LPN - Urgent Care - Middlesex

UNC Health Care; Woodridge (NC); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Nash Urgent Care Middlesex is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse to join our team. The LPN will participate in planning, delivery, and evaluation of individualized patient care within a skilled nursing setting.

Day-to-day duties include nursing treatments, medication administration, and collaboration with physicians and staff. Education requires completion of an accredited practical nursing program and an active NC LPN license with BCLS.

Qualifications

• Language Skills: ability to read and interpret safety and procedure manuals.
• Mathematical Skills: perform basic calculations.
• Reasoning Ability: solve practical problems with concrete variables.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an individualized care plan.
• Observe, assess, document and report patient responses to treatments.
• Participate in unit and department enrichment activities.
• Provide a broad range of nursing treatments and administer medications.
• Assist patients and families during admission, orientation, and discharge.
• Provide support and de-escalate and comfort patients and families.

Skills

Language skills interpretation

Mathematical 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.

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

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

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: UNC Health Nash Urgent Care Middlesex

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

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.