Licensed Practice Nurse (LPN)

Job Title

Pay Rate: $42 per hour - $48 per hour

Shift Timings: 4:00PM - 12:00AM EOW required, 5 days a week

Responsibilities

• Perform tasks and responsibilities within the scope of supportive and restorative care.
• Administer medication and carry out specialized tasks under the direction of a Registered Professional Nurse or licensed physician/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 scope of practice and accurately collect, label, and process specimens.
• 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 same on appropriate documents.
• Recognize the unit-based model for delivery of nursing care and assume responsibility for assignments delegated by the Registered Professional Nurse.
• 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.

Requirements

• Completion of an educational program for licensure as an LPN.
• Successful completion of the required New York State Department of Health LPN IV Therapy Initial Program for competence in the performance of intravenous therapy/blood administration procedures as part of Centralized Orientation.
• Successful completion of annual unit-based review and update program in procedures associated with intravenous therapy.

Licensing and Certification Requirements

• LPN - Issuing Agency: New York State Department of Health
• Basic Life Saver (BLS)