Description

UPMC Horizon- Shenango Valley is looking for a Full Time Licensed Practical Nurse to join the Labor and Delivery Team!

Purpose:
Under direction of a registered nurse, provide routine patient care.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with deliveries:  delivery table set up and break down and removal (once count is complete).
• Assist with maintaining environment, emptying trash in patient rooms and nurse's station, emptying linen in patient rooms/nursery once 1/2  full.
• Assist with patient care:  i.e., toileting, pericare, linen changes and oral care.
• Assisting provider with instrumentation, retracting, etc.
• Assuring adequate supplies are ordered, stacked and sorted appropriately.
• Escort/transfer patients to and from testing, unit to unit and discharge.
• Follow mandatory reporting procedures for any incident or serious even that did affect or potentially could have affected the clinical care of any patient.
• Immediate assistance to patient with delivery:  pericare, ice pack, clean gown, general area cleanup.
• Maintain a safe environment by working with the registered nurse to count sponges, instruments and needles.
• Maintains accurate communication with staff, physicians, patients and visitors.
• Once competence obtained in adult & neonatal Phlebotomy, ability to obtain specimens and label at bedside.
• Once competence obtained may assist with bathing and feed of newborns.
• Participate in regular department and hospital in-service education programs.
• Perform the technical aspect in the care of a patient to maintain surgical asepsis.
• Assure equipment malfunctions are reported to the appropriate department.
• Establish appropriate and effective communication strategies. Establish professional and respectful interpersonal relationships.
• Participate in health care conferences.
• Contribute to the universal unit activities including, but not limited to, responding to call lights and telephones, passing meal trays and transporting patients.
• Assist the RN and interdisciplinary team in evaluating, planning, and implementing plans of care.
• Provide appropriate, direct patient care. Give injections, take vital signs, perform basic diagnostic tests, observe patients, dress wounds and administer medication.
• Comply with established medication use policies.
• Observe and record patient's symptoms, condition, and/or reactions to medications and treatments and report results to the RN in charge.
• Communicate effectively with patients and families about hospital stay and home care concerns.
•  Discuss any patient or family concerns with RN in charge so that issue can be appropriately addressed.
• Perform assigned work in a timely and productive manner.
• Strictly adhere to all policies and practices relative to patient care and hospital-related information.
• Comply with safety policies and procedures including standard precautions.
• Maintain current CPR certification at Health Care Provider level.
• Constructively receive feedback and direction.
• Identify and communicate learning needs to the unit director.
• Take action to improve knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback or on self-identified developmental needs.
• Participate in self-review as requested by unit director. 
• Suggest and support changes within the department. Assume responsibility for assignment and view problems as challenges.
• Demonstrate awareness of behavior on the efficient functioning of the department.

Qualifications

Completion of a Practical Nursing Program approved by the State Board of Nursing. Excellent communication skills necessary to effectively interact with patients, family members, visitors and staff members. Basic computer skills necessary to input patient care orders and medical record documentation.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
Assure equipment malfunctions are reported to the appropriate department. Establish appropriate and effective communication strategies. Establish professional and respectful interpersonal relationships. Participate in health care conferences. Contribute to the universal unit activities including, but not limited to, responding to call lights and telephones, passing meal trays and transporting patients.
 

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)


• UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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