Licensed Practical Nurse

Energy Innovation Corp; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 68,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Scripps Health in Salt Lake City, UT is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse who measures success by recovered patients. This freelance role offers a base salary of $68,000–$96,000 with growth opportunities and mentorship from experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities include compassionate patient care, HIPAA-compliant record-keeping, triage by acuity, IV setup, wound care, medication reconciliation, and collaboration to maintain safe bedside care in a fast-paced team.

Qualifications

• Calm under pressure when patient needs change scope
• Willingness to read docs before asking questions
• Hands-on experience with medication reconciliation workflows/tools
• Track record of improving healthcare processes
• Comfort owning the non-glamorous middle of freelance projects

Responsibilities

• Respond to patient needs with compassion and clinical judgment
• Maintain accurate, HIPAA-compliant patient records
• Triage incoming patients and prioritize cases by acuity
• Stabilize trauma arrivals and support the team in primary survey
• Set IV lines on difficult sticks to minimize patient discomfort
• Wound care from assessment to dressing change and track healing
• Trace medication discrepancies back to the source order and close gaps with pharmacy
• Maintain sterile fields during bedside procedures and anticipate next steps

Skills

Calm under pressure

Documentation literacy

Medication reconciliation

Process improvement

Freelance project ownership

Tools

Medication Reconciliation tooling

Job description

Scripps Health is searching Salt Lake City, UT for a Licensed Practical Nurse who measures success one recovered patient at a time. The proposition holds together — $68,000 - $96,000, 5 years, an UT base, and ownership the rest of the market rarely grants.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to patient needs with compassion and clinical judgment
• Maintain accurate, timely, and HIPAA-compliant patient records
• Triage incoming patients and prioritize cases by acuity
• Stabilize trauma arrivals at Salt Lake City, UT, working the primary survey while the team assembles
• Set IV lines on tough sticks others gave up on, sparing the patient a third attempt
• Wound care from assessment to dressing change, tracking healing across the full admission
• Trace medication discrepancies back to the source order, then close the gap with pharmacy
• Keep sterile fields intact during bedside procedures, anticipating what the provider reaches for next

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated calm when a Salt Lake City, UT client changes scope mid-stream
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• Hands-on experience with modern Medication Reconciliation workflows and tooling
• A history of leaving healthcare processes better than you found them
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a freelance project

A learning-obsessed startup out of Salt Lake City, Scripps Health is rethinking what healthcare software can be. We assume good intent first and ask clarifying questions second, which keeps the empathy-led days drama-free.

A $68,000 - $96,000 base, a growth plan with teeth, mentorship from people who care, and flexibility baked in, that is what Scripps Health puts forward.

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