Responsible for contributing to the nursing assessment, patient admissions, participating in the development and modification of the plan of care, participating in the implementation of the plan of care, and contributing to the evaluation of the responses of patients to nursing interventions.
Eligibility
Sign-on bonus
Posted Sep 17
Pay
Not posted
Unit and setting
Dialysis · Hospital
License
LPN license Must be currently licensed as an LPN by the State of Alabama.
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License
LPN licenseMust be currently licensed as an LPN by the State of Alabama.Check your license
Experience
one year experienceMinimum of one year experience, hospital experience strongly preferred.
collecting, reporting, and recording objective and subjective dataContributes to nursing assessment by collecting, reporting, and recording objective and subjective data.
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observing and reporting changes in patient conditionObserves and reports changes in condition of patients and signs and symptoms of deviations from normal health status.
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participating in development and modification of Nursing Care Plan
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documenting involvement of patient and family in medical recordDocuments the involvement of patient/family/significant other in the medical record.
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contributing to identification of nursing interventionsContributes to the identification of appropriate nursing interventions to maintain comfort, support human functions and responses.
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assisting with discharge planningAssists with discharge planning.
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performing assigned nursing proceduresPerforms assigned nursing procedures for the comfort and well being of patients.
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assisting patients with ambulationAssists patients with ambulation.
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assisting physicians and nurses with special proceduresAssists physicians and nurses with special procedures.
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assisting with prescribed exercises, turning, massages, and repositioningAssists with prescribed exercises, turning, massages, backrubs, and repositioning of patients.
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monitoring and recording vital signs, neurological, and neurovascular checksMonitors and records vital signs, neurological and neurovascular checks, identifies and reports abnormalities.
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performing 12 lead EKG and applying cardiac monitoring electrodes
assisting with meals, verifying feeding tube placement, and administering tube feedings
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monitoring oxygen therapy for safety and effectivenessMonitors oxygen therapy for safety and effectiveness.
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assisting with suctioning, intubation, extubation, and peritoneal dialysisAssists with nursing care procedures such as endotracheal or nasopharyngeal suctioning, intubation, extubation, and peritoneal dialysis as appropriate.
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caring for elimination needs including enemas, irrigations, ostomy care, and catheterizationsCares for elimination needs including enemas, irrigations, ostomy care, and urinary catheterizations.
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collecting and labeling specimens
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monitoring and recording intake and outputMonitors and records patient’s fluid balance (intake and output).
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assisting with I.V. therapy, venipunctures, site care, NG tubes, and peripheral fluids
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administering medications and observing for drug reactions
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applying treatments, dressings, or corrective devicesApplies various treatments, dressings, or corrective devices as ordered.
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assuring restraint orders and identifying alternatives to restraint use
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monitoring and recording blood glucose via glucometerMonitors and records blood glucose accurately via glucometer.
Responsible for contributing to the nursing assessment, patient admissions, participating in the development and modification of the plan of care, participating in the implementation of the plan of care, and contributing to the evaluation of the responses of patients to nursing interventions. Under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse, administers nursing care to patients regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, and handicap.
Essential Job Functions
Contributes to nursing assessment by collecting, reporting, and recording objective and subjective data.
Observes and reports changes in condition of patients and signs and symptoms of deviations from normal health status.
Participates in the development and modification of the Nursing Care Plan by providing data. Uses data collected to plan and prioritize work.
Documents the involvement of patient/family/significant other in the medical record.
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Contributes to the identification of appropriate nursing interventions to maintain comfort, support human functions and responses.
Assists with discharge planning.
Performs assigned nursing procedures for the comfort and well being of patients.
Assists patients with ambulation.
Assists physicians and nurses with special procedures.
Assists with prescribed exercises, turning, massages, backrubs, and repositioning of patients.
Monitors and records vital signs, neurological and neurovascular checks, identifies and reports abnormalities.
Performs 12 lead EKG. Applies electrodes to patients requiring cardiac monitoring and documents appropriately.
Interprets cardiac rhythm correctly to include: sinus rhythm, bradycardia, tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular flutter, and ventricular fibrillation.
Prepares patient for meals and assists or feeds patients as needed. Verifies placement of feeding tubes and administers tube feedings.
Monitors oxygen therapy for safety and effectiveness.
Assists with nursing care procedures such as endotracheal or nasopharyngeal suctioning, intubation, extubation, and peritoneal dialysis as appropriate.
Cares for elimination needs including enemas, irrigations, ostomy care, and urinary catheterizations.
Collects and properly labels various types of specimens. Delivers appropriately if necessary.
Monitors and records patient’s fluid balance (intake and output).
Assists with I. V. therapy on hospital policy and Alabama Board of Nursing (ABN) Scope of Practice guidelines. Performs venipunctures. Discontinues I. V. and Heparin lock at peripheral sites. Performs site care and I. V. tubing changes. Maintains nasogastric (NG) tubes per hospital policy and ABN guidelines. Properly labels and hangs peripheral I. V. fluids. Labels all I. V. tubing.
Administers medications in accordance with policies and legal limitations. Documents according to policy and procedure. Observes patients for reactions to drugs and reports as needed.
Applies various treatments, dressings, or corrective devices as ordered.
Assures all restraint orders are properly written and renewed prior to expiration. Assists other staff with identifying alternatives to restraint use and assists with reducing/eliminating restraint use.
Monitors and records blood glucose accurately via glucometer.
Transcribes physicians’ orders onto MAR Kardex. Implements order following review and verification by Registered Nurse.
Documents nursing interventions and responses to care (patient progress, medications, treatments, signs and symptoms, intake and output, vital signs, serial blood sugars, ventilator parameters, and other pertinent observations).
Explains nursing interventions and provides appropriate education (medication, procedures, diagnosis related, equipment, safety, etc.) to patient and/or responsible person, according to their predetermined level of comprehension, and documents on appropriate records.
Performs phlebotomy and collects laboratory specimens according to established standards.
Monitors patient’s skin integrity, reports abnormal findings, and assists with follow-up orders and wound care.
Assesses the patient for pain using a 1-10 pain rating scale or other rating method and intervenes promptly and appropriately for any identified pain.
Performs other duties as assigned.
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Education
Must be currently licensed as an LPN by the State of Alabama.
Experience
Minimum of one year experience, hospital experience strongly preferred.
Sourced from Noland Health Services’ careers page.
Call for help the minute your patient looks off to you, not once you are sure. Needing help is not a mark against you. It puts more eyes on the patient, sooner.
“The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”
— Florence Nightingale
Some shifts end with you crying in your car because it all catches up at once. That is allowed. Just say out loud, to someone you trust, that it was a bad one.
Get certified in whatever you keep gravitating toward. After my wound care certification it was like new glasses: I saw what I had not known to look for.
“Willingly, had they accepted me, I would have worked for the wounded, in return for bread and water.”
— Mary Seacole
When you are unsure and everyone else is slammed, try this: if another nurse walked up and put that exact question to you, what would you tell them to do?
Someone on clinicals may say something that has you wondering if you are cut out for this. Do not take it to heart. A couple of bad days are not the profession.
Three or four years went by before the overwhelmed feeling lifted, and close to six before I felt expert at the bedside. Measure this in years, not months.
Expect the unexpected every shift and at every hour of it. The part you can learn is flexibility: managing a bit of chaos, and finding something in it to enjoy.
“But time has helped to settle the question and a trained nurse’s position now is largely what she herself makes it.”
— Isabel Hampton Robb
Most of what a dying person's family needs is to hear that nothing has gone wrong, that this is what dying looks like, and that they are caring for them well.
There will always be one more patient and one more paper. Your kid is only a toddler once. Do not give the people at home what is left at the end of the week.
“To do what nobody else can do, in a way that nobody else will do, despite all that we go through, that is to be a nurse.”
— Rawsi Williams
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Life in Birmingham, AL
Neighborhoods+Nurses and young professionals cluster close-in: Crestwood’s 1920s–1940s bungalows and mid-century cottages (often mid-$200s to $500k+) sit on tree-lined streets with coffee shops and breweries and easy reach to Avondale and downtown. Homewood (Jan 2026 median about $400k; listings often $400k–$900k) mixes cottages, brick ranches, and new builds around walkable Edgewood and Soho villages just outside downtown. Urban options include Avondale, Lakeview, Five Points South, Highland Park, Southside, Forest Park, and downtown condos (watch HOA/assessments). Space-for-drive suburbs include Hoover, Vestavia Hills (median about $562k), Trussville, Irondale, Pelham (about $272k), Gardendale (about $265k), Helena, and Chelsea/Greystone/Westover on Highway 280 (Chelsea about $342k). Older close-in stock in Norwood, Woodlawn, and North Birmingham can hide renovation costs.
Nurses and young professionals cluster close-in: Crestwood’s 1920s–1940s bungalows and mid-century cottages (often mid-$200s to $500k+) sit on tree-lined streets with coffee shops and breweries and easy reach to Avondale and downtown. Homewood (Jan 2026 median about $400k; listings often $400k–$900k) mixes cottages, brick ranches, and new builds around walkable Edgewood and Soho villages just outside downtown.
Urban options include Avondale, Lakeview, Five Points South, Highland Park, Southside, Forest Park, and downtown condos (watch HOA/assessments). Space-for-drive suburbs include Hoover, Vestavia Hills (median about $562k), Trussville, Irondale, Pelham (about $272k), Gardendale (about $265k), Helena, and Chelsea/Greystone/Westover on Highway 280 (Chelsea about $342k).
Older close-in stock in Norwood, Woodlawn, and North Birmingham can hide renovation costs.
Getting around+The metro covers about 5,200 square miles and 1.19 million people, so it is not a 15-minute city. Highway 280 is the choke point for Chelsea, Greystone, and Westover; I-65 construction squeezes South Shelby (Alabaster, Calera, Columbiana, Montevallo); far-north Gardendale, Hayden, Warrior, and Mount Olive trade cheaper houses for longer drives. Relocators aiming at UAB, downtown, or Southside should treat 280, I-65, and I-459 interchanges as the real map. Downtown parking is widely called painful; public transit exists but daily life is car-and-corridor.
The metro covers about 5,200 square miles and 1.19 million people, so it is not a 15-minute city. Highway 280 is the choke point for Chelsea, Greystone, and Westover; I-65 construction squeezes South Shelby (Alabaster, Calera, Columbiana, Montevallo); far-north Gardendale, Hayden, Warrior, and Mount Olive trade cheaper houses for longer drives.
Relocators aiming at UAB, downtown, or Southside should treat 280, I-65, and I-459 interchanges as the real map. Downtown parking is widely called painful; public transit exists but daily life is car-and-corridor.
Outdoors+Mornings often start on the 67 free acres of Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Vulcan Park, Kelly Ingram Park, and access to hiking, lakes, and trails are the named outdoor staples; residents also use neighborhood parks in Homewood and the wider metro’s green space. Mild weather most of the year makes walking the Civil Rights District and garden loops practical. Outdoor life is a consistent plus even from the suburbs, though the sprawl means you drive to many trailheads and lakes.
Mornings often start on the 67 free acres of Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Vulcan Park, Kelly Ingram Park, and access to hiking, lakes, and trails are the named outdoor staples; residents also use neighborhood parks in Homewood and the wider metro’s green space.
Mild weather most of the year makes walking the Civil Rights District and garden loops practical. Outdoor life is a consistent plus even from the suburbs, though the sprawl means you drive to many trailheads and lakes.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Birmingham
Birmingham, nicknamed the Magic City, sprawls across more than 5,200 square miles and 1.19 million people, so a nurse’s quality of life hinges on corridor more than zip code. UAB and a dense hospital network make healthcare the economic core; Crestwood bungalows, Homewood’s Edgewood and Soho villages, Avondale, Five Points South, and Highland Park put younger professionals near work and food, while Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Trussville, and Irondale trade minutes for yards and schools. Highway 280, I-65 construction, and I-459 interchanges punish far-south Chelsea or far-north Gardendale commutes that look short on a map. Housing still undercuts bigger Southern metros: Pelham and Gardendale medians in the mid-$200ks, Homewood around $400k, Vestavia Hills about $562k, Mountain Brook into the millions, with downtown condo HOAs as a hidden cost. Daily life includes Saw’s pork and Alabama white sauce, Bottega, Pepper Place, seven James Beard kitchens, 67 acres of Botanical Gardens, Vulcan Park, and the Civil Rights District’s BCRI, 16th Street Baptist Church, and Kelly Ingram Park. Summers run near 90°F and humid; winters average about 54°F with roughly 1.6 inches of snow. Crime, parking, Sunday closures, and humidity are the cons locals actually name.
