LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE (LPN) I

Medical Care Position

Under direction, the purpose of the position is to provide medical care and services to students according to physician prescribed medical care and treatment orders. Employees in this classification are responsible for addressing medical emergencies, assessing circumstances and conditions, and resolving such according to established procedures and protocols. Performs related work as directed.

Examples of essential functions include:

• Responding to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Providing medical care and services to students according to physician prescribed medical care and treatment orders.
• Preparing medications for administration and dispensing such to students in accordance with physician orders and established time schedules.
• Monitoring and providing assistance to students diagnosed with diabetes and providing appropriate interventions to blood glucose levels.
• Conducting vision/hearing screenings as well as scoliosis screening.
• Performing gastrostomy tube feedings and catheterizations according to physician orders; taking vital signs and assessing conditions, when necessary, i.e., alertness, color, strength, pupils.
• Charting and maintaining accurate records of activities performed, i.e., medications dispensed, incident reports, nursing notes, daily treatments, and interventions.
• Responding to emergency incidents; assessing circumstances and conditions; resolving such according to established procedures and protocols.
• Monitoring materials and medications to ensure appropriate supply levels; re-ordering such as necessary.
• Ensuring the safe and sanitary condition of the school clinic, i.e., stocking supplies, cleaning surfaces, changing exam paper.
• Cleaning medical supplies according to proper sanitation procedures, i.e., syringes, breathing apparatus, medicine dispensers.
• Maintaining student medical records; pulling such for review prior to evaluation appointments; researching medical diagnoses as appropriate.
• Digitally recording the number of students seen and purpose for clinic visitation; tracking number of students as well as statistical data relating to reasons for clinic visitation.
• Conferring with evaluation team regarding student medical information, requesting medical histories as appropriate.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS. With the support of the district, attending training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
• Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.

Marginal functions include performing related duties as directed.

Minimum training and experience include vocational/technical certification as a Licensed Practical Nurse, with continued employment contingent on satisfaction of (24) required continuing education credits every two years. Must have a valid Florida state license as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).

Performance aptitudes include:

• Data utilization: Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data and/or information using established criteria.
• Human interaction: Requires the ability to assist persons by action or interaction in carrying out specialized therapeutic or physical care plans and procedures.
• Equipment, machinery, tools, and materials utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of special needs and therapeutic equipment and devices.
• Verbal aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data, and information.
• Mathematical aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate decimals and percentages.
• Functional reasoning: Requires ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
• Situational reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.
• ADA compliance: Physical ability: Tasks involve the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and that may involve the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds).
• Sensory requirements: Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination. Some tasks require oral communications ability. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors.
• Environmental factors: Tasks are regularly performed with potential for exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.