Licensed Practical Nurse - Bridge Med/Surg - Night

Duties and Responsibilities Essential Accountabilities:

1. Under appropriate supervision, administers and controls narcotics and medications.
2. Provides general nursing care and personal care assistance to patients, including bathing, dressing, eating, changing bed linens and bed pans and positioning.
3. Maintains a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with hospital standards.
4. Helps patients get into and out of chairs, lifts patients, raises patients in beds, and turns the patients.
5. Checks patient's vital signs.
6. Charts results of various tests.
7. Monitors medical condition of patients and reports changes to appropriate personnel.
8. Prepares patients for scheduled procedures to assist in patient assessment.
9. Assists physicians with examinations, procedures and other processes related to direct patient care.
10. Arranges for patients' ordered diagnostic and therapeutic services.
11. Provides health care instruction/education to patient and family members.
12. Ensures accurate maintenance of patients' medical records and that patient records are treated as confidential information.
13. Performs a variety of nursing administrative duties.
14. Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and proper functioning of equipment.