LPN, Emergency Room, 24-Hours, Nights, 11:00pm - 7:00am, Every other weekend, Every other holiday, $7,500 Sign-On Bonus

Athol Hospital•Athol, MA

10d•$28 - $37•Onsite

About The Position

Heywood Healthcare values its employees and offers competitive wages, great benefits, and generous earned time off. This position is eligible for a $7,500 Sign-On Bonus. The role involves providing direct patient care, participating in care planning and evaluation, patient and family education, and discharge planning. The LPN will also delegate and supervise unlicensed personnel, prioritize patient care, document interventions and responses, and provide patient reports. The position requires a commitment to patient safety, ethical care, and medication administration. The LPN will assess pain levels, perform triage, identify and initiate safety plans for abuse victims, complete mandated reporting, collect forensic evidence, and maintain knowledge of disaster policies. The role also involves identifying patients at risk for violent behavior and understanding the use of restraints. The LPN will monitor 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.