Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

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Job description

WANDER STAFFING seeks to add PRN Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses (LPNs/LVNs) to our Team ASAP! This position is located at the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH-G) in Gulfport, MS, 1800 Beach Dr, Gulfport, MS 39507.
Apply today for IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
Facility Information:
The Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH), a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), has been providing retired soldiers, airmen, and sailors a place to call home for more than a century and a half. Each site offers independent living, independent living plus, assisted living, long-term care, and memory support options for its residents. The population at each facility will be approximately 600 residents.
Compensation:

• Day Shift: $29.00/hr
• Swing Shift: $31.00/hr
• Night, Holiday, and any Weekend Shift: $32.50/hr
• PRN, W-2 position

Schedule: The facility is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. There is a paid Personnel Orientation. All personnel shall attend a twenty-four (24) hour orientation session before working any shifts. Orientation will be scheduled from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm.

• Four and a Half Hour Shifts (when available, can be put back to back for an 8 hour shift or be worked as a 4.5 hour shift)
  • Swing shift: 3 pm -7:30 pm CST
  • Swing shift: 7pm-11:30 pm CST
• Eight-Hour Schedules:
  • Day shift 7:00 am - 3:30 pm CST
  • Swing shift 3:00 pm - 11:30 pm CST
  • Night shift 11:00 pm - 7:30 am CST
• Twelve-Hour Schedules (these shifts are generally for weekends and Holidays):
  • Day shift 7:00 am - 7:30 pm CST
  • Night shift 7:00 pm - 7:00 am CST

Professional Requirements:

• Active license in good standing with the state of Mississippi
• Have one-year practical experience in geriatric care.
• Proper certification for IVs by LPN/LVNs is required.
• Current basic life support (BLS/CPR) certification to include cognitive and skills evaluation.
• Documentation of current influenza vaccination by the end of November /each year).
• Documentation of hepatitis B immunity, either by vaccination or serologic testing.
• Current TB test

LPN/LVN Core Duties. Provide comprehensive care appropriate to LPN/LVN training and licensure qualifications residents based on physician's medical plan, nursing care plan and the physical and psychosocial needs. Utilizes evidence-based practice in LPN/LVN standards related to care, judgment, documentation, assessment and all aspects regarding ethical and practical performance related to provision of care. RN provides oversight for LPN/LVNs. Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• Perform a range of diagnostic support duties, including taking vital signs, obtaining specimens, performing venipuncture (if certified), calling the laboratory for lab reports, recording lab reports given over the telephone, and assisting the physician in a variety of diagnostic examinations.
• Follow up on resident care and act as a liaison with other healthcare professionals regarding residents' needs for continuity of care.
• Perform a range of treatment procedures and maintenance that include but are not limited to, using hot and cold packs, extensive sterile dressing changes, giving enemas, inserting urinary catheters, passing medications, caring for residents in isolation, setting up and giving treatments that require auxiliary equipment such as oxygen and suction, tube feedings and doing EKG's. This person shall work under the direction of the RN and serve as a member of a nursing team with a written assignment.

Wander Staffing does not discriminate based on race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status in the provision of services or employment opportunities and benefits.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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