Job Information
Fairfield Home Care Licensed Practical Nurse in Lima, Ohio
Job Description:
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Record food and fluid intake and output
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers
Qualifications:
- 1 year of verifiable experience
LPN Certified
Job Schedule: Times vary; will work around patient's needs
Job Type: Full-time and Part-time
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