Licensed Practical Nurse Home Health - Las Vegas, United States - Intermountain Health

Description

R98985
locations
Central Office - Las Vegas
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted 6 Days Ago
job requisition id
R98985

Job Description:

The LPN, under the direction of a registered nurse, licensed physician, or other specified health care professional, participates in patient care commensurate to Scope of Practice.

Unit Information:

What does it mean to be a part of our Homecare & Hospice team?

Home is where families gather, where special occasions are celebrated, and where memories are made. Most of all, home is where you feel comfortable, relax, reflect, and heal. Intermountain Homecare & Hospice is privileged to be the caring hands of Intermountain Healthcare in the home bringing quality, compassion, skill, and excellence. Homecare allows patients to be at home, where they want to be, through their health journey. This exciting work allows you to develop your clinical skills while experiencing this unique and highly rewarding care environment.

Enhance your career by learning unique skills such as wound care, injection and medication administration, IV monitoring, and patient/caregiver education.

Posting Specifics:

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Shift Details: Full time, 40 hours - Sunday through Saturday availability. Both weekday and weekend shifts possible (differentials available for certain shifts). Schedule details discussed in interview.

Additional Shift Details:

Location: Las Vegas Valley

Benefits:

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. Learn more about our comprehensive benefits

package and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Minimum Qualifications

Current LPN License in state of practices.
Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
LPNs hired into hospital departments that do not include a long-term care or behavioral health setting must be enrolled and complete their RN within 4 years.
Approved IV Certification (as required by facility).
Clean driving record (as required by facility).
Ability to link-up to the company on-line database twice a day (as required by facility).

Job Essentials
Patient Care:

May assist in the admission and check-in process by orienting patient or significant other to patient care setting (e.g., routines, patient care, patient rights).
Assists with the completion of needed forms.
Assists in the collection, reporting, and documentation of appropriate assessment data. This may include taking and recording vital signs, height and weight, current medication information, and billing information.
Identifies patient pain or discomfort and reports and responds appropriately.
Assists patients with Activities of Daily Living.
Prepares patient for medical or surgical medical interventions.
Completes interventions within Scope of Practice.
Assists physician or licensed independent practitioner with treatments or procedures.
Obtains and tracks specimens for laboratory analysis (e.g., venipunctures, stool, urine).
Prepares, administers, and manages medication (oral, IM, SQ, rectal, intradermal).
Assists with stocking and coordinating supplies as needed.

Documentation:

Appropriately documents assessment data, interventions, physician and independent practitioner orders (verbal or phone that fall within the LPN's Scope of Practice and must be signed by an RN), update of care plan, update changes to discharge planning, medication administration, and patient and family education.

Communication:

Appropriately communicates with supervisory RN, physician, or licensed independent practitioner regarding assessment findings, changes in patient condition, patient history data, implementation or changes to plan of care or discharge plan, and physician or independent practitioner orders (verbal or phone).
Participates in patient education.

Professionalism:

Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice including compliance with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate and timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.
Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own practice.
Participates in quality improvement projects and initiatives.
May act as a lead, mentor, or trainer to other staff.

Physical Requirements:

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
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Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
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Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
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Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
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Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).
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May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

Anticipated job posting close date:

05/14/2024

Location:

Central Office - Las Vegas

Work City:

Las Vegas

Work State:

Nevada

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$ $38.71

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers, and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

As the largest nonprofit health system in the Mountain West, Intermountain Health is dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping our patients and caregivers thrive.

It's time to think of health in a whole new way, and by partnering with our patients and communities, providing expert care closer to home, and making great health more affordable, we can help more people get and stay well. We proudly invest back into improving the care we deliver, and our pioneering research is making healthcare more personalized, effective, and affordable.

Serving patients and communities throughout the Mountain West, primarily in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming, Intermountain includes 33 hospitals, 300+ clinics, a medical group, affiliate networks, homecare, telehealth, health insurance plans, and other services - along with wholly owned subsidiaries including Select Health, Castell, Tellica Imaging, and Classic Air Medical.

Our Caregiver Promise: Together, for the healthiest lives

We celebrate the different perspectives, background, experiences, and identities our caregivers bring to their work every day at Intermountain Health. Across all areas of our integrated health system, we proudly share best practices, knowledge, and techniques to better serve our patients, communities, and each other.

Here, you'll work alongside collaborative and curious minds who will support you, encourage you, inspire you, advocate for you, and challenge you to be your very best.

Our Values

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us.

Our action-oriented values, inspired and shaped by our own caregivers, speak to what it means to be part of Intermountain.

• We are leaders in clinical excellence, delivering safe, best-in-quality care
• We believe in what we do, living our mission every day
• We serve with empathy, caring for each caregiver, patient, and member with compassion and respect
• We are partners in health, collaborating to keep people well
• We do the right thing, learning and acting with purpose
• We are better together, building community through teamwork and belonging