Licensed Practice Nurse

Pay Rate: $44 - $48 per hour

Shift: 7:00P - 7:30A

Responsibilities:

• Perform tasks and responsibilities within the scope of supportive and restorative care.
• Administer medication and specialized tasks under the direction of a Registered Professional Nurse or licensed physician or dentist.
• Deliver nursing care in structured and routine situations free of scientific complexity.
• Assist with activities of daily living.
• Administer treatments and routine tasks such as suctioning and urinary catheterizations.
• Prepare patients for surgery, diagnostic tests, treatments, and examinations.
• Administer medications within the scope of practice and accurately collect, label, and process specimens.
• Identify and set up intravenous equipment and deliver solutions for infusion through peripheral access devices.
• Administer blood or blood products with special training.
• Report pertinent observations, treatments, medications, incidents, and accidents associated with patients to the Registered Professional Nurse and record the same on appropriate documents with the format of charting utilized in the unit.
• Recognize the unit-based model for delivery of nursing care and assume responsibility for assignments delegated by the Registered Professional Nurse.
• Contribute to the nursing care plan in collaboration with other members of the nursing staff.
• Reinforce the patient/family teaching process identified by the RN.
• Provide emotional support to patients and their families/significant others.
• Assist with the rehabilitation of patients according to the nursing care plan.
• Provide for the physical comfort and safety of the patient.
• Contribute to patient care conferences.
• Assist in Emergency Resuscitative Procedures by initiating a Team 7000 call, performing resuscitative procedures such as BCLS, and carrying out other activities as directed by the team.
• Document nursing care delivered on appropriate forms within the medical record.

Requirements:

• Completion of an educational program for licensure as an LPN.
• Successful completion of the New York State Department of Health LPN IV Therapy Initial Program for demonstrating competence in intravenous therapy/blood administration procedures as part of Centralized Orientation.
• Successful completion of the annual unit-based review and update program in procedures associated with intravenous therapy.
• Licensing and Certification Requirements:
  • LPN - Issuing Agency: New York State Department of Health
  • Basic Life Saver (BLS) - Issuing Agency: AHA

Certifications & Licenses:

• BLS - AHA