Licensed Practical Nurse - Nursing Home jobs in Topeka, KS

Have you thought about HOME HEALTH? You use all your skills and work independently.

Do you miss getting to spend time with your patients?

With Home Town Health Care, you will get all these things, and so much more!

Home Town is a growing Home Health and Hospice agency that creates a positive atmosphere for our staff. Home health allows clinicians to slow down, care for patients one-on-one, treat, heal, and educate patients and families in the safety of their own home. Our home health nurses say this is the most rewarding field of healthcare!

Home Town Health Care is a nurse-owned, family-operated company with the best staff in the country. Home Town Health Care understands and respects that family is a top priority in your life.

Duties include:

Provides skilled nursing in the home as ordered on the plan of treatment and nursing care plan

Evaluates the significance of assessment findings and communicates any pertinent information about the patient’s clinical status and ongoing needs to others in a timely fashion

Ability to assess adequately and reassess pain

Utilizes appropriate pain management techniques

Educates the patient and family regarding pain management

Demonstrates knowledge of medications and their correct administration based on age of the patient and patient’s clinical position

Follows the five (5) medication rights and reduces the potential for medication errors

Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors

Functions as a team member demonstrating collaboration with, and responsibility to patient, physician, interdisciplinary team

Performs patient care responsibilities considering needs to the standard of care for patient’s age

Addresses and supports cultural practices, as long as such practices do not harm others or interfere with the planned course of medical therapy

Promotes patient/family/caregiver education using various verbal and written communication techniques that take into account the patient’s/family’s cultural, ethnic and/or personal needs or preferences

Completes and submits necessary documentation in accordance with Agency policy and applicable regulations

Submits verification of completed visits in accordance with Agency policy

Maintains current knowledge of community resources

Identifies and assesses appropriate external and internal resources to meet patient and/or family needs and to facilitate optimal patient outcomes while home care services are being procedures, and for transfer and discharge processes

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing program

Current state licensures as a LPN

Valid state driver’s license

Preferred:

Prior home healthcare experience

Benefits