LPN

Position Summary:

The LPN provides youth with quality professional health services; to include: sick call, regular medical assessments, appropriate referrals for dental needs, daily triage of injuries and illnesses, record review, health screening and health education.

Essential Duties:

• Triage illness and injuries at each shift, determine medical priority, and treat within the scope of nursing practice; use physician standing orders, or referral when treatment is beyond the scope of nursing practice.

• Monitor and/or administer medications, document adverse effects of the medication, and any test that may be required for each medication. As needed, obtain prescription re-fills in timely fashion to maintain client medication needs.

• Conduct required health screenings including, but not limited to, height, weight, BMI, blood pressure, pulse, vision, hearing, acute and chronic illness evaluation, and substance abuse initial screenings. Screenings are to be conducted to meet or exceed state agency requirements.

• During orientation and on an annual basis, staff members and youth will receive instruction on the exposure control plan, which includes standard precautions, blood borne pathogens, and how communicable diseases are spread.

• Conduct sick call at frequency to meet or exceed state agency requirements. Complete agency logs as needed (to include, but not limited to sick call log, episodic care log, sharps count log, over the counter medication inventory log, and TB testing log). As agency logging requirements may vary from state to state, the RN will ensure that the logs required for a specific location are maintained.

• Document health care progress, problems, needs, and recommendations according to established charting procedures.

• Conduct check for injuries on youth after a restraint or other incident.

• Provide training and assistance in areas of infection control and OSHA compliance (i.e., blood borne pathogen standards, etc.) as needed.

• Systematically and periodically reviews client records and health care needs noting, but not limited to, immunization status, adherence to state guidelines, medication and food allergies, physical exam findings, dental and visual needs, diagnostic tests and medication changes.

Other Duties Include:

• Coordinate with safety teams quarterly mock emergency drills on a number of emergency situations with detailed debriefing and critiques.

• Provides staff training as required by state agency. Examples of training may include, but is not limited to first aid, universal precautions, use of epi-pens, and medication review for those staff cleared to monitor self-administration of medications. CPR training may also be provided if the LPN is a certified CPR trainer.

• Maintain ?Controlled Drug Book?, assuring that agency required forms are being used and signed by staff when medication is administered and when nurse or cleared representatives are conducting shift-to-shift medication counts.

• Participate in treatment team staffing as needed.

• Maintain health/first aid supplies, including, but not limited to the ordering epi-pens and bandaging units, ordering, and stocking other supplies, monitoring expiration dates, and monitoring/maintaining of Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).

• Participate in training and development activities as required to maintain licensure (based on state board of nursing recommendations).

• Perform other duties as assigned.