Temporary LPN, Emergency Room, 24-Hours, Days, 7:00am - 3:30pm, Every other weekend, Every other holiday

Athol Hospital•Athol, MA

8d•$28 - $37•Onsite

About The Position

Heywood Healthcare values its employees and offers competitive wages, great benefits, and generous earned time off. This is a temporary LPN position in the Emergency Room, working 24-hours a day, during the day shift from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm. The schedule includes working every other weekend and every other holiday. The role involves assessing patient health status, planning and implementing nursing interventions, providing patient care with dignity, and educating patients and families. The position also requires appropriate delegation and supervision of unlicensed personnel, prioritization of patient care, accurate documentation, and effective communication with healthcare team members. Additionally, the LPN will promote learning for colleagues and self, identify risks to patient safety, manage ethical issues in care, administer medications and IV therapy, assess and manage pain, perform triage, identify and initiate safety plans for abuse cases, complete mandated reporting, collect and document forensic evidence, maintain chain of evidence, and be knowledgeable of disaster policies. The role also involves identifying patients at risk for violent behavior and implementing interventions, as well as understanding and documenting the use of restraints. The LPN will also recognize and report abnormal laboratory and diagnostic results and identify cardiac arrhythmias.

Requirements

Completed state-approved LPN education program
Minimum 1 year ER experience required
Current LPN license to practice in MA
American Heart Association CPR certified

Responsibilities

Assesses (and reassesses) basic health status, participates in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
Participates in patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
Participates in planning and preparation of patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by unlicensed personnel.
Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.).
Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients’ response to medication.
Performs triage appropriately, in a timely manner per policy, and assigns triage priority.
Performs and documents initial assessment upon patients’ arrival and implements triage protocols as needed.
Identifies patients at risk for potential/alleged abuse.
Initiates safety plans for domestic violence, child, and elder abuse patients.
Completes required mandated reporting in a timely manner.
Collects and documents forensic evidence as per policy.
Maintains chain of evidence per policy and procedure.
Completes mandated reports for stabbings, gunshot wounds, burns, and sexual assault per policy and procedure.
Maintains knowledge of Disaster Policy and Procedure.
Identifies patient at risk for violent behavior and appropriately implements non-violent intervention (i.e. Code 100).
Demonstrates knowledge of the indications for, alternatives, monitoring and documentation of restraint to use.
Recognizes normal and abnormal laboratory and diagnostic results and appropriately notifies the physician of changes in a timely manner.
Performs accurate and timely identification of cardiac arrhythmias.