LPN - Lincoln, NE

About the role

Become part of the KARE HERO Community and find the support you need to get started and stay booked.

Responsibilities

• Earn extra income using the license you already have.
• Control your own schedule and work when you want!
• Access to potential new employers! – no contracts or long-term commitments.
• Find your next permanent position with the KARE app.
• Unlike an agency, if one of our client communities wants to hire you, we don’t charge anything. In fact, many of our Heroes use our KARE app to find their next permanent position!
• Work in any state in which you are licensed!
• Ensure that the individual service plan is followed; administer or supervise treatments prescribed by physician.
• Make meaningful rounds to all residents, utilizing service plans; make rounds with physicians and record visits on charts.
• Administer all intramuscular, sub-cutaneous injections; perform all in-house testing procedures; take and record vital signs.
• Document acute episodes or significant changes in resident status.
• Work with Activity Director, DON , and Nurse Aides in carrying out the activities program.
• Handle the preparation and administration of prescribed medications.
• Order all new medications and refills; administer all medications and chart.
• Chart on his/her shift in accordance with facility policy, state guidelines and residents status.
• Serve as a liaison between the resident and the medical staff.
• Supervise serving of prescribed diets and fluid intake; report persistent unresolved problems to the physician and/or DON or appropriate discipline.
• Timely and accurately prepare incident reports.
• Timely and accurately complete admission assessments and appropriate discharge documentation.
• Supervise residents who self-administer medication while following community and regulatory guidelines
• Provide assistance as needed with medication reminders, bathing, grooming, dressing, escort service, and other activities of daily living.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/Skills/Educational Requirements

• Requires a LPN license.
• Ability to lift at least 51 lbs on a regular basis and ability to help residents who require physical assistance.
• Fluently read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• May require experience with caring for residents with memory impairment if assigned to memory care areas of a community.