AM Licensed Practical Nurse III

About the role

Positions in this job family are assigned responsibilities for performing technical direct and indirect nursing care in a clinic, hospital, institution, or home setting for individuals under the supervision or direction of a registered nurse, licensed physician, or dentist. This includes taking temperatures, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure, and various other technical nursing tasks in providing health care to patients and others.

Responsibilities

• Performs nursing procedures or specialized functions in accordance with knowledge, skills, and licensure.
• Participates in the evaluation of responses to interventions.
• Teaches basic nursing skills and related principles.
• Delegates nursing care tasks such as: taking temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure, giving enemas, douches, and sitz baths, collecting specimens, and measuring intake and output.
• Affords assistance in assessing, reporting, and recording health status of patients, families, and groups in a variety of settings.
• Develops and implements appropriate aspects of a plan of care.
• Administers medications as ordered.
• Reports appropriate patient information to supervisor or appropriate health team member.
• Serves as Charge Nurse on a unit, supervising staff performing medication administration and patient care.
• Performs other related duties as assigned consistent with the responsibilities of the position and agency operations.

Requirements

• Possession of a valid permanent Oklahoma license as a licensed practical nurse as approved by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing plus two years of practical nursing experience.
• Licensed Practical Nurse License recognized by the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) plus two years of practical nursing experience.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of nursing techniques, procedures, practices, and theory.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Knowledge of infection control measures.

Skills

• Ability to exercise sound judgment.
• Ability to follow detailed oral or written instructions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to provide nursing care to patients or clients.
• Ability to monitor and direct the work of others.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$31.00/hr. Shift differential $1.44 hour from 3pm - 7am.

Schedule

Full time.