LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE
Company: Della Infotech
Location: Spring City
Posted on: October 20, 2024
Job Description:
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires current Pennsylvania License for Practical Nurse or is
eligible to sit for the Practical Nurse Licensure Examination.
- Proficient computer skills to include, but not limited to,
Microsoft Office products.
- Ability to enter health data for residents into electronic
medical records data base. Role Description:
- This is practical nursing work in the care and treatment of
individuals with a mental or physical injury or illness and/or
developmental disability or the care of individuals having
difficulty meeting their daily living activities at a Commonwealth
facility.
- A resource implements nursing care plans by performing a
variety of practical nursing and individual/patient/resident/inmate
care duties including preparing, administering, and recording
medications and treatments prescribed by the physician and
observing and reporting changes in the physical and emotional
behavior of individuals/patients/residents/inmates with a mental or
physical injury or illness and/or developmental disability or
individuals having difficulty meeting their daily living
activities.
- Work also includes taking and recording vital signs, collecting
specimens and preparing and maintaining progress notes and other
administrative reports as required. Work also involves
participation in carrying out the total treatment program to
include habilitation and rehabilitation programs as established by
the interdisciplinary treatment team and include daily living and
leisure time activities.
- Work may also involve charge responsibility for a living or
patient care area, including responsibility for maintenance of
prescribed treatment and therapeutic regimens; overseeing
unlicensed personnel; and requesting professional evaluation,
treatment or emergency care, as needed. Work is performed in
accordance with established laws, rules, and regulations, and
appropriate practical nursing standards and nursing
procedures.
- Supervision may be received from a Licensed Practical Nurse
Supervisor however, by law, nursing duties which require licensure
are performed under the direction of a Registered Nurse or a
Physician who reviews the work in progress, through reports and by
ward or living area inspections and observations. Nurses are
expected to be competent in the following areas at a minimum but
not limited to: airway insertion, first aid, catheter insertion,
AED, administering oxygen,, IV therapy, heparin lock insertion and
irrigation, medication administration, injections, treatments ,
vital signs, nursing protocols, participating in the plan of care,
ambu bag, audiogram testing, medications, telebinocular testing,
universal/standard precautions, catheter care, catheter insertion,
perineal care, documentation of IV therapy, heparin lock insertion,
and irrigation, initation and care of tubing, care of a heparin
well, parenteral management , secondary medications, use of IV
infusion pump, use of manual flow regulator.
Keywords: Della Infotech, Lower Merion , LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, Healthcare , Spring City, Pennsylvania
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