The Licensed Practical Nurse will care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities within the facility. He or she may work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.
Duties/Responsibilities:
• Administers medications or starts intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients’ charts.
• Observes patients, charting and reporting changes in conditions such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment and takes necessary actions.
• Answers patients’ calls and determines how to assist them.
• Measures and records patients’ vital signs such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
• Provides basic patient care or treatments such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Works as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plans and modifies care, and implements interventions.
• Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members.
• Assembles and uses equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Records food and fluid intake and output.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Adheres to the facility’s Standards of Excellence.
Required Skills/Abilities:
• General knowledge of nursing and health care terminology.
• Excellent patient care skills.
Education and Experience:
• Postsecondary certificate from vocational school or Associate’s degree in nursing required.
• Current state licensure required
Physical Requirements:
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• May require prolonged periods of standing, moving and bending.
• Must be able to lift up to 75 pounds at times.