Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN General) - Region 3
Location: Gallipolis OH 45631
Duration: 6+ Months
Shift Timing: Night 02:30 PM to 11:00 PM (40 Hours/Week)
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Administer nursing care within scope of practice as outlined in section 4723.01 to 4723.40 of the Ohio Revised Code.
- Works under direction of a Registered Nurse, licensed Physician, Dentist, Podiatrist, or Optometrist.
- Performs skilled practical nursing procedures and treatments (e.g., obtains vital statistics, applies oxygen, applies sterile dressing, inserts catheters; reinserts gastroscopy tubes, suctions, wound treatments, administers enemas, douches, obtains specimens, administers Enteral feedings, administers medications controlled and non-controlled to include oral, rectal, topical, inhalation, subcutaneous and intramuscular)
- Observes, documents and reports patient conditions and takes appropriate actions, Provides thorough and knowledgeable report of patient needs to RN/Physician. Provides patient teaching.
- Monitors patients during and as follow-up for procedures. Assists RN and Physician as needed.
- Responds to Emergencies, provides first aid, performs cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, uses and directs use of AED in emergency.
- Maintains medical accountability records and prepares related reports/forms (e.g., charts/patient records, medication administration records, unusual incident forms, seizure documentation forms, restraints logs, and other forms as required)
- Completes thorough and knowledgeable documentation, Verifies and implements Physician's orders.
- Completes and maintains controlled drug administration/tracking records- reports any inaccuracies in documentation immediately, completes and maintains Infection control documentation.
- Maintains work assignment records/ documents and forms as needed.
- Maintains supplies needed to provide an organized, appropriately stocked work area (i.e., orders, inventories, delivers/obtains). Communicates with pharmacy as needed to maintain medication stocks.
- Maintains assigned medical work areas (i.e., cleans equipment/carts cabinets/storage areas) provides daily cleaning.
- Provides clerical tasks (i.e., answers phones, files, copies, faxes).
- Provides general nursing care Assists and provides work direction, orientation and training as needed to lower-level direct staff in providing general unskilled nursing care (e.g., feeding, dressing, bathing, transferring and repositioning).
- Attends Medical appointments as needed, attends and participates in meetings as needed.
- Responds to patient alarms, assists in the maintaining of patient supervision levels as required.
- Confers with the Nursing Supervisor or the Director of Nursing in her absence on nursing needs or anything pertaining to the needs of nursing personnel.
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