Job Description
Licensed Practical Nurse
Care for post-operative patients in the hospital setting. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Louisiana PN Licensing required. This position will work 12 hour shifts.
Essential Functions
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Apply compresses and ice bags.
- Assemble and use equipment such as catheters and oxygen suppliers.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health-care team members as necessary.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, moving in bed, and standing and walking.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pul...