Per Diem Licensed Practical Nurse II - Outpatient - Various Clinics

About the role

Under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, applies the nursing process to deliver basic, safe, therapeutic care and administering medications for individuals or groups of patients. May provide patient care in a specialty area but not limited to: medical/surgical, labor and delivery, PEDS, and the emergency room. May work with high risk patients.

Requirements

• Equivalent to graduation from high school and one (1) year of clinical experience as a LPN.
• Current License by the Nevada State Board of Nursing to Practice as a Practical Nurse.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification accepted by the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Two (2) years of recent LPN clinic or urgent care experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Basic life support; nursing process (implementation and coordination of patient care); patient standards of care; disease process; medical terminology; human anatomy; basics of pharmacology and medication administration.
• Proper techniques for dressing wounds, removing sutures and staples, etc; aseptic techniques; nurse practice act; department and hospital safety practices and procedures; patient rights; infection control policies and practices.
• Handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures; age specific patient care practices.
• Proper medication administration (except epidural and intravenous route); delivery of patient care; performing basic life support; maintaining sterile technique.
• Using equipment associated with specialty area and the nursing process; communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds under stressful conditions.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties; efficient, effective and safe use of equipment.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Mobility to work in a typical clinical setting and use standard equipment, including stamina to remain standing and/or walk for extended periods of time.
• Strength to examine and treat varied patients; vision to read printed materials and a VDT screen; hearing and speech to communicate effectively in person and over the telephone.
• Strength and agility to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this classification.