LPN - Nurse - Licensed Practical Nurse

Job Summary:

The Licensed Practical will perform nursing acts in accordance with the nurse practice act to care for residents. He or she may work under the supervision of the nurse manager on duty.

Duties/Responsibilities:

- Administers medications or starts intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on residents’ charts

- Observes residents, charts and reports changes in conditions such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment and takes necessary actions

- Answers residents’ calls and determines how to assist them

- Measures and records residents’ vital signs such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration

- Provides basic resident care or treatments such as dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations

- Works as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plans and modifies care, and implements interventions

- Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members

- Assembles and uses equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers

- Records food and fluid intake and output

- Fulfills additional duties as assigned