Summary of the Job :
Care for post-operative patients in the hospital setting. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Louisiana PN Licensing required.
This position will work 12 hour shifts.
Essential Functions
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Apply compresses and ice bags.
- Assemble and use equipment such as catheters and oxygen suppliers.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health-care team members as necessary.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, moving in bed, and standing and walking.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests and treatments and explain procedures.
- Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures and blood pressure, dressing wounds, giving enemas, or performing catheterizations.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Supervise patient care techs.
- Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
- All other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Education and Experience- Graduate of accredited Licensed Practical Nursing Program
- License, Certificate or Registration : Current Louisiana State Licensure
Additional Information :
BLS Required
ACLS Required
Benefits are offered with this position after a waiting period.
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