Licensed Practical Nurse - Cardiology at Eastowne

UNC REX Healthcare; Eastowne (NC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC seeks a licensed practical nurse (LPN) for full-time, day-shift, on-site care in the Cardiology unit. Provides direct patient care across ages, following physician orders and nursing policies, with scope including respiratory care, med administration, and patient education.

Under the supervision of the medical team, you will document responses, adjust care priorities, and participate in CQI activities.

Qualifications

• Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program.
• Licensed to practice as an LPN in North Carolina with BLS.
• No prior experience required.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to development and maintenance of an individualized plan of care.
• Observes, assesses, documents, and reports patient response to treatments and teaching.
• Participates in unit/department enrichment activities.
• Provides a broad range of treatments and nursing tasks per plan of care.
• Supports patients and families during admission, orientation, and discharge.
• De-escalates distressed patients and supports coping strategies.

Skills

Patient care

Observation & reporting

Documentation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Board of Nursing approved nursing education program

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Come join our growing team!

UNC Cardiology health professionals offercomprehensive carefor patients with cardiac health concerns. Our physicians can provide you withpreventative guidancefor issues such as high cholesterol or blood pressure. Ourinterventional teamoffers a range of advanced, minimally invasive interventional treatments. We provide a full array of diagnostic and screening services.

Join our team at Eastowne, where compassion meets cutting-edge technology! Complete with free and convenient parking, no nights, weekends, holidays.

Schedule and Location:

• Address: 100 Eastowne Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
• Monday-Friday 8a-5p
• No weekends
• No holidays

Commitment Incentive: $5,000 (equal payments made to the teammateevery six (6) months during athree (3) year work commitment).

Summary

Provides direct patient care, meeting both psychological and physical needs in accordance with the plan of care, physician's orders, and nursing and department policies and procedures. Patients range in age from neonate to geriatric. Care may be provided in an inpatient setting, ambulatory care, home health, or hospice.

Responsibilities

• 1. Contributes to the development and maintenance of a current, individualized, goal-oriented plan of care and consults with other health professionals to assure that the assessed needs of patient/caregiver are met.
• 2. Observes, assesses, documents, and reports patient response to treatments/therapies and teaching, and adjusts priorities of care according to patient/caregiver needs. Collects, documents, and reports (to responsible MD or RN) data regarding patient's biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, and discharge planning needs.
• 3. Participates in unit, service, and/or department enrichment activities which contribute to positive outcomes such as assigned committees, CQI activities/groups, and the orientation and education of other personnel.
• 4. Provides a broad range of treatments/therapies to patients including, but not limited to, respiratory treatments, Oral/NG/NT suctioning, and tracheostomy care, administration of medications, observation of cardiac monitors, respirators, etc. and reporting of any changes, assistance to physician with special procedures, monitoring of intravenous infusions, performs point of care testing, performs routine laboratory work, changing/irrigating catheters, specialized sterile dressings, and patient/caregiver teaching based upon the established teaching plan.
• 5. Provides assistance to patients and families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic experience, and discharge.
• 6. Provides support to patients and families. Verbally de-escalates frightened or potentially aggressive patients. Facilitates age appropriate coping strategies for patients.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

• Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

• Licensed to practice as a Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state of North Carolina. Requires BLS.

Professional Experience Requirements:

• No prior experience required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: UNCH Cardiology at ET

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $21.62 - $31.07 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

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