Travel LPN / LVN - $1,749 per week

Company: Mount Sinai Health System - 55 E 34th St
Location: New York
Posted on: November 20, 2024

Job Description:

• Job Details
• The practice of nursing as a Licensed Practical Nurse is defined as performing tasks responsibilities within the scope of supportive & restorative care; medication administration and specialized tasks under the direction of a Registered Professional Nurse of licensed or otherwise legally authorized physician or dentist.
  • Additional Details
  • Delivers nursing care in structured & routine situations free of scientific complexity.
  • Assistance with activities of daily living.
  • Administration of treatments and routine tasks such as suctioning and urinary catheterizations.
  • Preparation of patient for surgery, diagnostic tests, treatments, examinations.
  • Administration of medications within scope of practice. Collects, labels and processes specimens accurately.
  • Identification and set up of intravenous equipment and delivery of solutions for infusion through peripheral access devices.
  • Administer blood or blood products, with special training.
  • Reports pertinent observations, treatments, medications, incidents & accidents associated with patients, to the Registered Professional Nurse & records same on appropriate documents with the format of charting utilized in the unit.
  • Recognizes the unit based model for delivery of nursing care & assumes responsibility for assignments delegated by the Registered Professional Nurse such as: Contributes to nursing care plan in collaboration with other members of nursing staff.
  • Reinforces the patient/family teaching process identified by the RN.
  • Provides emotional support to patients & their families/significant others.
  • Assists with the rehabilitation of patients according to the nursing care plan.
  • Provides for the physical comfort & safety of the patient.
  • Contributes to patient care conferences.
  • Assists in Emergency Resuscitative Procedures by initiating a Team 7000 call, performing resuscitative procedures such as BCLS & carrying out other activities as directed by the team. Documents nursing care delivered on appropriate forms within the medical record.

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