Job Title: LPN/LVN

Location: Utica, NY

Duration of contract: 13 weeks (with possible extension)

Shift: 2:30p-10:30p

Requirements:

• UPDATED RESUME
• LPN LICENSE
• BLS (AHA)
• COVID VACCINE COPY
• 2 REFERENCES (either of supervisor or manager)

Job Description:

• Hospital experience required.
• LTC experience preferred
• Patient populations: MS, ortho, dementia, memory care
• Minimum 1-2 years’ experience.
• Will accept local candidates for LPN jobs.
• Any surgery experience would be great as well as some wound experience would be helpful but not necessary.
• Experience in an Ambulatory setting is preferred.
• Provides safe and effective nursing care, including the delegation of selected activities to unlicensed assistive personnel within their scope of practice.
• Under the direction of the RN, and participates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and modification of plans for nursing care for the patient and their family.
• Accessing central lines for medication administration or blood draws.
• Serves as the second team member in a two-person independent double check or skin assessment.
• Performs and documents physical assessments in the EHR.
• Delivers patient and family education including education specific to the discharge process.
• Inserts indwelling urinary catheters and nasogastric tubes with specific training and competency.
• Collects lab specimens, performs bladder scans, and manages wound dressings including wound vacs.
• Participates in unit/hospital projects, which seek to improve patient care.
• Provide patient/family teaching as appropriate.
• Coordinates activities of multiple disciplines to meet the plan of care.
• Documents plan findings and evaluation according to policy.
• Assures the safety of the patient population served by demonstrating age-appropriate skills in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care. Assumes responsibility for attendance according to policy.

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Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $45.00 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Medical-Surgical

Physical setting:

• Long term care

Standard shift:

• Evening shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Breakdown pay
• Overtime pay

Weekly schedule:

• 5x8

Ability to Relocate:

• Utica, NY: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person