Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse

Primary Job Duties

• Assist with the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation process according to the patient's age and diagnosis.
• Effectively and efficiently assist with patient care management in coordination with a multidisciplinary team.
• Appropriately communicate information in accordance with agency policies and procedures and discipline-specific guidelines.
• Contribute to program effectiveness.
• Organize and perform work effectively and efficiently.
• Maintain and adjust schedule to enhance agency performance.
• Demonstrate a daily commitment to the values of the agency.
• Demonstrate positive interpersonal relations in dealing with all members of the agency.
• Maintain and promote customer satisfaction.
• Effectively demonstrate the mission, vision, and values of the agency on a daily basis.

Job Specifications

• Education: Graduate of an accredited or approved school of practical nursing.
• Licensure / Certifications: Current license to practice practical nursing in the State of North Carolina. CPR certification required.
• Experience: Minimum one year practical nursing experience required. Home health experience preferred.
• Essential Technical / Motor Skills: Hand/eye coordination in order to give injections, use computer, etc. Must be able to communicate and be literate in the English language. Able to manipulate patient care equipment, to properly transfer and guard patients.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to develop positive interaction with patients, patients' families, physicians, and staff in order to effectively care for the patients.
• Essential Physical Requirements: Ability to transfer and/or maneuver objects weighing at least 50 pounds in the assessment and implementation of patient care. Requires frequent pushing, moving, lifting of patients. Positioning of patients, giving patients baths, and ambulating patients expending much physical effort. Occasionally requires reaching overhead, stair climbing, and fine motor manipulation.
• Essential Mental Abilities: Must be able to assess a patient's condition, formulate a plan of care, select appropriate interventions, evaluate patient's response to care/treatment, and explain/teach patients about their condition/recovery. Requires higher level of mental faculties accompanied by short- and long-term memory. Able to prioritize duties, learn new skills and techniques in patient care. Able to learn and use supportive services.
• Essential Sensory Requirements: Ability to visually assess patients and to utilize sight to implement and evaluate plan of care (changing dressings, performing phlebotomy, regulating IV's, maintaining equipment as to readouts, etc.). Utilize hearing to auscultate lung sounds, bowel sounds, hear alarms, and effectively communicate with patients, families, physician, and staff.
• Exposure to Hazards: Noise, exposure to bloodborne pathogens and body fluids, needle puncture wounds. May be exposed to dangerous animals and traffic hazards while home visiting. May encounter patients and other situations which present a potential threat to personal safety. May encounter temperature changes and weather extremes.
• Hours of Work: Variable Monday–Friday, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Population Served: Adolescents, adults, geriatrics, and pediatrics.
• Must have a valid North Carolina driver's license and an operational vehicle.