LPN - Emergency Department

Employment Type: Full Time (36 hours per week) – Night Shift (7 PM to 7 AM)

About the role

This position accepts responsibility and accountability for the delivery of patient care with the multidisciplinary team while using the nursing process and maintaining professional nursing standards.

Responsibilities

• Assesses and evaluates the patient’s physical, psychosocial, environmental, spiritual, social, and education needs and documents patient/family responses to nursing interventions while working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to achieve desired patient care outcomes.
• Assists in the development and implementation of the patient’s plan of care, including the discharge plan, based on standards of nursing practice, health center policy, and patient/family needs using clinical/critical thinking skills.
• Reviews and updates the plan of care based on changes in the patient’s condition.
• Provides, facilitates, and/or implements learning opportunities to meet the educational needs of patient/family by assessing learning needs and formulating and initiating a teaching plan.
• Effectively communicates pertinent patient changes/conditions to colleagues and multidisciplinary caregivers.
• Attends and participates in departmental/organizational meetings, in-services, and educational opportunities. Department meeting attendance requirement: 80% with 50% in person if department meetings are available by webinar.
• Serves as a steward for the hospital’s human and material resources. Meets productivity expectations of unit/department as defined by unit manager. Utilizes and maintains appropriate supplies in department.
• Supports staffing needs for patient care in multiple units, as needed, while being flexible with schedule and hours.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited LPN program required.
• Current LPN licensure in the state of Iowa required.
• Previous experience in acute care preferred; one year preferred.

Benefits

• MercyOne Nurses Rock Scholarship – loan repayment for ADN or BSN.
• Education Assistance offered.
• Effective Day 1 Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, and more) for positions 16 hours per week or greater.
• Competitive wages; including weekend and night differentials.
• Generous paid time off program.
• Retirement Savings program with employer match starting on Day 1.

About the organization

MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center provides expert health care to 15 counties. It is a 342-bed, regional referral teaching hospital in Mason City, Iowa. MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center is an 11-bed, rural access hospital in New Hampton, Iowa. The service area spans 15 counties across northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, serving a population of over 260,000.

With more than 3,000 colleagues and a medical staff of almost 500 physicians and allied health professionals, MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center is the largest employer in the region. MercyOne Medical Group – North Iowa is part of Iowa’s largest multispecialty clinic systems, with more than 25 primary care, pediatric, internal medicine, and specialty clinics in north Iowa.