Licensed Practical Nurse, LPN - Stroke and Neuro

Title: Licensed Practical Nurse

Department: Stroke and Neurology

Schedule: 7pm-7am, Full Time Nights

Location: Forsyth Medical Center – Winston Salem, NC

Be Part of Something Truly Unique

Join our dynamic nursing team as an LPN on the Neurosciences Unit at Forsyth Medical Center—a 43-bed acute inpatient unit, including 4 dedicated EMU beds, within a Comprehensive Stroke Center.

This is a high-acuity, career-building environment where nurses care for complex stroke, neurological, and neurosurgical patients while sharpening advanced clinical skills every shift.

Why Nurses Choose This Unit

• LPN ratio: 1:6
• High acuity, skill building care
• Comprehensive stroke center
• Supportive Management

 What you'll do

• Care for acute stroke & neuro patients

• Perform advanced neuro assessments

• Manage crains, drains, and high-acuity cases

• Deliver full-scope RN care in a fast-paced unit

• Collaborate with neuro & neurosurgical teams

 Skills You’ll Build

• Advanced neurological assessment and rapid clinical decision-making

• Stroke recognition, intervention, and post-acute management
• Management of high-acuity neuro patients
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with neurology, neurosurgery, and specialty teams
• Time management and prioritization across diverse neurological conditions
• Confidence working in a high-acuity, career-building neuroscience unit

• Education: High School Diploma or GED, required. Graduate of accredited Practical Nursing Program, required.
• Experience: One year of relevant experience, preferred.
• Licensure/Certification: 
  • Appropriate state LPN license, required.
  • NC state approved curricula for restrictive interventions (facility specific) within 3 months of hire for Emergency Departments and Behavioral Health units, required.
  • CPI certification within 3 months of hire for Behavioral Health departments, required.
• Additional Skills Required:
  • Computer skills, Phone call etiquette and Organizational Skills.
  • Ability to comprehend policies and procedures and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team.
  • Behavioral Health units' requirements only:
    • Ability to intervene in a therapeutic manner for behavior patterns demonstrated by patients with a mental illness, personality disorder, substance abuse or developmental disabilities.
    • Knowledge of psychiatric medications, side effects and treatment interventions, knowledge of psychiatric diagnosis, mental health concepts, and evidence based therapeutic interventions and treatments. CPI certification within three months.
    • Ability to establish and maintain control of violent patients, defend self and others against violent assaults, ability to react appropriately in psychiatric crises, ability use violent and non-violent restraints per policy and procedure.
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