Licensed Practical Nurse

Promotes and restores patients health by completing the nursing process, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients in the surgery center setting. Supervision of assigned team members. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required. Employees may be cross trained in other clinical areas and may be expected to perform duties other than their normal ones as staffing and patient needs change.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Promotes the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Adhering to principles of Universal Precautions.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and Center related business and act as a patient advocate.
• Answers patients calls and determines how to assist them.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts. Records food and fluid intake and output.
• Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations, calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments and following Center and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; including those outlined by the State Nurse Practice Act and other governing agency regulations.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Transfers care as appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited vocational nursing program.
• Two (2) years’ experience in related field, preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, preferred.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification, preferred.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification, depending on patient population, preferred.