RPRC requires all LVN contractors to care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in a home setting and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Job Tasks are as follows:

• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

• Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.

• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.

• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.

• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.

• Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.

• Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.

• Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.

• Provide medical treatment keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.

• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.

• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.

• Record food and fluid intake and output.

• Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.

• Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.

• Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.

• Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.

• Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.

• Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Per diem, Travel nursing

Medical specialties:

• Home Health

Physical setting:

• Nursing home

Standard shift:

• Day shift
• Night shift

Weekly schedule:

• Choose your own hours
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

License/Certification:

• LVN (Preferred)
• BLS Certification (Preferred)

Work Location: On the road