Licensed Practical Nurse - LPN

Freeport, ME

Posted: 03/08/2024 Industry: LPN Pay Rate: Competitive Hourly Pay, Holiday Pay, OT Pay, Earned Paid Time Off

Job Description

LPN

Duties & Responsibilities

  1. Receives and provides complete report on all assigned patients.
  2. Respects patient rights and maintains confidentiality.
  3. Notifies immediate supervisor of changes in patients’ conditions.
  4. Understands and uses aseptic technique.
  5. Prepares equipment and materials for treatments.
  6. Records all findings in patients’ clinical records.
  7. Performs other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.
  8. Nursing activities that may include:
    • Assistance in planning, evaluating and implementing patient care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.
    • Assisting clients with activities of daily living.
    • Teaching client self-care techniques.
    • Providing and maintaining safe environment for client.
    • Accepting responsibility of assignment to specialty area only when training has been provided.
    • Performing within the limits of preparation and experience.
    • Observing aseptic techniques when dealing with equipment and supplies used for treatment.
    • Assisting with patient admissions and discharges.
    • Notifying charge nurse or supervisor of changes in patients’ condition or unusual symptoms.
    • Assists in rehabilitation of clients.
    • Accepting accountability for actions while on duty.
    • Maintaining competency through continuing education.
    • Performing all nursing procedures for which trained and prepared.
    • Safeguarding equipment and supplies.
    • The following tasks are also considered essential functions of the position:
      • Lifting unspecified weights, depending on assignment requirements
      • Bending and stooping to prepare equipment and materials for treating patients or managing the patient/residents environment.
      • Transferring, turning and positioning patients and assisting patients in walking and moving from place to place.
      • Provides physical comfort and sees to emotional, physical and safety needs of client.
  1. Specific Areas of Skill
    1. These skills are undertaken only when approved by the facility’s Director of Nurses:
      • Intensive Care
      • Coronary Care
      • Intermediate Care
      • Neo-natal Intensive Care
      • Recovery Room
      • Emergency Room/Department
      • Psychiatric, including Alcohol Detoxification
      • Burns
      • Labor & Delivery
      • Operating Room
      • Pediatrics

Physical Environment

Exposure to all resident elements, including exposure to blood and body fluids and other unpleasant elements. At times, long and irregular hours are necessary. Exposure to hazardous substances is, at times, unavoidable. Frequent multiple tasks and resident needs will be assigned in a rapid fashion.

Physical Requirements

Work involves standing and/or walking over 70% of the time. There is moderate physical effort in positioning, pushing, pulling, overhead reaching, and lifting up to 50lbs. Moving and or repositioning residents of various weights and body shapes, with or without assistance. Vision and hearing acuteness is required always. Repeated bending, squatting, kneeling and stooping is necessary. The incumbent is subject to frustration and fatigue. Manual dexterity to perform all aspects of care in the administration of personal care and other therapies as prescribed for residents.

Occupational Risks

Occupational injuries may occur from not following safety policies and procedures regarding exposure to hazardous materials including blood and body fluids and potential injuries from sharp objects, violent individuals, and physical environment. Working with cleaning chemicals and other medicinal/pharmaceutical preparations which may require personal protective equipment.

Supervision and Expectations

When working in a facility, the Licensed Practical Nurse is under the direct supervision of the charge nurse of a specific unit or floor and the Director of Nursing.

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