Job Description
Job Summary:
The LPN applies knowledge of basic growth and development in patient
care; incorporates knowledge of the nursing process and the professional
standards of basic growth and development to perform assessments;
and provides care based on the physical and psychosocial needs of
the patient.
Essential
Duties:
* Works closely with resource RN to ensure interventions/documentation,
to be completed by an RN, are completed on assigned patients.
* Monitors and interprets patient status/information based on knowledge
of growth/development and age; recognizes basic changes based on data
collected and keeps resource RN informed.
* Prioritizes, initiates, and delegates appropriate interventions
based on patient need.
* Evaluates patient response to action plan and intervenes appropriately.
* Recognizes own limitation on clinical skills/knowledge and seeks
assistance to meet patient needs.
* Demonstrates ability to administer medication and treatments safely
and effectively based on age and development of patient.
* Recognizes and effectively deals with patient/significant other-related
issues while maintaining their sense of worth/dignity.
* Works closely with resource RN to ensure interventions/documentation,
to be completed by an RN, are completed on assigned patients.
* Evaluates patient response to action plan and intervenes appropriately.
* Communicates and takes ownership of own educational and clinical
department needs.
* Demonstrates the ability to use, maintain, and troubleshoot patient
care equipment.
* Notifies appropriate physicians or support personnel of patient
care needs in a timely manner (i.e., abnormal lab values, EKG changes
and referrals, etc.).
* Performs nursing duties in a timely manner.
* Demonstrates the ability to use, maintain, and troubleshoot patient
care equipment.
* Provides appropriate patient/significant other education based upon
assessed needs and patient age.
Additional
Responsibilities:
* Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism
through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.
* Adheres to and exhibits our core values:
Reverence: Having a profound spirit of awe and respect for all creation,
shaping relationships to self, to one another and to God and acknowledging
that we hold in trust all that has been given to us.
Integrity: Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity
as a basis of trustworthiness.
Compassion: Feeling with others, being one with others in their sorrows
and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members of the human
community.
Excellence: Outstanding achievement, merit, virtue; continually surpassing
standards to achieve/maintain quality.
* Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.
* Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards
and guidelines.
* Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.
* Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively
with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the broader
health care community.
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