Substance Abuse - LVN

We are a fast pace Residential Treatment Facility and we are looking for POSITIVE and DEDICATED LVN's to join our growing company!

Primary Purpose and Function

The LVN, RN, LPT, or CNA is responsible for the nursing assessment, medication monitoring, intake screenings, monitoring health status to determine if health status warrants transfer for urgent or emergent care, testing associated with detoxification from alcohol and drugs, and provision of alcohol or drug abuse treatment services (including detoxification).

Harmony Place employees form a team with the highest standards who are individually and collectively committed to provide the highest level of care and service for our clients, their families and referents. As such, we require all of our employees to embody our core values are detailed below:

• Dependability: It's important to behave in ways that demonstrate you are able, believable, connected, and dependable. When it comes to trustworthiness, being just OK is not OK.
• Integrity: We are honest and accountable for our performance. We treat our clients and colleagues with respect and dignity.
• Quality: We focus on consistent and competent performance of our duties. Careful attention to communication and follow-through produces excellent delivery of care.
• Compassion: Harmony Place prides itself on being a safe, comfortable, and contained environment that supports healing, recovery, and hope. Every client is treated with empathy, caring, and kindness.
• Collaboration: We employ a “whole person” perspective to treatment. To that end, our program not only focuses on the client, but the family system as well. We pool resources form clients, families, peers, partners and professionals to deliver exceptional care. Service: We aid by creating a safe, calm shelter for our clients to risk exploring emotional issues that emerge in treatment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current California LVN, RN, LPT, or CNA license or certification in good standing with no restrictions.
• Current professional liability insurance.
• Minimum of one (1) year experience in residential healthcare facility preferred.
• DHCS Standard 13010(b)(6) requires personnel file to contain health screening report and tuberculosis test results.
• Current CPR and First Aid training.
• Two (2) years of current, continuous sobriety, if in recovery.
• Computer skills adequate to perform word processing and electronic health record duties.

Core Competency (minimum skills, knowledge, and experience needed to preform essential functions and responsibilities)

• Provide client-centered care.
• Work in interdisciplinary team.
• Employ evidence-based practices.
• Apply quality improvement in delivery of services.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• • Daily documentation to maintain compliance with JCAHO, IMS, and DHCS regulations;
  • Accept and transcribe orders from physicians;
  • Order medications from the pharmacy as necessary;
  • Accountable for counting, tracking and documenting medications taken by residents;
  • Audit resident charts for quality assurance;
  • Monitor/report resident vital signs, COWS, and CIWAS;
  • Provide and record BAC and UDS tests on residents as required;
  • Nursing protocols for admission and discharge of residents;
  • Detailed reports to interdisciplinary team regarding clients meds and behavior
  • Answer phone calls as needed;
  • Routine checks on all safety and nursing equipment and document;
  • Report to direct supervisor;
  • Incident reporting, as needed;Nurse must be willing to, as needed, conduct property searches of residents and perform routine wellness checks.