Rapides Regional Medical Center
LPN Float Pool
Full Time, Day Shift, Weekends Rotate
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Job Summary and Qualifications
The Staff LPN performs therapeutic and preventative nursing procedures, incorporating fundamental biological and psychological principles in giving individualized care. Participates in developing preventative or long-term health plans for patients and/or families. Provides patient’s family education that will enhance their knowledge of their disease process in order to maintain their health status and prevent advancement and/or deterioration of their disease process. Patient care will include all adolescents, adults, and geriatrics.
What you will do in this role:
- Performs therapeutic and preventative nursing procedures, incorporating fundamental biological and psychological principles in giving individualized care. Participates in developing preventative or long-term health plans for patients and/or families. Provides patient’s family education that will enhance their knowledge of their disease process in order to maintain their health status and prevent advancement and/or deterioration of their disease process. Patient care will include all adolescents, adults and geriatrics.
- Contribute to the development of the patient’s plan of care through identification and communication of patient’s need to the RN, evident by reporting and documentation.
- Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety and related criteria appropriate to the following age groups; adolescent, adult, geriatric.
- Provide patient/family health education that promotes health behaviors, supports recovery and enables the patients and/or family to be involved in decisions and their plan of care.
- Physician orders are carried out accurately and efficiently and clarified when necessary within the scope of practice governing LPNs.
- Assist physicians with patient rounds enhancing communication between the physician and the patient.
- The patient’s responses to intervention and progress toward desired outcomes are assessed, reassessed and communicated to health care team. (i.e., changes in patient condition or behavior, education needs assessed)
- Able to identify potential or actual victims of abuse and understands proper reporting mechanism.
- Able to recognize adverse drug reactions and demonstrates understanding of proper reporting mechanism once reaction is identified.
- Appropriately assesses the patient’s pain and involves the patient in effective management of that pain using age appropriate interventions.
- Patient care equipment is utilized safely and efficiently in accordance with hospital policies and procedures.
- Standard Precautions are promoted and followed in the utilization of principles of infection control in patient care.
- The Unit Manager, Charge Nurse, or Nursing Supervisor is informed of changes in the patients’ conditions and guidance is solicited when appropriate.
- Achieves stated goals related to job performance.
- Educational records reveal attendance at all required educational programs/in-services.