Job description
Full-time night shift offering a $5,000 sign on bonus!
Improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. That’s just the beginning of the difference you can make when you join our team of LPNs on 4 South at Beaumont Hospital Farmington Hills.
UNIT DESCRIPTION: This 48-bed unit is dedicated to ortho/neuro/trauma. Some specific diagnoses are total knee, total hip, spinal fusions, and fractured hips. We are Stroke and Trauma certified and complete additional education every three months to better care for this population of patients. Our multidisciplinary team includes RN’s, nurse techs, nursing assistants, unit secretaries, PT/OT, orthopedic care coordinator and case managers, Nurse to patient ration is 1:4-6 and Nurse Assistant ratio is 1:8-10.
GENERAL SUMMARY:
Under direct general supervision of the registered nurse and following hospital policy and procedure, provides nursing care to patients. Implements nursing care procedures, and evaluates patient progress. Provides teaching to patients and their families. While actual responsibilities and duties may vary depending upon the clinical area assigned, the following are typical of duties that would be performed, under the direction and supervision of the Registered Nurse.
BENEFITS
Beaumont offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and life-work balance goals.
- NEW On-demand pay program – powered by Payactiv
- Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
- Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products and services
- Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance plans
- Relocation assistance
- Generous retirement savings, disability insurance, identify theft protection and even home and auto insurance
- Free onsite parking at all campuses
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Assists with the assessment of nursing needs of patients and records observations in EPIC (flowsheet, progress notes).
- Renders nursing care (i.e., administering medication, monitoring IVs, performing treatments, etc.) as delegated. Note: May not administer IV medications – including IVP, IVPB routes and may not administer Level 1 Hazardous drugs. May insert IV catheters, hang stock IV solutions without additives and monitor IV insertion sites. May administer subcutaneous and intramuscular injections of medications that are not Level 1 and also including opioids, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, etc.
- Provides for the psycho-social needs of the patient (i.e., anticipating fears, concerns, changes in lifestyle).
- Performs a variety of complex treatments or nursing procedures such as changing dressings, cleansing or irrigating wounds and incisions, performing catheterizations, changing ostomy appliances, providing trach care (including tracheostomy suctioning) and pressure injury prevention care according to policy and following skills validation and demonstration of competency in the procedure.
- Communicates problems to the Registered Nurse as observed providing precise patient documentation in EPIC (flowsheet, nursing progress notes).
- Assists the physician with examination and treatment, prepares the patient and passes instruments, equipment and supplies
- Maintains essential bedside equipment including suction, oxygen, and emergency supplies.
- As a team member, under supervision of the Registered Nurse, serves as a resource for other members of the team (such as NA, NT).
This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.
STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Education / Training:
- Successful completion of a Practical Nursing program from an approved school.
- Work Experience:
- Completion of pharmacology course work (NAPNES or minimum documented 32 hours).
- Certification, Licensure, Registration:
- Active and unrestricted Licensed Practice Nurse license in the State of Michigan. Successful Healthcare Provider course completion.
- Other Qualifications:
- Requires interpersonal skills adequate to explain procedures and calm fears of patients and families, exchange patient information with physicians, nursing staff and other hospital staff. Requires the ability to gather and assess patient information from a variety of sources in a timely manner and provide nursing care accordingly.
Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills
Serving the greater Farmington Hills area since 1965, this hospital has grown in size and capabilities over the decades to become a Level II trauma hospital that serves as the base teaching hospital for Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills has received national recognition from U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s high-performing facilities for multiple procedures and conditions and has been recognized as a Magnet®-designated hospital for nursing excellence.
Beaumont Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.
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