LPN, LPN​/LVN, Healthcare Nursing

The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is an integral member of the health care team, providing compassionate, individualized patient care under the direction of a registered nurse or provider. The LPN performs designated elements of patient care and supports the clinical team in delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality care to patients.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care within the scope of practice
  for a Licensed Practical Nurse.
• Assists the registered nurse and providers with the delivery of individualized patient care.
• Performs assigned clinical and patient care activities in accordance with established policies, procedures, and standards.
• Assists with maintaining a safe, clean, and organized clinical environment.
• Documents patient care and clinical information accurately and timely.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, providers, and members of the health care team.
• Supports the overall operations of the vascular surgery clinic and contributes to a positive patient experience.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training, and Licensure/Certification s/Registrations Required

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Graduation from an approved practical nursing program.
• Current state licensure as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).
• Clinic experience preferred.
• Basic computer skills preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required, with other advanced training as appropriate.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement:
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre‑employment drug testing.

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