LPN (Fee For Service)

Responsibilities

MJHS Home Care provides advanced clinical services and emotional support to patients recovering from illness, injury, or surgery. With a comprehensive range of services supported by an integrated health system, patients can recover in the familiar surroundings of their home.

Someone with your depth of compassion, clinical insight and strong decision-making capabilities is the ideal person to map out and oversee the process of a patient’s recovery from illness, injury or surgery at home. You will provide a full range of advanced clinical home care services, including patient assessment, medication management and patient/family education.

• Under the direction of an RN, accurately observes, measures, records and reports clinical data related to a patient’s health status
• Accurately collect, communicate and document any sign(s) or symptom(s) outside of established parameters indicating a decline in an individual patient’s health status
• Under the direction of an RN, accurately reconciles and administers prescribed medications according to the physician prescribed plan of care
• Under the direction of an RN, accurately performs all nursing treatments (eg. Urinary catherization, sterile dressing change, tracheal suctioning) indicated in the physician prescribed plan of care

Qualifications

• NY State LPN License required
• Minimum of one year Med/surg experience in a hospital or Long-term Care facility required
• Must have a NY State Drivers License and a car
• Good computer skills required