Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Job Description
Job Description
Job Summary
Cares for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in 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
- Active LPN License in the state of Minnesota
- Education : Associate's degree in nursing
- Experience : LPN license with 1-2 years of related experience
- Current BLS certification
Skills
- Service orientation
- Active listening
- Coordination
- Monitoring
Company Description
Diamond HealthCare Staffing LLC strives to be a leader in Long Term and Short-Term Temporary Staffing Solutions and currently services Private, Public and Government Organizations.
Diamond HealthCare Staffing LLC was built from the ground up and prides itself on its integrity, talent, work ethic, teamwork and it strives to give back to the communities that it serves
Company Description
Diamond HealthCare Staffing LLC strives to be a leader in Long Term and Short-Term Temporary Staffing Solutions and currently services Private, Public and Government Organizations.
Diamond HealthCare Staffing LLC was built from the ground up and prides itself on its integrity, talent, work ethic, teamwork and it strives to give back to the communities that it serves