Night Shift LPN: Compassionate Community Care

UNC Health Care; Woodridge (NC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

Nash UNC Health Care in Nash County, NC is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for a part-time night shift on site. You will participate in planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities include administering medications, monitoring patient status, assisting with admissions and discharges, and providing compassionate support to patients and families in a busy clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited practical nursing program.
• Current NC LPN license, BCLS certification.
• No professional experience required.

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 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.

Skills

Language Skills

Math Skills

Reasoning Ability

Education

Practical nursing program completion

Job description

Nash UNC Health Care in Nash County, NC is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for a part-time night shift on site. You will participate in planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities include administering medications, monitoring patient status, assisting with admissions and discharges, and providing compassionate support to patients and families in a busy clinical setting.