LPN- Zachary Clinic

About the Role

Administers nursing care to designated patients under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse. Performs a variety of direct and indirect patient care duties in accordance with the needs of the age population served, as defined in the department's scope of service.

Performance Criteria

• Everyday Excellence Values
  • Demonstrates courtesy and caring to patients, families, physicians, and the community.
  • Takes initiative in living the organization’s values and vital signs.
  • Identifies customer needs proactively.
  • Participates willingly and enthusiastically in teamwork.
  • Respects the dignity and privacy of customers through personal actions and environmental attention.
  • Keeps customers informed, answers questions, and anticipates information needs.
• Corporate Compliance
  • Demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and Corporate Compliance Guidelines.
  • Maintains accurate and reliable patient and organizational records.
  • Communicates honestly and completely, behaving fairly and without discrimination.
• Personal Achievement
  • Uses accepted procedures to complete assignments and finds creative solutions under high workloads.
  • Adheres to high moral and ethical standards.
• Performance Improvement
  • Actively participates in performance improvement activities and quality initiatives.
  • Optimizes skills to meet and exceed customer expectations.
  • Contributes ideas to improve work processes and willingly participates in quality initiatives.
• Cost Management
  • Manages time and resources effectively.
  • Utilizes organizational resources efficiently and seeks resource-saving processes.
• Patient & Employee Safety
  • Communicates, demonstrates, and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
  • Proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries, or potential injuries.
  • Follows departmental safety standards, policies, and procedures at all times.

Responsibilities

• Collects data essential to patient assessment and reports deviations from normal to the physician.
  • Completes collection of assessment data.
  • Assists with reassessing patients according to unit standards or hospital policy and reports changes to the RN or physician.
  • Documents patient information 100% of the time.
• Performs patient care according to standards and patient needs.
  • Collects data from patients and families.
  • Provides education to patients and families.
  • Documents medication administration, treatments, interventions, and unusual occurrences accurately.
  • Administers medications as ordered by the physician.
  • Performs treatments as prescribed by the physician.
  • Directs and assists ancillary nursing staff with assigned duties.
  • Monitors IVs and blood for proper functioning and reports side effects to the RN or physician.
  • Starts IVs as needed and ordered by the physician.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Current Louisiana LPN licensure.
• One-year experience preferred.

Compliance & Safety

• HIPAA Requirements
  • Maintains knowledge of and adheres to HIPAA regulations, including but not limited to: medical records (paper and electronic), patient demographics, lab and radiology results, surgery/appointment schedules, patient financial and billing information, patient complaints, patient location, religious beliefs, and research information.
• Safety Requirements
  • Maintains knowledge of and adheres to safety practices, including but not limited to: incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps, and linens, PPE, exposure control plan, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, medication administration, order receipt, clinical alarm monitoring, and blood sample collection.