LPN - Little Rock Family Practice - West
Little Rock, Arkansas
The Licensed Practical Nurse will care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities within the clinic of hospital.
- Pay
- Not posted
- Unit and setting
- Clinical · Clinic The Licensed Practical Nurse will care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities within the clinic of hospital.ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities
- License
- LPN license Current Arkansas state licensure required.Current Arkansas state licensure
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- Current Arkansas state licensure Current Arkansas state licensure required. Check your license
- Education
- Postsecondary certificate from vocational school or associate degree in nursing Postsecondary certificate from vocational school or associate degree in nursing required.
- Also asks
- General knowledge of nursing and health care terminology General knowledge of nursing and health care terminology.
- Also asks
- Excellent patient care skills Excellent patient care skills.
Preferred
- Experience
- Prior clinical experience Prior clinical experience preferred
Pay isn’t listed.
The role and schedule
- Day to day
- Administer medications or start IV fluids and document times and amounts Administers medications or starts intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients’ charts.
- Day to day
- Observe patients, chart, and report changes in condition and adverse reactions Observes patients, charting, and reporting changes in conditions such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment and takes necessary actions.
- Day to day
- Answer patient calls and determine how to assist them Answers patients calls and determines how to assist them.
- Day to day
- Measure and record vital signs Measures and records patients’ vital signs such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
- Day to day
- Provide basic patient care and treatments
- Day to day
- Work with healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan care, and implement interventions Works as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plans and modifies care, and implements interventions.
- Day to day
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes with healthcare team Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members.
- Day to day
- Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen supplies Assembles and uses equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Day to day
- Record food and fluid intake and output Records food and fluid intake and output.
- Details
- Able to lift up to 75 pounds at times Must be able to lift up to 75 pounds at times.
- Details
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Details
- May require prolonged periods of standing, moving, and bending May require prolonged periods of standing, moving, and bending.
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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- Position: Licensed Practical Nurse
- Department: Clinical
- FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
- Reports To: Clinic Manager
Job summary
The Licensed Practical Nurse will care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities within the clinic of hospital. He or she may work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse or Physician.
Supervisory
Responsibilities
None
Safety Sensitive Role
Yes
Duties/
Responsibilities
Administers medications or starts intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients’ charts. Observes patients, charting, and reporting changes in conditions such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment and takes necessary actions. Answers patients calls and determines how to assist them.
Measures and records patients’ vital signs such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration. Provides basic patient care or treatments such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations. Works as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plans and modifies care, and implements interventions.
Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members. Assembles and uses equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers. Records food and fluid intake and output.
Required Skills/Abilities
General knowledge of nursing and health care terminology. Excellent patient care skills.
Education and Experience
Postsecondary certificate from vocational school or associate degree in nursing required. Current Arkansas state licensure required. Prior clinical experience preferred
Physical
Requirements
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. May require prolonged periods of standing, moving, and bending. Must be able to lift up to 75 pounds at times.
Disclaimers
This job description reflects EngageMED’s assignment of essential functions, it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Critical features of this job are listed above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
What's around it?
Little Rock, ARFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 11% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,106/mo
- Household income
- $63,003/yr, all local households, not nurse pay