LPN- Primary Care BWH Foxboro

Overview

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) – Primary Care – Foxboro, MA – onsite.

Sign‑on Bonus: $5,000 for eligible new employees. Eligible only LPNs. Full‑time, 40 hrs/week, Monday–Friday. Pay commensurate with experience.

Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Tuition Reimbursement, Generous Paid Time Off, Free Parking, 403(b), Cash Balance Retirement, and more.

• Under supervision of a Nurse Manager or licensed clinical leader and in collaboration with team members, provide direct and indirect patient care according to scope of practice.
• Interview patients about current problems, medications, allergies, and review medical records.
• Measure and record vital signs (height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration).
• Provide basic patient care: dressing wounds, treating bedsores, enemas/douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, catheterizations, routine immunizations, nebulizer treatments, visual acuity test.
• Participate in treatment regimens, including administering medications under physician/registered nurse supervision.
• Answer phones, take messages, triage within licensed practical nursing scope.
• Collect samples (blood, urine, sputum) and perform routine laboratory tests.
• Prepare patients for examinations, tests or treatments; explain procedures.
• Assist patients with bathing, dressing, hygiene, moving in bed, standing, walking.

• Graduate of an accredited Licensed Practical Nursing program.
• Current LPN licensure in Massachusetts required.
• Basic Life Support preferred.
• Nursing experience preferred.

• Basic knowledge of patient education: interviewing, listening, teaching, engagement techniques.
• Accurate vital sign performance and health information gathering.
• Administer medication via injections, IV, oral routes.
• Perform specific procedures and tests appropriate to the setting.
• Communicate professionally, courteously, clearly, concisely.

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with a disability.