About this role
Position Summary:
Functions as a total resident care giver, utilizing the nursing process in meeting the health care needs of residents in accordance with the Michigan Nurse Practice Act. Maintains resident privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and respects resident rights.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Performs purposeful hourly rounding including Pain, Position, Personal needs and Possessions
- Applies the nursing process in provision of resident care
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team in the formulation of a resident plan of care and its updating; and participates in team and family conferences as needed
- Provides nursing care to residents wound care, administers medication, etc.
- Implements the residents’ plan of care and enforces hospital policies
- Completes documentation forms and inputs data as required
- Demonstrates professionalism in the written and oral communication with residents, visitors, coworkers, physicians, and other health care members
- Demonstrates knowledge of correct operation and maintenance of equipment utilized for delivery of resident care, striving to prevent potential hazards to residents, visitors, and staff members
- Demonstrates organizational ability in obtaining and utilizing time, equipment, supplies, and resources necessary
- Performs resident discharge planning
- Encourages independence by residents in activities of daily living to the fullest extent possible
- Performs other department related duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Required:
- Graduate of approved school of practical nursing
- Licensed by State of Michigan
- BLS Certification
Preferred:
- Previous experience in long-term care or acute care setting
Other facts
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLaren’s seven (7) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.
What you'll do
- The Licensed Practical Nurse provides comprehensive care to residents, applying the nursing process and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team. Responsibilities include performing hourly rounding, administering medications, and maintaining documentation.
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