LPN Float, UofL Hospital, 7a-7p, Part-Time, Weekend

UofL Health • Louisville, KY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Job Description: The Float Pool provides support to all of our inpatient units including intermediate, cardiac, surgical, and a variety of other service lines. Float pool staffing provides a crucial service for our customers, not only to ensure safe quality patient care, but provides support for our unit colleagues as well. You will be offered opportunities to expand your knowledge and maintain an expansive skill set with a variety of patients throughout the facility that will enable you to become a resource to others. About Us UofL Hospital, a 404-bed academic teaching and research hospital, is at the heart of the Louisville Metro area in downtown Louisville. UofL Hospital offers a second-to-none cancer center, world-renowned trauma team and a uniquely streamlined, nationally accredited stroke center—the latest innovations in a history of world-class care. UofL Hospital is the only adult Level I Trauma Center in the region, which includes the only dedicated burn center in Kentucky. Our Mission As an academic health care system, we will transform the health of the communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care. Additional Job Description: The LPN is responsible for providing patient care utilizing the nursing process. The nurse collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team and ancillary staff, to provide effective, safe quality care. The LPN is a key member of a team, which promotes patients’ recovery and functional improvement. UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with nine hospitals, four medical centers, Brown Cancer Center, Eye Institute, nearly 200 physician practice locations and more than 1,000 providers in Louisville and the surrounding counties, including southern Indiana. Additional access to UofL Health is provided through a partnership with Carroll County Memorial Hospital. With more than 14,000 team members – physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly-skilled health care professionals, UofL Health is focused on one mission: to transform the health of communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care. Please login into Workday and search for Job Hub.

Requirements

• Active Kentucky practical nurse license or compact license with privileges to work in Kentucky
• Practical degree in nursing from an accredited college or university
• Basic Life Support (BLS) accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Minimum of two (2) years of LPN experience in acute care or rehab

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates knowledge of nursing theory and practice within the scope of practice defined for LPN’s by the Kentucky Board of Nursing
• Assists in implementation of appropriate teaching program for individual patients
• Communicates effectively with other members of the interdisciplinary team
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served, including the knowledge and skill required to evaluate the appropriateness of medication therapy in geriatric, adolescents, adults, documented by participation in continuing education programs; LPN’s assigned to the pediatric unit will demonstrate skills in caring for pediatric patients of all ages
• Completes special projects as assigned according to established time frames
• Maintains patient care areas in a neat and clean manner according to shift assignment and established policy and procedure
• Labels patient supplies according to policy and procedure as evidenced by no omissions of supplies being dated and labeled with patient name and room number
• Ensures that equipment is properly functioning prior to and during patient use as demonstrated by no use of malfunctioning equipment with patient and no omission of completing maintenance requests
• Follows universal precautions for all patients as evidenced by compliance at all times to facility infection control policies
• Plans for patient safety, utilizing safety standards as evidenced at all time with safety procedures in the safety manual
• Contributes to performance improvement activities as requested to improve patient outcomes and achieve performance metrics
• Wears name tag and locator badge at all times
• Attends and participates in scheduled shift meetings 80% of the time when on duty and reads and initials all meeting minutes
• Contributes knowledge of current nursing literature and practice by in clinical situations
• Establishes and meets annual individual goals which are developed to achieve individual professional growth
• Demonstrates a commitment to quality in evidenced by successfully completing annual competencies within defined timelines
• Maintains compliance with employee health requirements
• Successfully completes all mandatory modules/in-services annually
• Provides evidence of completion of educational programs to the Education Department
• Maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards of conduct
• Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Competitive pay & benefits options
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays
• Free tuition to UofL for part- and full-time employees & for child/spouse/domestic partner
• 401K with employer match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees