Wound Care LPN- Part Time Days

Responsibilities

• Aids the Registered Nurse by collecting, recording, and reporting age-specific data including heart rate, pulse oximetry, and blood pressure.
• Collects wound photography and measurements, ensuring data completeness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.
• Reports unusual observations or changes in patient condition or behavior promptly.
• Completes all aspects of patient care, including age-appropriate techniques for activities of daily living (ADLs), mobility, transfers, positioning, hygiene, toileting, and correct application of orthosis/prostheses, and use of adaptive devices.
• Assists with proper lifting and handling of patients and equipment.
• Removes normal clinic trash and reviews sharps containers.
• Orders and maintains inventory of clinical supplies for the department.
• Answers phones, greets customers, routes calls to appropriate staff, and coordinates patient appointments.
• Coordinates patient ancillary testing with other hospital departments.
• Completes all Penn chart clinical documentation.
• Maintains office equipment (ordering as appropriate).

Requirements

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)

Credentials

• H.S. Diploma or GED
• 3+ years patient care experience or medical office experience