LPN - New Graduate - MTSU

UNC Health • Rocky Mount, NC

9d • Onsite

About The Position

Serves as a Licensed Practical Nurse for a Skilled Nursing Facility. Contributes to individualized patient care planning, monitors and documents patient responses, provides a broad range of treatments and therapies, supports patients and families during admission and discharge, and participates in activities that promote positive patient outcomes. The role is onsite at Nash UNC Health Care, in the NGH Mtsu organization unit, and is full time, with 36 standard hours per week and a variable work schedule.

Requirements

• Completion of an accredited practical nursing program.
• North Carolina LPN license.
• BCLS certification.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to solve practical problems in situations with limited standardization and interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-based instructions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a current, individualized, goal-oriented plan of care, consulting with other health professionals to ensure assessed patient and caregiver needs are met.
• Observe, assess, document, and report patient responses to treatments, therapies, and teaching; adjust care priorities according to patient and caregiver needs.
• Collect, document, and report patient data concerning biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, and discharge-planning needs to the responsible physician or registered nurse.
• Participate in unit, service, or department enrichment activities, including assigned committees, continuous quality improvement activities, and the orientation and education of other personnel.
• Provide treatments and therapies, including respiratory treatments, oral/NG/NT suctioning, tracheostomy care, medication administration, monitoring cardiac monitors and respirators, assisting physicians with special procedures, monitoring intravenous infusions, point-of-care testing, routine laboratory work, catheter changing and irrigation, specialized sterile dressings, and patient and caregiver teaching based on the established teaching plan.
• Assist patients and families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital or clinic experience, and discharge.
• Support patients and families, verbally de-escalate frightened or potentially aggressive patients, and facilitate age-appropriate coping strategies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed