Job Description
Equiliem is seeking a LPN / LVN for a local contract job in Wayland, New York.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: LPN / LVN
- Discipline: LPN / LVN
- Start Date: 08/18/2025
- Duration: 52 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, evenings
- Employment Type: Local Contract
Shift:
1pm -11pm LPN with M/T/W pass days
Summary of Need:
As a Licensed Practical Nurse, you will care for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome and Cerebral palsy. You would be involved in the treatment of people with developmental disabilities under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN).
Job duties include, but are not limited to:
- Administer medications and injections.
- Perform tube feedings.
- Hang IVs
- Collect blood samples, if certified for venipuncture.
- Provide colostomy care.
- Observe patients and report changes in their condition.
- Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure.
- Obtain specimens for analysis and perform other medical procedures as ordered by a physician.
- Prepare and apply simple dressings.
- Bathe and feed; and care for people and their homes by performing such tasks as making beds, changing linen, lifting and moving people and caring for their personal effects.
Qualifications:
- Licensed Practical Nurse in New York State.
- At least 1-year current experience working in long-term care or hospital setting. The ideal candidate will have experience working with the developmentally disabled patients.
- Highly motivated, independent thinker and self-starter.
- Enthusiastic team player.
- Excellent organizational, planning, and interpersonal skills.
- Able to manage multiple projects. Strong follow-up and communication skills.
- Excellent computer skills. (Word processing, office scheduling, familiar with Windows).