Licensed Practical Nurse- Float Pool

About the role

Beloit Health System is seeking a compassionate, flexible, and patient-focused Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join the Inpatient Float Pool at Beloit Memorial Hospital. This role provides the opportunity to work across multiple inpatient care areas, supporting a variety of patient populations while gaining broad clinical experience in a dynamic healthcare environment. Under the direction of a Registered Nurse, the Float Pool LPN delivers safe, effective, and compassionate nursing care to patients across the lifespan. The LPN contributes to the nursing process by assisting with patient assessments, implementing care plans, administering treatments and medications, monitoring patient conditions, and collaborating with the healthcare team to promote positive patient outcomes. Success in this role requires adaptability, sound clinical judgment, and the ability to transition effectively between different care settings.

Responsibilities

• Make effective contributions to RN initiated ongoing assessments.
• Organize assessment data so they are accurate, complete and accessible.
• Follow nursing care plans and observe established policies and procedures to assure proper treatment and care of patients; initiate and record patient treatments in an accurate and precise manner; document nursing actions taken and their effectiveness in nurse's notes or flow sheets.
• Recognize significant behavioral and physiological changes and document them and inform the registered nurse of significant patient care changes.
• Ensure patient safety while handling, transporting and providing medications to patients; protect patients from various hazards, falls, disease exposure, etc.
• Safely administer oral, enteral, rectal, and topical medications in accordance with scope of practice and organizational policy.
• Evaluate and document patient response to nursing care delivered as per protocol timeframe.
• Make contributions to patient and family teaching through the involvement of the family and significant others; document patient and family teaching activities.
• Utilize sound judgment in responding to patient emergency situations.
• Initiate and discontinue peripheral IV access devices upon successful completion of required competency validation.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Graduate of accredited NLN LPN school of nursing.
• Active Wisconsin LPN licensure.
• CPR certified or certification within 3 months of hire.
• Completion of Beloit Health System telemetry course/test within 3 months of hire.
• Ability to work independently and react calmly and effectively in emergency situations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

Schedule

Shift: 1st or 3rd. Schedule: 7a-7p or 7p-7a. Hours per week: 24-30 hours per week.

Benefits

Benefits Status: Benefits Eligible.