License Practical Night Nurse

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Licensed Practical Nurse Full Time Mount Dora, FL, Mount Dora, FL, US

Job Summary

• Cares for spinal cord and TBI, patients or persons with disabilities admissions from hospitals and similar institutions.

General Accountabilities

• Administers prescribed medications or starts intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
• Observes patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions.
• Answers patients' calls and determines how to assist them.
• Measures and records patients' vital signs.
• Provides basic patient care or treatments.
• Works as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
• Supervises nurses' aides or assistants.
• Assembles and uses equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Records food and fluid intake and output.
• Collects samples, such as blood and urine from patients, and performs routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Prepares patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
• Helps patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
• Sterilizes equipment and supplies.
• * The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

Job Qualifications

• Education:
  
  Associate's degree in nursing
• Experience:
  
  LPN license with 1-2 years of related experience

Skills

• Service orientation
• Coordination
• Monitoring
• IV Certified

Valid, unencumbered license as a Practical Nurse in the State of Florida #ZR