Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN General) - Region 3
Location: Gallipolis OH 45631
Duration: 3+ Months
Shift Timing: Night
3rd Shift (10:45 PM - 6:45 AM)
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care under the direction of a Registered Nurse, licensed Physician, Dentist, Podiatrist, or Optometrist. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Administering skilled nursing procedures (e.g., obtaining vital signs, applying oxygen, sterile dressing, inserting catheters, administering enemas, performing wound treatments, and administering medications).
- 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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22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
$30.00 - $35.00 / hr
Feb 03, 2025