LPN Continuing Care FT Days

Welcome to Continuing Care Hospital, a 25-bed long-term acute care hospital located inside CHI Saint Joseph Hospital. Continuing Care Hospital is recognized as a 12-time winner of the Kentucky Hospital Association Quality award and a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky. 

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. 

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

***Sign On Bonus up to $15,000 and Student Loan Payback up to $24,000 for eligible hires***

Responsible for providing nursing care and care coordination to assigned patients under the supervision of the RN. This may involve the administration of medications and treatments and education in accordance with physician’s orders and established nursing policies and procedures.   

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

1. Assumes responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting. 
2. Performs assessment and analyzes patient problems and conditions using critical decision making to determine need for standard, urgent or emergent interventions. 
3. Implements and/or modifies plan of care using assessment data, standards of care and evidence based practice inclusive of nursing care coordination, appropriate patient and family education, and discharge planning.  Facilitates interdisciplinary partnership in patient care. (as appropriate for an LPN) 
4. Integrates ethical provisions in nursing practice and delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights. 
5. Evaluates progress towards attainment of desired patient outcomes. 
6. Demonstrates effective on-going observations and reassessment of patient/family and their response to the interventions and changes in condition. 
7. Practices patient experience best practices of AIDET, Hourly Rounding, and Use of the White Board as minimal expectations.  May also practice bedside shift report and other best practices required by facility. 
8. Documents assessments and interventions in accordance with hospital policy and standards of care. 
9. Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.  Demonstrates knowledge of proper identification of and reporting of medical/healthcare errors.  Protects the patient in the event of a medical/health care error. 
10. Utilizes resources appropriately and follows facility guidelines for documentation and charging of medical supplies and equipment. 
11. Assigns or delegates tasks to designated support personnel based on needs and conditions of the patient, complexity of the task, predictability of the outcome and facility policy. 
12. Collaborates with new employees and peers to support orientation, training and development opportunities.  Supports the profession of nursing through support for nursing student clinical activities, as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing program
• Active (LPN) license cleared by the Kentucky Board of Nursing or with eNLC multi-state practice privilege
• Basic Life Support (BLS)

Effective 10/1/2024, all LPN hires are required to obtain their RN degree within 4 years of their start date.  Individuals must enroll and begin participating in an RN program within 6 months of their start date.  

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