LPN Internal Contract, Skilled Nursing

JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: Administers nursing care to designated patients under the direction/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 care.

Performance Criteria

CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values

• Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
• Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
• Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
• Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
• Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance

• Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
• Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
• Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

CRITERIA E: Cost Management

• Effectively manages time and resources.
• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.
• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety

• Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
• Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
• Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
• Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures, and plans.

Job Functions

• 1. Performs patient care according to standards of care and the needs of the patient.
• Collects data from patient and family for R.N. evaluation and development of a teaching plan.
• Teaches family and patients.
• Safely and properly administers medications as ordered by physician.
• Performs treatments as prescribed by physician.
• Uses the nursing care plan in daily assignments, able to review, and, under supervision, modify the plan of care.
• Directs and assists ancillary nursing staff with assigned duties.
• Monitors IVs and blood for proper functioning and reports any untoward side effect to the R.N. immediately.
• Starts IVs prn and as ordered by physician.
• Recognizes patient care priorities, multidisciplinary treatment plans, and potential patient care crises.
• 2. Collects data essential to R.N. Assessment and reports deviations from normal to the R.N.
• Collects assessment data within eight hours of admission, as observed by chart review.
• Assist with reassessing patient according to unit standards and/or hospital policy, as patient needs dictate and reports pertinent changes in patient status to the R.N.
• 3. Maintains patient records and charts to ensure an accurate record of the patient's medical treatment.
• Documents appropriately in all assigned patient records.
• Accurately documents medication administration, treatments, collected data, interventions, and unusual occurrences, as observed by chart review.
• Completes documentation before end of shift, as observed by chart review.
• Demonstrates ability to observe and record the signs, symptoms, and behaviors including the physiological status of patients.
• 4. Performs all other duties as assigned.

Experience Requirements

2 years recent Acute Care experience preferred.

Special Skill, License and Knowledge Requirements

Current Louisiana LPN licensure

HIPAA Requirements

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, medical records related to qua…