Licensed Practical Nurse- Urology - PRN

Kaiser Permanente; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Float to Rock Creek

Float to Lone Tree

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Colorado is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to support patient care in a dynamic clinical setting. You will assist physicians, administer medications, and help ensure patient safety and comfort during visits and treatments.

Responsibilities include patient rooming, documenting observations, following sterile techniques, and promoting preventive health practices for patients and their families. Colorado licensure is required.

Qualifications

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in Colorado with current license.
• High school diploma or GED required.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to Kaiser Permanente quality, safety, and emergency policies.
• Maintain patient safety during care, including 5 rights and 3 checks of medications.
• Support physicians and providers, including rooming patients and communicating delays.
• Perform nursing procedures per physician orders and plan, including injections and IV therapy if certified.
• Monitor patient condition, document data, report changes, and initiate emergency procedures.
• Educate patients and families on preventive health, medications, injections, and home care.

Skills

Customer service

Education

LPN Colorado license

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

-May be entitled to translation/bilingual, shift or other wage premiums as governed by the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Please refer to the respective collective bargaining agreement for additional information on such wage premiums: https://www.lmpartnership.org/local-contracts.

Job Summary:

Makes members/patients and their needs a primary focus of ones actions; develops and sustains productive member/patient relationships. Actively seeks information to understand member/patient circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs. Builds rapport and cooperative relationship with members/patients. Considers how actions or plans will affect members; responds quickly to meet member/patient needs and resolves problems. Performs duties as under Nurse Practice Act (Portions adopted from the Colorado State Nurse Practice Act CRS 12-38-103).

Essential Responsibilities:

• This position knows and complies with all Kaiser Permanente quality, safety, and emergency policies and procedures. Demonstrates quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice in every interaction with patients, colleagues, providers, and leadership. Ensures patient safety in the preparation and provisioning of care related to but not limited to medications including the consistent use of 5 rights and 3 checks of medication administration, procedures, infection prevention, fall prevention, including consistent use of two patient identifiers and procedural time outs. Reports safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions promptly.
• Applies principles of asepsis and infection control. Maintains a safe and therapeutic patient care environment, including identifying malfunctioning equipment.
• Supports the physician and other medical providers in the care and treatment of patients, including rooming the patient; communicating delays to patient, provider, and team members; and facilitating the medical providers schedule. Performs duties and responsibilities with excellence, enthusiasm, great service orientation demonstrating courteous behaviors and mannerisms, and by anticipating physician and other medical providers needs.
• Practices within scope of practice perimeters as inferred by licensure, standard nursing practice, knowledge, skill level, and KP guidelines.
• Performs routine and specialized nursing procedures following physicians orders and approved nursing care plan, e.g. administers treatment using therapeutic equipment, such as intermittent positive pressure breathing apparatus; administers medications (including narcotics) orally or by injections; and provides specialized nursing care to acutely ill patients. If IV certified LPN, may perform intravenous therapy, as per Colorado State Board of Nursing Chapter IX.
• Monitors patients condition by observing, collecting, reporting, and recording objective/subjective data; identifies changes in the patients condition; collect data and report sign and symptoms of deviation from normal health status, symptoms and/or reactions to medications and treatments; initiates appropriate standard emergency procedures and reports adverse patient conditions to physician, Nursing Manager, or registered nurse.
• Teaches and promotes general preventive health measures to patients and members of their families regarding home health care, such as use of medications, administering injections, taking blood pressure, general post-operative care, and general diabetic care. Disseminates pre-printed standard aftercare instructions and pre-printed patient instruction material. Licensed Practical Nurse.
• Assists physician with examinations, treatments and minor surgery, by preparing patient and room for a specific procedure and attending patient during procedure.
• Records pertinent information in patients medical chart, e.g., patients nursing history, physical data, vital signs, symptoms, treatments, examinations, medications administered, reactions and general observations, according to standard requirements.
• Assists in orienting and training new employees, as assigned. May perform the duties of a Nursing Assistant or Medical Receptionist, as required. May assign/coordinate activities for nursing and medical assistants and medical receptionist.
• Orders, stores and maintains adequate inventory of supplies and instruments used by department as assigned.
• In addition to defined technical requirements, accountable for consistently demonstrating service behaviors and principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission as well as specific departmental/organizational initiatives. Also accountable for consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and to purchasers, contracted providers and vendors.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience:

• N/A

Education:

• Graduation from an accredited Practical Nursing program and licensed as a Practical Nurse (LPN) in the State of Colorado and completed a minimum of 400 clock hours of faculty planned clinical experience and guided learning activities which required direct supervision by faculty, associate nursing instructional personnel (ANIP) or preceptor who is physically present or immediately accessible.
• High School Diploma OR General Education Diploma (GED) required.

License, Certification, Registration:

• Practical Nurse License (Colorado)
• Basic Life Support within 3 months of hire

Additional Requirements:

• Demonstrated customer service focus and exemplary service skills.
• I.V. therapy certification may be required for some positions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BLS preferred.
• Six (6) months of experience with adults, pediatrics and/or trauma preferred.
• I.V. therapy certification preferred.

Possibility to float to Rock Creek or Lone Tree

General shift times include 7:45 am - 4:30, 7:00 am - 3:45 pm and 8:00 am - 4:45 pm