Wheeling Hospital - Wheeling, WV
posted 4 days ago
Full-time
Wheeling, WV
Hospitals
About the position
The LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) position at Wheeling Hospital involves providing nursing support to physicians and delivering direct nursing care to patients in an inpatient setting. The role is essential for promoting patient comfort and aiding in their return to functional health, while also collaborating with other healthcare professionals.
Responsibilities
- Provides direct patient care as outlined in the patient's plan of care and/or as directed by the overseeing role.
- Performs designated therapeutic procedures to assigned patients as needed.
- Accurately observes, records, and reports all patient concerns, symptoms, reactions, and progress in a timely manner.
- Assists physicians and the overseeing role with examinations and procedures, as assigned.
- Contributes to the nursing assessment by collecting, reporting, and recording objective and subjective data.
- Observes the condition or change in condition of the patient, records signs and symptoms of deviation from normal health status, and reports findings to the overseeing role.
- Participates in the development of the patient's plan of care by providing data and assisting in the identification of measures to maintain comfort and support human functions and responses.
- Assists in assigned patient and family education and rehabilitation by reviewing patient needs with the overseeing role and following the teaching plan.
- Documents nursing interventions and responses to care, communicating to appropriate members of the health care team.
- Accurately and safely administers medications as assigned.
Requirements
- Current unencumbered licensure with the WV Board of Practical Nursing or appropriate state board as a practical nurse OR current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
- Obtain certification in Basic Life Support within 30 days of hire date.
- West Virginia state criminal background check, and federal, if applicable, required for DHHR regulated area.
Nice-to-haves
- One (1) year clinical experience.
