Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse; LPN​/LVN

Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN)

Aveanna Healthcare is hiring a Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN). The role involves providing and documenting skilled nursing care in accordance with the care plan and physicians’ orders for each patient, while maintaining confidentiality and professional boundaries.

• Deliver quality patient care in compliance with physician orders under the direction of a Registered Nurse.
• Perform the continuum of hands-on client care through documentation and timely communication with the client s physician and other caregivers.
• Recognize changes in patient needs and responses requiring intervention and implement care to prevent or reduce risk.
• Educate clients and their family members based on the client s specific needs.
• Provide home care using skills such as phone triage, patient education, observation/assessment, wound care, infusions, catheter care, and PICC line dressing changes.

• Active LPN license in the state of application.
• Current CPR certification (with hands-on component).
• TB skin test current within the last 12 months.
• Reliable transportation.
• Ability to read and write English.

• Medicare Skilled Nursing experience.
• Basic understanding of Oasis.
• 1 year LPN experience in a home health or health care setting.
• Home Care Home Base experience is a plus.

• Must be able to function in diverse environments; may involve exposure to allergens and other conditions.
• Potential exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and infectious diseases.
• Must be able to travel and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Prolonged walking, standing, bending, kneeling, reaching, twisting; able to climb stairs and reposition patients safely.
• Must have visual and hearing acuity, and a strong sense of smell and touch.

• Position may change without notice; this description is not a comprehensive listing of duties.

Aveanna Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.

• Entry level

• Part-time

• Health Care Provider
• Industries:
  Hospitals and Health Care

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