Job Summary:
Works as part of a health care team to assess individual needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions. Under broad supervision, provides general direct nursing care to injured, ill, convalescent or disabled individuals. Care includes providing medical treatments, administering medication and giving injections.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities Include:
• Serves as job expert or organization resource in assigned areas.
• Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health-care team members as necessary.
• Provides basic client care and treatments, such as dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages, or performing catheterizations.
• Answers individuals’ calls and determines how to assist them
• Observes individuals, charting and reporting changes in individuals’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
• Measures and records individuals’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration
• Administers prescribed medications or starts intravenous fluids, and notes times and amounts on individuals’ charts

Minimum Qualifications
Vocational/Technical degree from an accredited college AND current Georgia license to practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse AND One year of nursing experience.

Preferred Qualifications Include:
• Licensed by the State of Georgia and/or Nurse Licensure Compact Multi-State License to practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse in Georgia
• Experience working in an adult mental health care facility a plus but not required.