Licensed Nurse Assistant

Eminence Home Care is looking for a talented Licensed Nurse Assistant (LNA) to join our amazing team! The Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) supports the delivery of Personal Care Services by meeting with clients in their homes or other approved community settings, gathering standardized information, observing functional abilities and safety needs, and documenting findings for review by the supervising licensed nurse. This position helps identify a client’s ability to complete activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living, available natural supports, environmental considerations, and changes that may affect service needs. The LNA does not independently perform the nursing assessment, determine medical necessity, establish eligibility, develop or approve the plan of care, or exercise nursing judgment reserved to a licensed nurse. Reporting Relationship and Scope · Reports to and practices under the supervision of an RN, APRN, or LPN, consistent with New Hampshire law and agency policy. · Uses only agency-approved forms, scripts, tools, and assessment-support procedures for which competency has been verified. · Promptly reports findings, concerns, and changes in condition to the supervising nurse; does not interpret findings or make independent clinical conclusions. · For New Hampshire Medicaid Personal Care Attendant services, the provider’s licensed RN must conduct the personal care assessment and develop and sign the plan of care. The LNA may collect supporting information and observations but may not substitute for the RN. Essential Duties and Responsibilities · Schedule and complete assigned client visits within required timeframes and communicate delays or access issues promptly. · Verify client identity, explain the purpose and limits of the visit, obtain required acknowledgments, and protect client choice, privacy, dignity, and rights. · Gather client-reported information and directly observe functional performance related to bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, eating, mobility, transfers, positioning, medication self-management, meal preparation, housekeeping, laundry, shopping, and other approved tasks. · Observe and document the home environment for accessibility, equipment use, fall or fire hazards, sanitation concerns, and barriers to the safe delivery of personal care services. · Record the client’s current routines, preferences, strengths, limitations, ability to direct or participate in care, and the availability and role of family, friends, or other natural supports. · Obtain and accurately record information requested by the supervising nurse regarding diagnoses, medications, equipment, nutrition, communication needs, and existing services without conducting medication reconciliation or making clinical determinations. · Use objective, factual, complete, and timely documentation; distinguish direct observation from client or caregiver statements. · Immediately report urgent concerns,…