LPN (3:00pm-11:30pm)

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Implement patient care in an assigned patient load.
• Observe, document, and monitor each patient’s psychiatric and physical changes and responses to treatment under the direction of the registered nurse (RN).
• Admission data collection;
• Discharge transcribing of information in preparation for discharge;
• Meditation reconciliation on admission and discharge;
• Medication administration (See, ‘E’ below).
• Identify potential patient care problems, abrupt changes or impending instability in the patient’s condition, and exercise appropriate intervention leadership to prevent adverse patient outcomes.
• Use appropriate de-escalation techniques: quiet room, locked seclusion, or restraints.
• Evaluate safety level.
• Identify alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
• Identify significant cardiac and/or respiratory symptoms requiring immediate medical intervention.
• Implement patient care based on established care plans, Hospital policies and procedures, and unit standards of care, incorporating the patient’s age-specific and cultural needs as appropriate.
• Provide care in complex patient situations (as defined by the hospital) under the standards of the State that they provide care in; under the general supervision of the R.O, physician or other State approved medical professional.

Education and Training Requirements

• Licensed Practical Nurse licensed by Wisconsin State Board of Nursing or the State of the Rogers clinical facility.
• American Heart Association Healthcare Provider CPR certification or American Red Cross Professional Rescue is required within thirty (30) days of date-of-hire.
• Annual re-certification is required.
• Formal training in management of the aggressive patient within sixty (60) days of date-of-hire.
• Annual re-certification is required.
• Previous psychiatric experience with children, adolescents and adults is preferred.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Employee share program.
• Life/disability insurance.
• Flex spending accounts.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Health and wellness program.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Pay

• Up to *$3,000.00 retention bonus available! (New Employee is defined as someone who has not been employed with Rogers for more than six months)

Schedule

• PM shift (3:00pm-11:30pm).