Licensed Practical Nurse - SCCC

Licensed Practical Nurse 4

Stafford Creek Corrections Center, Aberdeen, WA.

Schedule: 5:30am-2:00pm ) Tuesday-Saturday (Sun/Mon off)

Hourly salary range: $35.24-$47.43

Monthly salary range: $6,132.00-$8,254.00

• As delegated by the Registered Nurse, assigned as the lead clinical nurse in the treatment room.
• Participates in treatments and dressing changes, monitors vital signs, and assists with minor surgical procedures within the scope of nursing practice and proper training.
• Evaluate and carry out licensed practitioners’ written, verbal and telephone orders.
• Provide emergency medical care, including CPR.

• Monitor and collect specific data, as directed, about the health status, clinical condition, or situation of individuals, families, groups, and communities by interview, observation, inspection, and examination. Report the results of the data collection to the Registered Nurse.
• Assist the Registered Nurse in developing nursing diagnoses and outcomes to be achieved as a result of nursing intervention.
• Contribute to the development of the plan of nursing care including identification of approaches, time frames, and pathways for the delivery of health care. Assist the Registered Nurse in prioritizing and sequencing care.
• Carry out the plan of care by performing common therapeutic nursing interventions, informing others about the urgency, time and methods to deliver health care on and off site. Determine when needs for care or services are beyond the LPN scope of practice, require clarification, or require another type or level of intervention. Take action as necessary to obtain direction from the Registered Nurse and accomplish prescribed interventions in a timely and clinically responsive manner.
• Assist the Registered Nurse in analysis and evaluation of the structure, process and time frames for service delivery, the expected effects of treatment or intervention, and the outcomes to be achieved. Assist the Registered Nurse to revise the plan of care as necessary.
• In accordance with the intent and provisions of established policies, practices, and procedures, employ appropriate safety techniques to push, pull, lift and carry loads.

• Supervise and assign tasks to subordinate staff on the nursing team.
• Delegate and assign responsibility for patient care to other Licensed Practical Nurses and administrative nursing personnel after considering the needs, condition, stability of the patient, potential for harm, complexity of tasks and predictability of outcomes.
• Teach, instruct, monitor, supervise and evaluate the implementation of tasks and the results of patient care assigned to other personnel.
• Supervise the staff whom functions have been delegated, and report the outcomes of delegated nursing tasks to the Registered Nurse or other supervising health care provider.

• As delegated by the Registered Nurse, responsible for overseeing the medication administration area and patient care in that area.
• Participate in medication lines and individual medication administration.
• Process medication orders as written by providers and ordered medications.
• Provide patient education regarding medications and prepare release medications in anticipation of incarcerated individual transfer or release.

• Effectively communicate verbally, in writing and via computer or other electronic media with incarcerated individuals, their families, other health care personnel, custody, and other institutional personnel.
• Legibly document subjective and objective clinical findings and the actions taken to deliver nursing and other aspects of healthcare.
• Protect the confidentiality of health records.
• Maintain accurate, legible, and complete records of patient care.
• Communicate and assist in the coordination of pertinent information to health care providers for patients scheduled for community-based care.
• Coordinate health care received by patients by completing encounter forms.
• Complete unusual incident reports as directed. Collect data,…