License Practical Night Nurse

Job Summary

• Cares for spinal cord and TBI, patients or persons with disabilities admissions from hospitals and similar institutions.

General Accountabilities

• Administers prescribed medications or starts intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
• Observes patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions.
• Answers patients' calls and determines how to assist them.
• Measures and records patients' vital signs.
• Provides basic patient care or treatments.
• Works as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
• Supervises nurses' aides or assistants.
• Assembles and uses equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Records food and fluid intake and output.
• Collects samples, such as blood and urine from patients, and performs routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Prepares patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
• Helps patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
• Sterilizes equipment and supplies.
• *The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Associate's degree in nursing 
• Experience: LPN license with 1-2 years of related experience

Skills

• Service orientation
• Active listening
• Coordination
• Monitoring
• Wound Care
• IV Certified