Per Diem Licensed Practical Nurse II-Outpatient - Transitional Care

EMPLOYER-PAID PENSION PLAN (NEVADA PERS)
COMPETITIVE SALARY & BENEFITS PACKAGE Position Summary

Under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, applies the nursing process to deliver basic, safe, therapeutic care and administering medications for individuals or groups of patients. May provide patient care in a specialty area but not limited to: medical/surgical, labor and delivery, PEDS, and the emergency room. May work with high risk patients.

Equivalent to graduation from high school and one (1) year of clinical experience as a LPN.

Current License by the Nevada State Board of Nursing to Practice as a Practical Nurse, and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification accepted by the American Heart Association (AHA).

Two (2) years of recent LPN clinic or urgent care experience.

• Basic life support
• nursing process (implementation and coordination of patient care)
• patient standards of care
• disease process
• medical terminology
• human anatomy
• basics of pharmacology and medication administration
• Proper techniques for dressing wounds, removing sutures and staples, etc
• Aseptic techniques
• Nurse practice act
• department and hospital safety practices and procedures
• patient rights
• infection control policies and practices
• handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials
• department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures
• age specific patient care practices

• Proper medication administration (except epidural and intravenous route)
• delivery of patient care
• performing basic life support
• maintaining sterile technique
• using equipment associated with specialty area and the nursing process
• communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds under stressful conditions
• establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties
• efficient, effective and safe use of equipment

Mobility to work in a typical clinical setting and use standard equipment, including stamina to remain standing and/or walk for extended periods of time, and strength to examine and treat varied patients, vision to read printed materials and a VDT screen, and hearing and speech to communicate effectively in person and over the telephone. Strength and agility to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this classification.