Licensed Practical Nurse, LPN

Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Summary:
The Licensed Practical Nurse performs and documents assessments appropriate to licensure, ensuring health history and admission process is completed. This role identifies discharge planning and education needs, provides patient care, and performs personal cares. The LPN communicates patient progress, adjusts own workload, and assists the registered nurse in identifying patient needs and priorities of care.

Essential Job Functions:

• Assists in identifying patient needs, prioritizing care, and setting goals based on age, ethnic origin, economic status, lifestyle, creed or philosophical beliefs.
• Demonstrates competency in performing department-specific functions according to standards of care, policies, and procedures.
• Functions as a member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to integrated patient-centered care plans.
• Assigns or delegates nursing interventions to others with necessary skills and competence.
• Identifies early warning signs of patient condition changes and reports appropriately.
• Implements nursing interventions and prescribed medical regimens safely and documents care provided accurately and timely.
• Collaborates and communicates patient information with patients/families and other team members for quality and continuity of care.
• Reports patient self-report/symptoms of pain promptly according to standard operating procedure.
• Participates in health education approved by a licensed practitioner.
• Assists in discharge planning, education, and counseling based on identified needs.

Certification:

• Licensed Practical Nurse | Minnesota Board of Nursing | Prior to Start Date
• Basic Life Support (BLS) | American Heart Association | Within 90 days of Start Date

Notes:

• Temporary LPN license accepted prior to start.
• Must hold an unencumbered nursing license prior to start.

Physical Demands:
• Sit: Occasionally (5-33%)
• Stand: Frequently (34-66%)
• Walk: Frequently (34-66%)
• Stoop/Bend: Frequently (34-66%)
• Reach: Frequently (34-66%)
• Crawl: Not Applicable
• Squat/Crouch/Kneel: Occasionally (5-33%)
• Twist: Occasionally (5-33%)
• Handle/Finger/Feel: Continuously (67-100%)
• See: Continuously (67-100%)
• Hear: Continuously (67-100%)
Weight Demands:
• Lift - Floor to Waist Level: Medium (20-40 pounds)
• Carry: Medium (20-40 pounds)
• Push/Pull: Medium (20-40 pounds)
• Slide/Transfer: Medium (20-40 pounds)
Working Conditions:
• Indoor: Continuously (67-100%)
• Outdoor: Not Applicable
• Extreme Temperature: Not Applicable
Driving Requirement Definitions:

• Professional Drivers: Persons who drive as their main responsibility OR transport passengers or hazardous materials.
• Frequent Drivers: Persons whose main responsibility is not driving, but drive daily or almost daily.
• Occasional Drivers: Persons who drive from once per month to as frequently as once per week.
• Infrequent Drivers: Persons who are generally not expected to drive.

Driving Requirement for this position:
Infrequent Driver Reference ID: R4705