Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - 40 hours/week, day shift

Licensed Practical Nurse

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Under the general supervision of the Nurse Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager/Tertiary Team Leader, Clinical Nurse Leader, the Licensed Practical Nurse practices within the Lahey Hospital Professional Practice Model, MA Nurse Practice Act, ANA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and demonstrates Lahey Hospital's core values that reflect its Mission. The nurse-patient/family relationship, continuity of care and accountability are central to the delivery of individualized high-quality patient care.

A Licensed Practical Nurse demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide expected standards of care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, spiritual, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of patients.

The Licensed Practical Nurse, in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act of Massachusetts Rules & Regulations- 244 CMR 3.0, shall bear full and ultimate responsibility for the quality of nursing care he/she provides to individuals and groups. Included in such responsibility are health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning and restoration of optimal functioning and comfort or for the dignified death of those they serve.

The Licensed Practical Nurse facilitates the coordination of care across the continuum and demonstrates safe practice within the domains of:

• Clinical judgment and decision making
• Professional relationships
• Clinical leadership
• Clinical scholarship

The Licensed Practical Nurse provides care directly to patients and collaborates with the healthcare team members. They maintain a current level of knowledge and skill with technical procedures as defined by nursing specialty organization, complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies and is currently licensed in the state of Massachusetts as a licensed practical nurse.

Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Clinical judgment and decision making: Ways in which nurses come to understand the problems, issues, or concerns of patients/families, to attend to relevant/critical information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways.
• Professional relationship: The professional relationship is based upon Lahey Hospital's guiding principles and positive effective communication.
• Clinical leadership: The Licensed Practical Nurse supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner's Novice to Expert skills acquisition model.
• Clinical scholarship: The Licensed Practical Nurse achieves clinical scholarship through experiences with patients, through collaboration with colleagues and leadership and through formal education.

Minimum qualifications:

• Education: Graduate of a state approved and/or accredited School of Nursing
• Licensure, Certification, Registration: Current license to practice professional nursing from the Massachusetts Board of Registration
• BLS
• Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: Clinical Skills/Technical Knowledge. Demonstrates the necessary clinical skills and technical knowledge to provide care for patients according to Nursing Policy and Procedures. See Skill Record or Competency Checklist. Demonstrates the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to provide care for patients according to the unit-specific competencies. See Skill Record or Competency Checklist. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience: Preferably six months of clinical experience in inpatient, outpatient, or long-term facilities. Endocrine experience preferred or strong primary care work history.

Pay Range: $31.00 - $43.41

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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