LPN - MTSU

UNC Health; Rocky Mount (NC); On-site; USD 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Nash in North Carolina seeks a Licensed Practical Nurse for a Skilled Nursing Facility. Join a dedicated team serving Nash, Edgecombe, Halifax, Wilson Counties with a focus on compassionate, high-quality care.

Responsibilities include care planning, monitoring patient responses, and supporting families during admission and discharge. Requires a current NC LPN license, accredited program completion, and BCLS.

Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited practical nursing program.
• NC LPN license and BCLS certification.
• Ability to read safety rules and operate routine nursing procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an individualized plan of care with interprofessional input.
• Observe and document patient responses to treatments; adjust care priorities.
• Participate in department activities and contribute to CQI initiatives.
• Provide a range of nursing care including medications, monitoring, and patient education.
• Support patients and families during admission, hospitalization, and discharge.

Skills

Language skills

Math skills

Reasoning ability

Education

Practical nursing 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.

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.

UNC Health Nash, an affiliated member of the UNC Health system, invites passionate healthcare professionals to join our esteemed team. Governed locally, we proudly serve a diverse patient base, spanning Nash, Edgecombe, Halifax, Wilson Counties, and beyond. With a steadfast commitment to elevating community health through exceptional care, we prioritize excellence, compassion, and innovation, ensuring every individual receives the highest standard of support. Joining our team means becoming an integral part of our dedication to wellness, where we constantly strive to redefine excellence in healthcare through state-of-the-art facilities and pioneering programs. Join us in this transformative journey, where your contributions will make a lasting impact on our community's health and wellbeing.

Summary

Serves as a Licensed Practical Nurse for a Skilled Nursing Facility.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provides assistance to patients and families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic experience, and discharge.
• Provides support to patients and families. Verbally de-escalates frightened or potentially aggressive patients. Facilitates age appropriate coping strategies for patients.

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Other Information

Education Requirements

• Completion of an accredited practical nursing program.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• NC LPN License, BCLS

Professional Experience Requirements

• None required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Job Details

• Legal Employer: Nash Hospitals
• Entity: Nash UNC Health Care
• Organization Unit: NGH Mtsu
• Work Type: Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 24.00
• Work Assignment Type: Onsite
• Work Schedule: Day Job
• Location of Job: NASH HC
• Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

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.