LVN Apprenticeship

United Regional•Wichita Falls, TX

11d

About The Position

The Nurse Apprentice plans and delivers selected aspects of nursing care under the direct supervision of an LVN or Registered Nurse Preceptor/Clinical Instructor. The apprentice may perform technical skills taught in their nursing program after accurately demonstrating each skill to the Preceptor or Clinical Educator. The role includes personal and hygiene care, patient activity and transport, assistance with admissions, transfers, and discharges, observation and reporting of patient conditions, and support for routine unit activities. Technical skills may be performed when competence has been verified through educational checkoffs or the organization’s precepted orientation programs. Medication administration is permitted only under direct preceptor or clinical instructor supervision, with documentation in the electronic medical record and a required co-signature. The Nurse Apprentice may not receive verbal orders, acknowledge physician orders without direct RN Preceptor supervision, initiate blood products, or co-sign high-risk medications.

Requirements

Must be enrolled and in good standing in an accredited LVN or RN program.
Must be within 12 months of anticipated graduation.
CPR certification.
Ability to understand and follow written and oral instructions.
Ability to recognize problems and report them using sound judgment.
Reading, writing, speaking, and basic addition and subtraction skills.
Ability to work under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
Must not receive verbal orders, acknowledge physician orders without direct RN Preceptor supervision, initiate blood products, or co-sign high-risk medications.

Responsibilities

Provide personal and hygiene care, including assistance with elimination, activity, and patient transportation.
Use appropriate equipment and supplies for assigned tasks and avoid wasting supplies.
Report broken equipment and unsafe conditions; help stock and clean supply areas and nutrition stations.
Follow hospital and safety policies and procedures when performing procedures and conducting work.
Respond promptly to patient call-lights and assist with patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Observe patient conditions and promptly report untoward signs or symptoms and unusual occurrences.
Assist other team members with duties and seek assistance when needed.
Help collect and transport laboratory specimens and retrieve blood or blood products from the laboratory and supplies or equipment from CS.
Perform technical skills for which competence has been verified, potentially including 12-lead EKGs and remote monitoring, Foley catheter insertion and care, specimen collection, surgical preparations, and NG tube insertion or removal.
Assist with unit-specific routine patient care protocols, BBG monitoring, peripheral venipuncture, IV starts, and discontinuation of peripheral IVs.
Shadow and learn organizational and medicolegal procedures for accepting and transferring patients and managing death.
Administer medications under direct supervision of a preceptor or clinical instructor; document administration in the electronic medical record and obtain the required co-signature.
Perform other tasks and responsibilities as necessary.