Healthcare Professional for Altru Health

Job Overview

Altru Health seeks a skilled Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join our team. This role involves performing and documenting patient assessments, ensuring health history is completed, and providing patient care.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in identifying patient needs, priorities of care, and goals based on age, ethnic origin, economic status, lifestyle, creed, or philosophical beliefs.
• Evaluate the plan of care by gathering, observing, recording, and communicating patient responses to nursing interventions.
• Demonstrate competency and ability to carry out department-specific functions according to standards of care, policies, and procedures.
• Function as a member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to an integrated patient-centered care plan.
• Assign or delegate nursing interventions to other personnel with necessary skills and competence.
• Identify early warning signs of a change in patient condition and report appropriately.
• Implement nursing interventions and prescribed medical regimens in a timely and safe manner, documenting care provided accurately and timely.
• Collaborate and communicate relevant patient information with patients, families, and multidisciplinary team members to ensure quality and continuity of care.

Certifications and Requirements

• Licensed Practical Nurse certification from the Minnesota Board of Nursing prior to start date.
• Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association within 90 days of start date.

Work Environment

This role requires occasional sitting, frequent standing, walking, stooping/bending, reaching, and handling/finger/feel. The job demands medium weight lifting, carrying, pushing/pulling, and sliding/transfer. Work will be conducted primarily indoors with no outdoor or extreme temperature requirements.