications and Skills sections, but we can combine as one section maybe "Qualifications / Skills". However the instruction says use headings like Qualifications, Skills separately if content exists. We have content for both qualifications and skills. Could separate: Qualifications (license, education, experience) and Skills (communication, stress, etc). But we already have Requirements for license/education/experience. Then Qualifications could be things like "Must be able to work in high stress..." etc. Skills could be communication, critical thinking, etc. However the posting lumps them under "Qualifications / Skills". To follow instruction, we could create a section
Qualifications
with bullet points that are qualifications, and Skills
with bullet points that are skills. But we need to decide what belongs where.
Better: Use "Requirements" for license/education/experience. Use "Qualifications" for the items about high stress, communication, organization, cultural sensitivity, critical thinking, self-confidence, CPR certification, de-escalation program. Use "Skills" maybe not needed if we already covered. But we could split: Qualifications: license, education, experience (but that's already Requirements). Actually typical: Requirements = education/experience; Qualifications = certifications, etc; Skills = abilities. However we have limited time. Let's create sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (license/education/experience), Qualifications (high stress, communication, organization, cultural sensitivity, critical thinking, self-confidence, CPR certification, de-escalation), Skills (maybe we can omit if no distinct skills left). But we have communication etc already in Qualifications. Could treat Skills as separate for things like "ability to work in high stress", "assess potential for patient escalation", "communicate effectively", "highly organized", "understanding and sensitivity", "basic knowledge of normal physical and emotional development", "critical thinking abilities", "self-confidence", "think conceptually", "CPR certification", "behavioral health de-escalation". That's a mix.
Given the instruction to prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones, we could combine Qualifications and Skills into one section called "Qualifications & Skills". But the instruction says use headings like Qualifications, Skills. It didn't forbid combining? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't say we must use each separately; we can choose which to include. So we can include a heading "Qualifications & Skills" if we want, but better to follow examples: they gave examples but not mandatory to use exactly those. However they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are typical headings we can use. We can also use other headings? Probably they expect those exact headings if content exists. But we can also combine? Safer to separate into Qualifications and Skills if we can split content meaningfully.
Let's attempt to split:
Qualifications (certifications, experience preferences):
- Current, valid, and active license to practice as a Licensed Vocational/Practical Nurse in the state of which you are employed. Valid Compact licenses are also acceptable as they apply.
- High School Diploma or GED is required.
- One year of inpatient hospital experience strongly preferred.
- Must successfully complete CPR certification and an Oceans approved behavioral health de-escalation program.
Skills (abilities):
- Must be able to work in high stress and assess potential for patient escalation.
- Able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, to consistently achieve positive results with internal and external customers.
- Highly organized.
- Understanding and sensitivity to serve culturally diverse and special needs population such as Chronically Mentally Ill, Geriatric, CD.
- Versed in basic knowledge of normal physical and emotional development.
- Exhibits critical thinking abilities and applies them for continuous improvement of patient care.
- Demonstrates self-confidence and ability to think conceptually in leading and directing others.
That seems reasonable.
Now Benefits, Pay, Schedule: posting does not mention any benefits, pay, schedule. So we omit those sections.
Now About the role: we have intro paragraph(s). We'll put that in
.
Responsibilities: essential functions list.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
Let's craft:
About the role
At Oceans Behavioral Hospital Opelousas, healing is our focus. We are passionate about helping adults and seniors manage the challenges associated with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Utilizing proven, innovative and progressive therapies, our qualified professionals strive to promote long-term wellness through a range of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling and treatment options. The Licensed Practical Nurse's primary role is to provide nursing care for patients who are experiencing common, well-defined health problems. The LPN functions as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team, and utilizes the nursing process in implementation of patient's care. Those services are performed under the supervision of a registered nurse but utilize all nursing skills to make safe, appropriate and independent decisions within the scope of the LPN nursing practice. All duties to be done in accordance with Joint Commission, Federal and State regulations, Oceans' Mission, policies and procedures and Performance Improvement Standards.
Responsibilities
- Delivers quality nursing care to assigned group of patients by collecting data and identifying deviations from normal; assists with reassessing patients according to assignments, need and unit protocol and/or hospital policy under the direction of the registered nurse.
- Accurately and thoroughly documents all findings in the patient record and identifies expected outcomes based on assessment data; effectively communicates pertinent assessment findings with other health care members.
- Implements nursing care interventions identified in the individualized multidisciplinary treatment plan using accepted standards of practice in collaboration with other health care providers; performs nursing procedures/treatments as prescribed by physician/LIP.
- Conducts specified bedside laboratory tests, wound care, and provides for comfort and assistance in the performance of ADLs; promotes the patient's ability to cope, adapt and/or solve situations related to illness and/or stressors.
- Provides supportive, age appropriate communication and culturally acceptable interventions and documents special needs.
- Provides for the safe delivery of medications in accordance with the facility policies and physician orders; administers medications utilizing established safety procedures / standards.
- Ensures patients are effectively assessed prior to and after medication administration.
- Accurately communicates/documents medication doses prescribed, and provides patient education on medication administered.
- Follows up on patient care responsibilities; communicates incomplete assignments and patient needs with other disciplines to assure continuity of care; transcribes orders accurately and performs chart audits of transcription accurately and according to facility guidelines.
- Utilizes nursing knowledge to successfully meet the needs of the facility, patient population and staff members.
- Utilizes nursing resources to enhance evidence-based practice.
- Guides, educates, and provides leadership as a preceptor to new staff.
- Performs other duties and projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Current, valid, and active license to practice as a Licensed Vocational/Practical Nurse in the state of which you are employed. Valid Compact licenses are also acceptable as they apply.
- High School Diploma or GED is required.
- One year of inpatient hospital experience strongly preferred.
- Must successfully complete CPR certification and an Oceans approved behavioral health de-escalation program.
Qualifications
- Must be able to work in high stress
Qualifications
with bullet points that are qualifications, andSkills
with bullet points that are skills. But we need to decide what belongs where. Better: Use "Requirements" for license/education/experience. Use "Qualifications" for the items about high stress, communication, organization, cultural sensitivity, critical thinking, self-confidence, CPR certification, de-escalation program. Use "Skills" maybe not needed if we already covered. But we could split: Qualifications: license, education, experience (but that's already Requirements). Actually typical: Requirements = education/experience; Qualifications = certifications, etc; Skills = abilities. However we have limited time. Let's create sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (license/education/experience), Qualifications (high stress, communication, organization, cultural sensitivity, critical thinking, self-confidence, CPR certification, de-escalation), Skills (maybe we can omit if no distinct skills left). But we have communication etc already in Qualifications. Could treat Skills as separate for things like "ability to work in high stress", "assess potential for patient escalation", "communicate effectively", "highly organized", "understanding and sensitivity", "basic knowledge of normal physical and emotional development", "critical thinking abilities", "self-confidence", "think conceptually", "CPR certification", "behavioral health de-escalation". That's a mix. Given the instruction to prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones, we could combine Qualifications and Skills into one section called "Qualifications & Skills". But the instruction says use headings like Qualifications, Skills. It didn't forbid combining? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't say we must use each separately; we can choose which to include. So we can include a heading "Qualifications & Skills" if we want, but better to follow examples: they gave examples but not mandatory to use exactly those. However they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are typical headings we can use. We can also use other headings? Probably they expect those exact headings if content exists. But we can also combine? Safer to separate into Qualifications and Skills if we can split content meaningfully.
Let's attempt to split:
Qualifications (certifications, experience preferences):
- Current, valid, and active license to practice as a Licensed Vocational/Practical Nurse in the state of which you are employed. Valid Compact licenses are also acceptable as they apply.
- High School Diploma or GED is required.
- One year of inpatient hospital experience strongly preferred.
- Must successfully complete CPR certification and an Oceans approved behavioral health de-escalation program.
Skills (abilities):
- Must be able to work in high stress and assess potential for patient escalation.
- Able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, to consistently achieve positive results with internal and external customers.
- Highly organized.
- Understanding and sensitivity to serve culturally diverse and special needs population such as Chronically Mentally Ill, Geriatric, CD.
- Versed in basic knowledge of normal physical and emotional development.
- Exhibits critical thinking abilities and applies them for continuous improvement of patient care.
- Demonstrates self-confidence and ability to think conceptually in leading and directing others.
That seems reasonable.
Now Benefits, Pay, Schedule: posting does not mention any benefits, pay, schedule. So we omit those sections.
Now About the role: we have intro paragraph(s). We'll put that in
. Responsibilities: essential functions list. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown. Let's craft:
About the role
At Oceans Behavioral Hospital Opelousas, healing is our focus. We are passionate about helping adults and seniors manage the challenges associated with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Utilizing proven, innovative and progressive therapies, our qualified professionals strive to promote long-term wellness through a range of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling and treatment options. The Licensed Practical Nurse's primary role is to provide nursing care for patients who are experiencing common, well-defined health problems. The LPN functions as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team, and utilizes the nursing process in implementation of patient's care. Those services are performed under the supervision of a registered nurse but utilize all nursing skills to make safe, appropriate and independent decisions within the scope of the LPN nursing practice. All duties to be done in accordance with Joint Commission, Federal and State regulations, Oceans' Mission, policies and procedures and Performance Improvement Standards.
Responsibilities
- Delivers quality nursing care to assigned group of patients by collecting data and identifying deviations from normal; assists with reassessing patients according to assignments, need and unit protocol and/or hospital policy under the direction of the registered nurse.
- Accurately and thoroughly documents all findings in the patient record and identifies expected outcomes based on assessment data; effectively communicates pertinent assessment findings with other health care members.
- Implements nursing care interventions identified in the individualized multidisciplinary treatment plan using accepted standards of practice in collaboration with other health care providers; performs nursing procedures/treatments as prescribed by physician/LIP.
- Conducts specified bedside laboratory tests, wound care, and provides for comfort and assistance in the performance of ADLs; promotes the patient's ability to cope, adapt and/or solve situations related to illness and/or stressors.
- Provides supportive, age appropriate communication and culturally acceptable interventions and documents special needs.
- Provides for the safe delivery of medications in accordance with the facility policies and physician orders; administers medications utilizing established safety procedures / standards.
- Ensures patients are effectively assessed prior to and after medication administration.
- Accurately communicates/documents medication doses prescribed, and provides patient education on medication administered.
- Follows up on patient care responsibilities; communicates incomplete assignments and patient needs with other disciplines to assure continuity of care; transcribes orders accurately and performs chart audits of transcription accurately and according to facility guidelines.
- Utilizes nursing knowledge to successfully meet the needs of the facility, patient population and staff members.
- Utilizes nursing resources to enhance evidence-based practice.
- Guides, educates, and provides leadership as a preceptor to new staff.
- Performs other duties and projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Current, valid, and active license to practice as a Licensed Vocational/Practical Nurse in the state of which you are employed. Valid Compact licenses are also acceptable as they apply.
- High School Diploma or GED is required.
- One year of inpatient hospital experience strongly preferred.
- Must successfully complete CPR certification and an Oceans approved behavioral health de-escalation program.
Qualifications
- Must be able to work in high stress