Licensed Practice Nurse (LPN)

Job Title

Pay Rate: $45 - $48/hr

Summary

Shift: 4p-12a, 5 days a week. Alternating weekends required.

Responsibilities

Perform tasks and responsibilities within the scope of supportive and restorative care.

Administer medications and specialized tasks under the direction of a Registered Professional Nurse or licensed physician or dentist.

Deliver nursing care in structured and routine situations free of scientific complexity.

Assist with activities of daily living.

Administer treatments and routine tasks such as suctioning and urinary catheterizations.

Prepare patients for surgery, diagnostic tests, treatments, and examinations.

Administer medications within the scope of practice and collect, label, and process specimens accurately.

Identify and set up intravenous equipment and deliver solutions for infusion through peripheral access devices.

Administer blood or blood products with special training.

Report pertinent observations, treatments, medications, incidents, and accidents associated with patients to the Registered Professional Nurse and record on appropriate documents.

Contribute to the nursing care plan in collaboration with other members of the nursing staff.

Reinforce the patient/family teaching process identified by the RN.

Provide emotional support to patients and their families/significant others.

Assist with the rehabilitation of patients according to the nursing care plan.

Ensure the physical comfort and safety of the patient.

Contribute to patient care conferences.

Assist in Emergency Resuscitative Procedures by initiating a Team 7000 call, performing resuscitative procedures such as BCLS, and carrying out other activities as directed by the team.

Document nursing care delivered on appropriate forms within the medical record.