What are the responsibilities and job description for the License Practical Night Nurse position at Neulife Neurolgoical?
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
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Valid, unencumbered license as a Practical Nurse in the State of Florida #ZR
12 hour shift