Licensed Practical Nurse LPN, Gastroenterology Clinic

Overview:

Licensed Practical Nurse LPN, Gastroenterology Clinic, Javon Bea Hospital campuses, Days, 80 hours / 2 weeks

Experience a rewarding and fulfilling career with Mercyhealth. Mercyhealth is committed to offering our partners a best place to work. Our unique workplace Culture of Excellence is built upon:

• Employee engagement, empowerment and growth
• Teamwork toward our common goal providing exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better
• An atmosphere of caring and quality that cascades throughout the organization

• Collects patient data and documents in the medical record.
• Assists with procedures, examinations and testing as needed.
• Reviews physician's orders, lab requests, or follow-up needs with patient.
• Documents services provided in the medical record.
• Reads and understands complex medical documentation.
• Provides patient treatments as ordered.
• Observes patients and reports adverse reactions to medication or treatment
• Administers specified medications as allowed by policy and procedure, licensure, and State Practice Act.
• Participates in patient teaching
• Provides basic healthcare instruction to family and patient.
• Performs venipuncture to collect blood specimens.
• Participates in QA & I.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Graduate of an accredited LPN Program.
• Experience in clinical setting preferred.

• Licensed as a Licensed Practical Nurse in state of practice.
• Approved CPR or BLS certification required within 90 days.

The Special Physical Demands are considered Essential Job Functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.