LPN Medical Floor

Overview:

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home. 

Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregons scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you’ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are “Wow that’s expensive.” Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.

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Responsibilities:

Shift: Nights

Job Summary:

Responsible, under the direction or delegation of a Registered Nurse as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, to provide quality practical nursing care consistent with the scope of licensed practice and the standards of care. Employee will perform practical nursing care tasks, carry out routine aspects of the designated nursing regimen, participate in patient care planning, assist with and/or perform therapeutic and diagnostic procedures, report/document observations of patients, and assist in maintaining an optimum physical and emotional environment for assigned patients.

Essential Duties:

• Observes, collects, and records data related to patient’s biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, and self-care ability, as well as educational and discharge planning needs.

• Follows an age appropriate plan of care in conjunction with the physician, patient, patient’s family and/or significant other, and other members of the interdisciplinary health care team.

• Documents and utilizes patient data to assist in measuring progress toward attainment of patient outcomes and patient goals.

• Effectively manages and utilizes sophisticated equipment associated with the floor.

• Involves patient and significant other in education and decision making process related to patient’s care.

• Identifies the learning needs of the patient and/or significant other and initiates measures to meet those needs within the patient’s assessed learning abilities.

• Reiterate and reinforce education, originally given by a physician or RN regarding medications, pre & post-surgical information and discharge needs.

• Administer those medications for which they have the needed knowledge, skills, and demonstrated competency to proceed safely. If a comprehensive assessment of the client condition is needed before medication administration, the RN or licensed independent practitioner must complete the assessment and direct the involvement of the LPN.

• Provides for and follows precautions to ensure patient safety related to fall prevention.

• Ensures that equipment is available, in proper place and maintained in working condition.

Qualifications:

License/Certifications:

• Current license as an LPN issued by the State of Oregon required.

• Must have current

  American Heart Association BLS for Health Care Providers

  within 30 days of hire.

Experience:

• Must have communication and interpersonal skills in relating to public and peers.