Home Care Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN) Job at Aveanna Healthcare, Dudley, MA

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  • Aveanna Healthcare
  • Dudley, MA

Job Description

Home Care Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN) at Aveanna Healthcare summary:

Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) provide skilled nursing care to patients in their homes, following physician orders and care plans. They perform hands-on medical tasks such as wound care, catheter management, and patient assessment, while educating patients and families to improve health outcomes. LPNs work with interdisciplinary teams to deliver personalized home health services mainly for individuals under Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance programs.

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Aveanna Healthcare

Our Certified Business Line offers both short-term and long-term care services, catering to individuals under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as those with Private Insurance and Private Pay. We serve a diverse patient population with varying needs, including individuals with chronic conditions, behavioral health challenges, monitoring requirements, skilled nursing, and therapeutic needs. Our patients span all age groups, from children to geriatric individuals.

Our services involve a range of medical and non-medical assistance provided through visits to the individual’s own home. These services include Skilled Nursing, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and Home Health Aide Services. Aveanna’s services are tailored to individual’s needs and can significantly improve the quality of life for those who need short-term assistance but wish to remain in their own homes.

Position Overview

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 while adhering to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries at all times.

Award-Winning Culture

  • Indeed’s Work Wellbeing Top 100 Company in 2024
  • Best Company for Work-Life Balance, Happiest Employees and Culture and Best CEO in 2024, as ranked by Comparably

Essential Job Functions

  • Deliver quality patient care in compliance with physician orders under direction of their Registered Nurse teammate.
    • Perform the continuum of hands-on client care through documentation and timely communication with the client's physician and other caregivers
  • Recognizes changes in patient needs and responses requiring intervention and implements care to prevent risk or reduce risk.
    • Educate clients and their family members based on client’s specific needs.
  • Provide care in patients home using a variety of skills such as phone triage, patient education, observation/assessment, wound care, infusions, catheter care, PICC line dressing changes etc
    Other Skills/Abilities
    • Attention to detail
    • Time Management
    • Effective problem-solving and conflict resolution
    • Good organization and communication skills

    Physical Requirements
    • Must be able to speak, write, read and understand English
    • Must be able to travel
    • Must be able to lift 50 pounds
    • Prolonged walking, standing, bending, kneeling, reaching, twisting
    • Must be able to sit and climb stairs
    • Must have visual and hearing acuity
    • Must have strong sense of smell and touch
    • Must be able to sufficiently reposition patients and move equipment without assistance
    • Must be able to appropriately respond physically and mentally to emergency situations in the home or during transport

    Environment
    • Must be able to function in a wide variety of environments which may involve exposure to allergens and other various conditions
    • Possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids and infectious diseases

    Other Duties
    • Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

  • An active LPN License in the state of application
  • Current CPR certification (with hands-on component)
  • TB skin test (current within last 12 months)
  • Must have reliable transportation
  • Must be able to read and write English

Preferred:

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

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 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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Keywords:

home care nursing, licensed practical nurse, skilled nursing, patient assessment, wound care, catheter care, medicare nursing, patient education, home health aide services, behavioral health nursing

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work,

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