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Location: OU Medical Center 6E
Shift: FT Days or FT Nights
In our Medicine Specialty Unit, you have the opportunity to gain a higher level of nursing in the same unit with the same team and same leadership by working with both Step Down and Medical beds. The Medicine Specialty Unit is a part of the largest service line within the hospital system. This unit is looking for motivated, compassionate, and disciplined nurses who crave a stimulating, learning experience, and work well with a team. The Medicine Specialty unit works with complex and varied patients with multifaceted disease processes.
General Description: The License Practice Nurse (LPN) performs assigned direct and indirect nursing care activities in a hospital using critical thinking in clinical problem-solving and decision-making processes relative to scope of practice, knowledge, competency, and experience. The LPN practices under the direct supervision of a registered nurse (RN), advance practice registered nurse (APRN), dentist, or physician in accordance with the Oklahoma Board of Nursing.
Essential Responsibilities:
Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.
* Participates in focused assessment/reassessments of patient(s) by observing, collecting, recording and reporting objective and subjective data in an accurate and timely manner. Reports the condition and/or change in condition of the patient(s) as well as signs and symptoms that deviate from normal health status.
* Assists in implementing the nursing plan of care within the concepts of the LPN curriculum with consideration for safety in practice; according to established prioritization of needs; documenting and communicating nursing interventions and responses of patient(s) to care.
* Assists in evaluating patient(s) responses; document and communicate evaluation data to appropriate health care team members; contributes to the modification of the nursing plan of care on the based on ongoing evaluation of the patient(s).
* Collaborates with team members by sharing relevant information; demonstrating initiative, and supporting team decisions and the work life of the department.
* Provides care consistent with the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements as well as the assigned clinical area's Standards of Care and Professional Performance.
* Assists in the supervision of unlicensed assistive personnel.
* Support academic mission of OU Health.
* Performs other related duties as assigned within scope of practice after demonstrating required competencies or completing requisite training.
General Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
* LPN Degree from an Accredited Institution.
* Current Oklahoma Board of Nursing LPN License or a current multi-state compact LPN License (eNLC).
* Specific care environment certifications must be obtained within six months of hire.
Experience:
* New Grads are welcomed.
* One or more years of experience preferred.
License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required: Current LPN License issued by the Oklahoma State Board of Nursing, or a current multistate compact LPN License (eNLC). Current Basic Life Support issued by the American Heart Association required upon hire.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
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