Licensed Physical Therapist Asst. - Nursing Home jobs in Altoona, PA

Description

PURPOSE OF POSITION

Seeking caring compassionate, qualified LPN's. As an LPN at Garvey Manor you will have the opportunity to get to know your residents and lead your team of CNA's, while working alongside a competent and caring nursing staff. At Garvey Manor, employment is not just a job. We view our work as a ministry, an extension of the Carmelite Sisters Mission of caring for our residents.

Benefits offered to BOTH Full Time and Part Time! Excellent PTO Offered!

We, the employees of Garvey Manor, have been chosen to share the love of Christ with our residents. By offering our love, concern and hope to them and to each other, we show our dedication to respect the value and dignity of life. Quality of life and quality of care are guided by the values of the Christian faith in the Carmelite tradition.

God has blessed us with a gift and a responsibility a ministry of love and kinship. We are rewarded with smiles, laughter, affection, wisdom, appreciation and personal fulfillment.

We believe our services have become a ministry, renewing us to return God's riches in the work of our hands

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Direct Care

• Prepare and administer medications as ordered by the physician, verifying the identity of the resident before administering the medication/treatment.
• Communicate effectively and use appropriate interventions when providing care for residents with behavioral health issues, including dementia.
• Ensure that adequate supply of floor stock medications, supplies, and equipment is on hand to meet the nursing needs of the residents.
• Order prescribed medications, supplies, and equipment as necessary and in accordance with established procedures.
• Provide leadership to nursing personnel assigned to your shift. Follow all facility policies and procedures as well as applicable laws and regulations and ensure that staff reporting to you performs their functions in accordance to such policies, regulations and laws.
• Make daily rounds of your unit/shift to ensure that nursing service personnel are performing their work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards.
• Monitor nurse aides, care helpers, residents and visitors to ensure compliance with the departments established policies and procedures.
• Participate in nurse aide and care helper performance evaluations.
• Develop work assignments and/or assist in completing and performing such assignments.
• Ensure that disciplinary action is administered fairly and consistently and without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, age, gender, religion, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Participate in the orientation of new residents/families to the facility.
• Develop and maintain a good working rapport with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other departments within the facility to ensure that nursing services and activities can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Ensure that foods brought into the facility by families/visitors are within the residents dietary allowances and are in marked, dated containers.
• Assist in carrying out restorative and rehabilitative programs as necessary.
• Meet with resident and/or family as necessary.
• Follow facility policies and procedures regarding Antibiotic Stewardship.
• Ensure that the progress notes reflect that the care plan is being followed when administering care or treatment.
• Provide a safe, secure and home-like environment. Exercise care and concern for the property of the facility and of the resident.
• Administer professional services including, but not limited to:
  • Male/female catheterization: straight and indwelling (insertion/care of)
  • Enteral nutrition/Peg/J tube care and feeding
  • Suctioning oral/nasal
  • Colostomy/ileostomy care
  • Glucometers use/cleaning/maintenance
  • Injections (IM/SQ)
  • Wound management
  • Clean/sterile treatments
  • Vital signs
  • Obtaining specimens (sputum/urine/stool)
  • O2 therapy/Bipap use
• Treat all residents fairly and with kindness. Provide care and services in a manner which is respectful of resident’s rights and dignity and which allows residents the right to choose, including the right to refuse care/treatment.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident, family, and facility information and comply with applicable laws related to confidentiality (HIPAA).
• Provide a safe, secure, and home-like environment. Exercise care and concern for the property of the facility and residents’ belongings.

Communication

• Participate in and receive nursing report at the start and end of your shift.
• Report to the RN Supervisor any discrepancies noted concerning physician orders, diet changes, medication counts, charting errors, etc.
• Report to the RN Supervisor staffing needs when assigned personnel fail to report to work or have a need to leave early.
• Report to the RN Supervisor all accidents, incidents, changes in condition, complaints/concerns and grievances made by the residents/families.
• Report to RN Supervisor all allegations of resident abuse, neglect and/or misappropriation of property.
• Immediately notify the RN Supervisor of any resident leaving or missing from the facility.
• Attend all staff meetings and/or read minutes from staff meetings.

Documentation

• Record all documentation timely and accurately as assigned, legibly and accurately.
• Complete required documentation including, but not limited to:
  • Vitals/Intake
  • Daily charting in progress notes
  • Care plans (implementing/revising/resolving)
  • EMAR/ETAR/narcotic records/E box
  • Skin observation tool
  • Alarms/hearing aid use
• Review physician orders and ensure proper follow through is completed.
• Complete accident/incident reports and witness statements as necessary for resident/staff incidents.
• Sign all entries in the medical record; sign and date all entries that remain on paper.

Education: Must have successfully completed an accredited practical nurse or registered nurse training program

Qualifications

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Accountability: Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her own actions.

Assertiveness/ Initiative/Judgment: Able to act in a self-confident manner to complete an assignment or to defend a position or idea. Able to make independent decisions to solve a problem or meet a goal while following facility procedures.

Constructive Communication: Able to speak, write, listen and understand effectively with others.

Coaching/Mentoring/Development/Training: Ability to provide guidance and feedback to help others develop and strengthen specific knowledge and skill areas. May require ability to present information publicly.

Education and Learning: Able to participate in learning activities to obtain required skills.

Leadership: Able to organize, direct, and influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to use resident and facility resources to reach optimal outcomes. Make decisions, encourage others, and promote positive spirit.

Mission-Oriented: Able to provide care/services in a manner supportive of the Mission and Philosophy of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm.

Organized and Resourceful: Adaptable to change, creative/innovative, detail-oriented, conscientious of resident/facility property, self-directed, efficient, able to work under pressure.

Team Player: Considerate, empathetic, hospitable, able to work with and collaborate with others, patient, respectful of individual rights and diversity, service-oriented while following facility procedures.

Work Ethic: Able to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards. Honest, loyal, mission-oriented, reliable, responsible, and aware of safety requirements.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Education: Must have successfully completed an accredited practical nurse or registered nurse training program.

Experience: None required; on-the-job training provided.
Long-term care experience preferred.

Certificates & Licenses: Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an LPN or RN in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. May work under a practice permit as allowed by law.

• Is subject to hostile and emotionally upset residents, family members, personnel, visitors, etc.
• Is subject to call-back during emergency conditions (severe weather, evacuation, post-disaster, etc.).
• Attends and participates in continuing education programs.
• Is subject to injury from falls, burns from equipment, odors, etc., throughout the work day, as well as reactions from dust, disinfectants, and other air contaminants.
• Communicates with departmental personnel and other personnel as required.
• Works beyond normal working hours, on weekends and holidays, and in other positions temporarily when necessary.
• Is subject to exposure to infectious waste, diseases, conditions, etc., including TB and the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses.
• May be subject to the handling of and exposure to hazardous chemicals.