Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Float in Homer, LA

Job Description LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE – MEDICAL/SURGICAL UNIT STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: To provide support for the mission and vision of the hospital through your actions, attitudes, and personal conduct as a team member of your to the health and wellbeing of the patients we service; to provide the duties outlined in this job description to the best of your abilities; and to strive for excellent service to your customers. JOB SUMMARY: Under supervision of professional nurse, renders nursing care to patients within an assigned unit. Observes and reports symptoms and conditions of patients. Assists in administering medications as prescribed by physician and notes reactions. Sets up treatment trays and assists physician with treatments. Maintains records reflecting patient’s conditions, medication, and treatments. Performs other duties as assigned. GENERAL DUTIES: 1. Support your manager and administration in the implementation of the hospital’s mission, vision, and overall goals. 2. Actively participate as a member of your identifying areas for improvement and implementing operational changes. 3. Assist your in the orientation process, your performance evaluations and focused counseling opportunities. 4. Promote high standards of performance by exhibiting compassion and professionalism at all times and by being responsible for your actions, attitude, and body language. 5. Communicate in a timely and effective manner using multiple communication mediums. This includes notes, e-mails, phone calls, one-on-one interaction, and participation in meetings. 6. Support performance improvement monitoring by collecting data, reporting incidents, identifying patient care problems and providing performance information to your manager. 7. Assist your manager in meeting needs, and developing new strategic goals for the 8. Follow all 9. Keep track of equipment and supplies to make sure your provide patient care and to assure 10. Manage your time to assure you clock in and out as scheduled, complete your assignments within the scheduled timeframe, and minimize changes in the QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. 2. Required to maintain a current Licensed Practical Nurse license in Louisiana. 3. Required to maintain a current certification in BLS and CPI. 4. Required to complete annual restraint education. 5. Required to have IV certification. 6. Required to participate in annual Infection Prevention education. 7. Required to follow Infection Prevention guidelines (i.e., proper use of isolation precautions, proper use of PPE, etc.) 8. Required to follow all Employee Health protocols (i.e., annual TB skin test, annual flu vaccine, and annual employee physical (if maintaining insurance benefits), etc.) 9. Required to complete annual training including HEAT, Ethics, and Omnicell. 10. Required to attend all mandatory inservices including 11. Required to be a role model and support person for CNA’s. 12. Required to participate in monthly PI. 13. Required to have basic computer knowledge. 14. Required to have the ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and verbally. 15. Required to pass pre-employment drug screen and random drug screens. PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS: 1. Adheres to dress code, appearance is neat and clean. 2. Completes annual education requirements. 3. Maintains regulatory requirements, including all federal, state, local regulations and accrediting organization standards. 4. Maintains and ensures patient confidentiality at all times. 5. Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time. 6. Wears identification while on duty, uses computerized punch time system correctly. 7. Completes inservices and returns in a timely fashion. 8. Attends annual review and 9. Attends at least 10 staff meetings annually, reads and returns all monthly staff meeting minutes. 10. Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner. 11. Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities. 12. Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices. 13. Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the hospital, as well as the focus statement of the STAFFING/SCHEDULE: Schedules are provided for each shifts to cover the 1. Working shifts that are not the employee’s normally scheduled shifts. 2. Working 3. Working times that are not the employee’s normally scheduled time (i.e., 7a – 7p, 7p – 7a). 4. Taking call for the unit – Call means that you do not report to work unless the need arises and you are notified that extra staff is called to work. Taking call means that you are available for a set time frame, normally a 12 hour shift, and that you can report to work within 30 minutes after notification, and will work the shift or until the need for extra staffing has been fulfilled. 5. If asked to work a different shift or to take call, the employee will be paid according to the facilities set shift differential and call pay rates. QUALIFICATIONS JOB KNOWLEDGE: 1. Techniques of administering treatments. 2. Preventing spread of disease by proper disposal of infected material and cleaning of equipment. 3. Method of handling sterile material under supervision. 4. First-Aid assistance to render in emergencies. 5. Operation of appliances. 6. Possibility of cuts or minor burns from instruments and equipment. 7. May be exposed to communicable diseases. 8. Possibility of strains due to moving patient or injury from irrational patients. SPECIFIC DUTIES: 1. Administering personal hygienic and therapeutic measures for patients as desired. 2. Assisting with diagnostic procedures. 3. Appling dressings, binders, ointments, powders, and other aids as prescribed by professional nurse or physician. 4. Following other instructions issued by a registered nurse. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 1 Good physical and mental health. 2. Must be able to withstand strenuous physical activity. 3. Walking and/or standing approximately 80% of the day. 4. Sitting approximately 20% of the day. 5. Must be able to lift up to 30lbs. (no less than 20 lbs.) less than 10% of the day. 6. Must be able to bend, stoop, kneel, and reach over the head less than 10% of the day. 7. Manual dexterity to handle instruments and equipment. 8. Visual and aural activity to detect changes in patient’s condition. DISCLAIMER: This is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks to be performed when circumstances change. RESPONSIBILITY: The Licensed Practical Nurse is directly responsible to the Charge Nurse or Registered Nurse. DIRECT REPORTS: