LPN needed - Extended Care Home Health

Job description

Position Summary: Care for ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled persons in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required. Essential Functions: - Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts. - Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. - Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations. - Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. - Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them. - Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration. - Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions. - Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients, and pe...