Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse LPN Full Time

Company: Aveanna Healthcare
Location: Tuscaloosa
Posted on: September 28, 2024

Job Description:

**Licensed Practical Nurse Job Description**

Provide skilled nursing care to patients in their homes, working under the direction of a Registered Nurse and adhering to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries.

The Licensed Practical Nurse is an essential part of the team responsible for providing and documenting skilled nursing care in accordance with the developed care plan and physicians' orders for each individual patient.

**Key Responsibilities:**

--- Deliver quality patient care in compliance with physician orders
--- 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 risk or reduce risk
--- Educate clients and their family members based on client's specific needs
--- Provide care in patients' homes using a variety of skills such as phone triage, patient education, observation/assessment, wound care, infusions, catheter care, PICC line dressing changes, etc.

**Why This Role Matters:**

--- Be a trusted team member who is essential in providing top-quality care to patients
--- Work with a clinical team that is a family of clinicians who work together to meet the needs of each patient
--- Enjoy the flexibility of getting to build rapport with patients to produce the best clinical outcomes
--- Be part of a team that appreciates and rewards its staff

**Aveanna Healthcare Offers:**

--- 401(k) with match
--- Health, Dental and Vision Benefits for employees at 30+ hours
--- Tuition Discounts and Reimbursement
--- PTO, Sick Time, and Paid Holidays

**Requirements:**

--- An active LPN License in the state of application
--- Valid CPR

**Preferred Qualifications:**

--- Medicare Skilled Nursing experience
--- Basic understanding of Oasis
--- 1-year LPN experience in a home health or healthcare setting
--- Home Care Home Base experience a plus

**Note:** As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.

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