LPN - Emergency Department (per diem) #3435

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: Based on Experience

Reedsburg Area Medical Center is hiring an LPN to work in the Emergency Department.

Schedule: Per Diem

Hours: 12 hour shifts both days and nights

Seeking a fast-paced, purpose-driven role where every shift makes a difference? As an LPN in the Emergency Department, youll provide compassionate, high-quality care to patients during some of their most critical moments. Working alongside a dynamic team of physicians, RNs, and healthcare professionals, youll assist with assessments, treatments, procedures, and patient flow in a high-energy environment where teamwork and quick thinking are essential. This position is ideal for an adaptable, patient-focused nurse who thrives under pressure and is passionate about delivering exceptional emergency care with empathy and professionalism.

Job Relationships:

Reports to Director of Critical Care; under direct supervision of the RN,MD, NP.

Primary Customer Served:

• Newborn (birth - 30 days)
• Infant (31 days 1 year)
• Pediatric (1 12 years)
• Adolescent (13 18 years)
• Adult (19 65 years)
• Geriatric (> 66 years)
• Family/Visitors
• Physicians
• Community Agencies
• Social Work Team

Education and Training Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Current BLS certification required; consider ACLS.
• State Licensure as a Practical Nurse.
• Basic arrhythmia course (may obtain within one year of hire).
• Medical terminology.

Experience:

• One (1) year experience in acute care hospital setting or in ambulance preferred.

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to speak effectively before patients, families and co-workers.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in writing, oral and diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Complies with HIPAA privacy laws in all forms of communication and EMR use.

Physical Requirements:

• Physical Demands:
  • Occasionally sits at desk.
  • Frequently stands and walks to perform tasks.
  • Occasionally lifts up to 50 pounds of materials such as patients and equipment, or while transferring and positioning patient and equipment.
  • Occasionally pushes and/or pulls with up to 50 pounds of force when moving carts and other equipment.
  • Occasionally carries up to 25 pounds.
  • Occasionally requires lifting overhead while doing procedures and working with monitors.
  • Frequently bend to floor, squat to handle linen, assist with patient cares, and retrieve supplies.
  • Continuous good balance for patient safety.
  • Frequently requires using fine motor skills for operation of needles, syringes, vials, clinical devices and supplies, computer, monitors, and telephone equipment.
• Sight:
  • Continuously requires visual acuity with correction to 20/40 to read written and computer information.
  • Frequent near sighted and visual acuity is needed for computer work, reading monitors and other equipment.
  • Continuously requires the visual acuity to be able to do special perception, peripheral vision, depth perception, perceive color differences and accommodation to provide safe patient care.
• Cognition/Communication:
  • Frequently requires effectively communicating with other staff, physicians, volunteers and customers using hearing skills, comprehensive speech, simple writing, and simple reading skills.
  • Frequently communicates utilizing various methods available: telephone, paging, email, print, or in person.
  • Frequently requires recognizing and using medical terminology.
  • Occasionally uses simple math skills for performing medication calculations.
• Environmental Conditions:
  • Continuously works indoors, in the patient environment with occasional unpleasant noises or smells.
  • Occasionally need to go outside to help transport patients into the hospital.
  • Frequently is exposed to glare from computer screens.
• Potential Hazards:
  • OSHA Blood Borne Classification Class I.
  • Frequent exposure to infectious blood and body fluids and disease requiring isolation inherent to caring for ill patient(s).
  • Occasional exposure to blood/body fluids and needles/syringes/sharps during invasive procedures and treatments.
  • Occasional exposure to chemical compounds of medications and treatment.
  • May handle hazardous drugs.
• Psychological, Situational, Functional Factors:
  • Occasionally performs work independently under stressful circumstances.
  • Occasionally requires managing of conflict and difficult situations related to department.
  • Frequently requires using flexibility in prioritizing, changing, and performing assigned tasks.
  • Continuously requires using appropriate interpersonal skills when working with others.
  • Continuously performs tasks within assigned timeframe, with consistency and accuracy.
  • Occasionally requires maintaining of concentration while performing prolonged job tasks.

Occasionally requires using influential skills when dealing with patients, families and peers