LPN

As a member of our team, the Licensed Practical Nurse assumes responsibility for nursing services delivered to residents including but not limited to direct care, treatment and medication administration and daily assignment direction. An effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position, however, this does not imply that the following are the only duties required to perform: Initiate investigations of incident accident reports, specialty assessments and participate in care planning process in coordinating nursing services with other discipline services Attend ongoing in-service education programs and provides on-unit orientation for new staff Observe, report, and documents changes in condition to other health care staff, resident and family/legal responsible party Qualifications Current Wisconsin license as a Licensed Practical Nurse Ability to handle crisis intervention situations as directed and effectively carry out instructions Practices comprehensive nursing techniques Work Environment & Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Specific hearing abilities required by this job include, hearing conversation in noisy and quiet environments, locating a sound source and differentiating among non-speech sounds, communicating through speech. Ability to adapt to changes in daily work hour and schedule. Initiate timely emergency resuscitation measures according to adult resuscitation and advanced life support protocols. Risk of blood borne pathogen exposure is considered high.