LPN (LJ)

Job description

Job Description Performs various aspects of patient care within assigned patient care unit under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. Job Responsibility: *ADA Essential Functions - * Administers general nursing care to ambulatory patients in an assigned area under the direct supervision of the Registered Nurse. - Participates with the Primary Nurse and Nursing Care Coordinator in planning and coordinating patient care. - Follows the direction and guidance of the Primary Nurse in implementing the nursing process. - Reports and records results of nursing care and makes all significant information known immediately to Primary Nurse and/or Nursing Care Coordinator. - Performs treatments and procedures as assigned by a Registered Nurse. - * Establishes good interpersonal relations with patients, families, and hospital personnel. - * Must have knowledge of usual dosages, side effects, and reactions to medications patients are receiving, and is able to administer oral, subcutaneous, and intramuscular medications, except for experimental drugs. - * May administer narcotics orally or intramuscularly except on pediatrics, newborn nursery, and premature nursery. - Performs related duties...