Are you an LPN looking for a flexible schedule?

Maybe it's time to explore a position with the Minnesota Float Team!

Come join our awesome team as a Licensed Practical Nurse. You can work a minimum of 4 shifts per month or full-time hours. It's up to you!

The Minnesota Float Team is part of Volunteers of America National Services (VOANS) which serves as the Housing and Healthcare affiliate of the Volunteers of America parent organization.

LPN Job Highlights:

• Earn up to $35.00/hour
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Flexible Schedule, you set your hours
• PRN/On-Call/Casual position
• Love to travel? You have the opportunity to serve all our Minnesota senior care centers.
• Consistent policies and procedures at each facility
• Quality training, continuing career education and leadership programs
• Growth and advancement opportunities
• Employee Discount Programs

About the Job:

The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) utilizes the nursing process to organize and provide direct care to residents. The LPN will organize, facilitate, and carry out shift routines in the assigned nursing unit.

Required Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Graduate of an accredited professional nursing program.
• Have a current Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) license in the state of Minnesota
• Have a current BLS/CPR Certification.
• Effective communicator with staff, families and outside agencies.
• Ability to prioritize duties.
• Customer service oriented with knowledge of successful customer service techniques.
• Ability to understand residents’ charts, doctor’s orders, residents’ plan of care, and medication orders.
• Have the ability to effectively gather clinical data in regards to resident status and condition.
• Understand current Antibiotic Stewardship, Infection Prevention & Infection Control and OSHA guidelines.
• Attend required in-services and complete assigned on-line modules.
• Undergo background screenings for employment purposes. This includes a criminal and drug screening.
• Must be willing to work in facilities following precautions and testing requirements for COVID-19.

Preferred Skills:

• Have experience working in an assisted living or long-term care environment

Essentials:

• Follows all shift routines, policy and procedures regarding monitoring of vital signs, weights, administration of medications and treatments.
• May administer professional services, such as catheterization, tube feedings, suctioning, applying/changing bandages, packs, colostomies and drainage bags. Provide range of motion exercises, care of the dying/expired resident etc.
• Maintains all required documentation in an accurate and timely manner according to policies and procedures of the facility, including documentation of medications, treatments, restraints, psychotropic medications and skin condition.
• Positively communicates with NAR/S, HHA’s, TMA’s, interdisciplinary team, customers, residents and families.
• Contribute toward completing and updating resident’s care plans, as directed by RN.
• Perform routine charting duties as required and in accordance with established charting and documentation policies and procedures.
• Accurately transcribes physician’s orders as per facility protocol and forwards necessary information to other departments.

About the Minnesota Float Team:

The Volunteers of America National Services Minnesota Float Team is a team of experienced professionals that are devoted to providing individualized, empathetic assistance to seniors. Our senior care centers offer compassionate, personalized long-term care, memory support, short-term rehabilitation, home health and affordable housing. We are passionate about creating an environment that makes everyone feel at home. We support our employees in bringing their determination and positive energy to the workplace, constantly inspiring our community and providing joy to those who need it the most.

Love to travel? Assignments are available in Maplewood, Anoka, Sleepy Eye, Rochester, and other senior care centers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

In our 2022 Great Place to Work survey results found that 87% of employees said their work has a special meaning: this is not "just a job"

Take pride in helping others, and join us today!

At VOANS, we celebrate sharing, encouraging and embracing diversity. Equal employment opportunities are available to all without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that blending individual strengths and unique personal differences nurtures and supports our organizations’ shared commitment to our mission and creates an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to do their personal best.

Experience

• 1 year(s): Home Health, Long and Short Term Rehab, Memory Support

Education

• Associates or better

Licenses & Certifications

• Licensed Practical Nurse
• CPR/First Aid

Behaviors

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations

• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
• Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
• Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization