Licensed Practical Nurse-Surgical, Full Time Variable

Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina – Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, 3 VPN Surgical

About the Role

3 VPN is a 24-bed unit with all private rooms, operating on a track schedule. The team cares for adult and geriatric patients who do not require telemetry, critical drip infusions, or ventilator support. Patient ratio is 1:5. The care team includes Registered Nurses, a Clinical Educator, Nursing Assistants, Unit Secretaries, and Resource Nurses. New Graduate Nurses are accepted and welcome.

Common diagnoses and treatments include:

• Bariatric surgeries (sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass)
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Laparoscopic appendectomy
• GYN surgeries
• Fetal demise
• Urology surgeries
• Breast surgeries
• All abdominal/bowel surgeries
• Incision & drainage/wound infections
• General trauma surgeries

Responsibilities

• Participates in assessment of patients
• Collaborates with departmental and interdisciplinary groups in developing the patient plan of care
• Follows patient’s plan of care while providing direct nursing care to assigned patients
• Adjusts care based upon age-specific physiological needs of patients as directed by the Registered Nurse or other authorized person(s)
• Maintains an accurate and relevant record of patient care
• Administers medication as ordered by physician
• Facilitates a safe environment
• Recognizes life-threatening situations and responds appropriately
• Maintains required competencies
• Participates in Performance Improvement activities and monitors the quality of care
• Establishes collaborative interpersonal relationships with other Health System staff
• Supports patients in the practice of their cultural and spiritual beliefs within limits of the medical regimen
• Actively participates in cost containment and completes accurate charging for patient services
• Actively demonstrates responsibility concerning customer satisfaction, patient throughput, and hospital functional capacity through compliance with the Hospital Innovation Project (HIP), if applicable
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Current licensure in North Carolina as a Licensed Practical Nurse or Compact state licensure
• BLS certification – American Heart Association
• 1-2 years of related clinical experience preferred

Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrates positive interpersonal skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of age-specific physiological and psychosocial needs of adult and geriatric patients

Physical Requirements

• Speech and auditory acuity for communication of patient needs
• Visual acuity for observation of patients
• Long periods of standing, walking, bending, and lifting
• May involve skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious material