LPN, Healthcare Nursing, RN Nurse

Medical/Surgical LPN

The Medical/Surgical LPN provides direct and indirect patient care to all age groups. The LPN implements and evaluates the patient care given. They will work with assigned nursing personnel, collaborate with other health care professionals, and coordinate ancillary staff.

Administers nursing care to designated patients under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse. Performs a variety of direct and indirect patient care duties. Provides direct or indirect patient care to all developmental ages of patients.

General requirements include performing all job responsibilities in alignment with the mission and vision of the organization, maintaining current knowledge in present areas of responsibility, attending staff meetings and completing mandatory in-services and requirements and competency evaluations on time, and wearing protective clothing and equipment as appropriate.

General skills include the ability to communicate in English, both verbally and in writing, additional languages preferred, strong written and verbal skills, and basic computer skills.

Working conditions include working in a well-lighted, air-conditioned area, with moderate noise levels, exposure to high noise levels and bright lights, exposure to limited hazardous substances or body fluids, or infectious organisms, and periods of high stress and fluctuating workloads.

Physical requirements and demands include having near normal hearing, near normal vision, good manual dexterity, good eye-hand foot coordination, ability to perform repetitive tasks/motion, standing, walking, bending/stooping, pushing/pulling, lifting/carrying up to 20lbs, lifting/carrying greater than 20 lbs. with assistance, sitting, climbing, twist at waist, lift/carry greater than 50 lbs. with assistance, and reaching above shoulder.

Job specific competencies include applying to all age groups, greeting and orienting patient to room, completing admission database within 12 hours and documenting in appropriate areas of the record, completing the initial visual head-to-toe assessment noting patient's condition/response within the first hour of shift, providing individualized instructions to patient and/or significant others regarding the plan of care on an ongoing basis with written documentation of patient's and/or significant other's ability to verbalize understanding of information taught, communicating patient care needs to caregivers throughout the shift and as necessary, reviewing new medical orders promptly, implementing STAT orders within 15 minutes and routine orders within 2 hours, reporting pertinent changes in patient's status to Charge Nurse and/or physician promptly, responding to Code 13 immediately and initiating CPR using BCLS protocol, providing individualized patient education for patient/family, responsible for following privacy concepts and other policies as stated in the HIPAA policy and procedures, assessing and reassessing pain within 30 minutes of administration of medication and documenting appropriately, ability to adequately assess and reassess pain, utilizing appropriate pain management techniques, educating the patient and family regarding pain management, patient documentation, knowing patient rights and responsibilities/information management, knowing policy for release of medical records, knowing security measures (password, Auto and Manual suspension of screens), able to access EMR and knows appropriate and inappropriate utilization of information, able to use work list properly (add and delete interventions, change frequencies, edit text, doc edit), documenting nurse's notes and patient team conference notes, completing shift portion of 12-hour assessments generated by the plan of care, documenting pertinent patient observations and interventions at time of occurrence, reporting findings to initiate further actions, i.e. critical lab values, reporting completely, briefly, and accurately re: patient status when transferring responsibility of care to another person/shift, i.e. hand-off communication, completing documentation on admission, transfer, and discharge assessments when event occurs, entering signature and credentials legibly on all charting, using only approved abbreviations, clarifying physician's orders in absence of adequate, explicit prescribed physician orders, utilization management program, adhering to policy for accurate and timely completion of all consents within shift, avoiding excessive unscheduled absence, participating in the hospital's risk management program by reporting all untoward events or abnormal findings to the Charge Nurse at time of occurrence, assessing individual patient rooms and unit environment for safe/sanitary conditions, correcting or reporting hazardous or unsafe conditions, identifying, sequestering, and reporting malfunctioning equipment to the appropriate person immediately, utilizing supplies and equipment with efficiency and charging appropriately, reporting needed…