LPN Staff Nurse - Accolade Healthcare of Peoria

WOUND NURSE

RN/LPN

Let your nursing skills make a difference!!! Accolade Healthcare IS the premier provider for post-acute rehabilitation and long-term care in the area.   We are looking to add highly skilled nursing professionals to our wonderful team.

Because we understand the needs of a work/life balance we offer flexible scheduling. Whether you are looking to work full time or part time, desire to work days, evenings or nights, or prefer 8hr, or 12hr shifts – we can work with your schedule.

RN/LPN Job Responsibilities:

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

RN/LPN Job Duties:

• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.

LPN Skills and Qualifications:

Clinical Skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance