Licensed Practical Nurse
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
LPN
Posted Sep 4
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Role
- Term
- Permanent
- Accepts
- LPN
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Work Shift
Day
Work Day(s)
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Friday, Thursday, Wednesday
Shift Start Time
7:30 AM
Shift End Time
4:00 PM
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Children’s is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals. No matter the role, every member of our team is an essential part of our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow. We’re committed to putting you first, and that commitment is at the heart of our company culture: People first. Children always. Find your next career opportunity and make a difference doing what you love at Children’s.
Job Description
Under the supervision of a provider or registered nurse, participates in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care. Performs nursing process while providing direct patient care in a safe and effective manner that promotes quality patient outcomes. Functions as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. If working in non-provider based, physician practice sites, utilizing the medical model of care delivery, patient assessments, plan of care, and discharge plan are performed by a physician, nurse practitioner (NP), or physician assistant (PA). Under this model, the LPN assists the provider in providing prescribed care or treatment to the patient.
Experience
No minimum experience required
Preferred Qualifications
1 year of patient care experience preferred
Education
High school diploma or equivalent Completion of an accredited Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) school/program
Certification Summary
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of employment PALS or PEARS Certification within one year of hire date, as required by department specification
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
No minimally required knowledge, skills, or abilities
Job Responsibilities
Practice (Caring for the Patient)
Assists licensed professional personal in performing nursing process across the continuum to deliver age and developmentally appropriate patient-family-centered care. Integrates values and language preferences into healthcare delivery through a culturally sensitive process. Utilizes clinical decision support tools and resources to recognize issues and prioritize care Utilizes appropriate documentation tools to record, measure, and retrieve healthcare data. Provides patient and family education appropriate for identified learning needs. Utilizes resources to plan and provide nursing care that is safe, effective, and financially responsible.
Physician Practice Specifics
Communicates with home health agencies, third-party payor, and other community resources as needed to coordinate needs. Facilitates and provides ongoing communication with patient/family, interdisciplinary staff and third parties (home health, third party payers, pharmacies, and other resources) to identify and resolve potential barriers. Performs outpatient and clinic care coordination and monitors patients' care between clinic and home. Facilitates care via telehealth to assist with patient needs and concerns Participates in providing discharge instructions as delegated by licensed professional practitioners.
Development (Fostering Clinical Knowledge)
Participates in lifelong learning to maintain knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice. Incorporates new knowledge into nursing practice to support desired outcomes. Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competence and learning. Self-evaluates professional practice in relation to performance, development, resiliency, and goals. Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance review, resulting in change in practice and role performance.
Engagement (Engaging and Leading Professionally)
Provides oversight for nursing care given by unlicensed personnel while retaining accountability for patient care quality. Engages in ethical practices utilizing principles from The Code of Ethics for Nurses. Maintains therapeutic and professional relationships with appropriate role boundaries.
Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment. Consults, contributes to, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary healthcare team members. Demonstrates investment in others through teaching/coaching/helper roles.
Demonstrates support of shared leadership through awareness of initiatives and providing input. Drives and effectively facilitates timely admission, transfer, and discharge process for unit, ensuring efficient and safe patient flow.
Outcomes (Driving Excellent Results)
Participates in monitoring activities within work environment to maintain a culture of safety. Identifies and communicates hazards and errors. Participates in quality and process improvement activities to improve patient outcome and workflows. Ensures equipment is in working order to provide safe patient care. Demonstrates commitment and flexibility through times of change.
Professional Mandatory Requirements
Completes orientation and initial assessment of competency successfully by determined due date. Completes mandatory education and annual competency assessment requirements as defined by unit and system by due date. Achieves 75% attendance at staff meetings if applicable.
Special Note: The LPN may not perform the following tasks
Documentation of the initial inpatient admission assessment. Initiation of Caregiver Protocols, with the exception of influenza vaccine protocols. Initiation of the administration of blood products, unsupervised. Initiate chemotherapy infusions or administer IV push chemotherapy. Complete the initial assessment for restraints. Unsupervised administration of code resuscitation drugs by IV push.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.
Primary Location Address
2174 North Druid Hills Rd NE
Job Family
Nursing-Bedside
Sourced from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta’s careers page.
Requirements
- Preferred Qualifications: 1 year of patient care experience preferred
- Preferred Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent
- Preferred Qualifications: Completion of an accredited Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) school/program
- Preferred Qualifications: Certification Summary
- Preferred Qualifications: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- Preferred Qualifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of employment
- Preferred Qualifications: PALS or PEARS Certification within one year of hire date, as required by department specification
- Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Preferred Qualifications: No minimally required knowledge, skills, or abilities
- Preferred Qualifications: Job Responsibilities
- Preferred Qualifications: Practice (Caring for the Patient)
- Preferred Qualifications: Assists licensed professional personal in performing nursing process across the continuum to deliver age and developmentally appropriate patient-family-centered care.
- Preferred Qualifications: Integrates values and language preferences into healthcare delivery through a culturally sensitive process.
- Preferred Qualifications: Utilizes clinical decision support tools and resources to recognize issues and prioritize care
- Preferred Qualifications: Utilizes appropriate documentation tools to record, measure, and retrieve healthcare data.
- Preferred Qualifications: Provides patient and family education appropriate for identified learning needs.
- Preferred Qualifications: Utilizes resources to plan and provide nursing care that is safe, effective, and financially responsible.
- Preferred Qualifications: Physician Practice Specifics
- Preferred Qualifications: Communicates with home health agencies, third-party payor, and other community resources as needed to coordinate needs.
- Preferred Qualifications: Facilitates and provides ongoing communication with patient/family, interdisciplinary staff and third parties (home health, third party payers, pharmacies, and other resources) to identify and resolve potential barriers.
- Preferred Qualifications: Performs outpatient and clinic care coordination and monitors patients' care between clinic and home.
- Preferred Qualifications: Facilitates care via telehealth to assist with patient needs and concerns
- Preferred Qualifications: Participates in providing discharge instructions as delegated by licensed professional practitioners.
- Preferred Qualifications: Development (Fostering Clinical Knowledge)
- Preferred Qualifications: Participates in lifelong learning to maintain knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice.
- Preferred Qualifications: Incorporates new knowledge into nursing practice to support desired outcomes.
- Preferred Qualifications: Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competence and learning.
- Preferred Qualifications: Self-evaluates professional practice in relation to performance, development, resiliency, and goals.
- Preferred Qualifications: Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance review, resulting in change in practice and role performance.
- Preferred Qualifications: Engagement (Engaging and Leading Professionally)
- Preferred Qualifications: Provides oversight for nursing care given by unlicensed personnel while retaining accountability for patient care quality.
- Preferred Qualifications: Engages in ethical practices utilizing principles from The Code of Ethics for Nurses.
- Preferred Qualifications: Maintains therapeutic and professional relationships with appropriate role boundaries.
- Preferred Qualifications: Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
- Preferred Qualifications: Consults, contributes to, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary healthcare team members.
- Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrates investment in others through teaching/coaching/helper roles.
- Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrates support of shared leadership through awareness of initiatives and providing input.
- Preferred Qualifications: Drives and effectively facilitates timely admission, transfer, and discharge process for unit, ensuring efficient and safe patient flow.
- Preferred Qualifications: Outcomes (Driving Excellent Results)
- Preferred Qualifications: Participates in monitoring activities within work environment to maintain a culture of safety.
- Preferred Qualifications: Identifies and communicates hazards and errors.
- Preferred Qualifications: Participates in quality and process improvement activities to improve patient outcome and workflows.
- Preferred Qualifications: Ensures equipment is in working order to provide safe patient care.
- Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrates commitment and flexibility through times of change.
- Preferred Qualifications: Professional Mandatory Requirements
- Preferred Qualifications: Completes orientation and initial assessment of competency successfully by determined due date.
- Preferred Qualifications: Completes mandatory education and annual competency assessment requirements as defined by unit and system by due date.
- Preferred Qualifications: Achieves 75% attendance at staff meetings if applicable.
Place
- City
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Median rent
- $1,711/mo
- Local household income
- $85,652/yr
- Metro price level
- about the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Atlanta area index 100.1, where 100 is the national average.
Atlanta blends Southern hospitality with big-city energy, offering nurses a dynamic place to land. From the tree-lined streets of Buckhead to the vibrant pulse of Midtown, Georgia's capital delivers major hospital networks, diverse cuisine, and professional sports. Mild winters and a booming healthcare sector make it a compelling relocation choice.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities.
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) is one of the leading pediatric healthcare systems in the United States, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1998, the organization operates with approximately 7,900 employees across multiple campuses. CHOA is dedicated exclusively to pediatric…
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