LPN -Telemetry Cardiac PRN
Company: Baton Rouge General Medical Center
Location: Baton Rouge
Posted on: January 24, 2023
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Job Description:
JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: Administers nursing care to designated
patients under the direction/supervision of a Registered Nurse.
Performs a variety of direct and indirect patient care duties in
accordance with the needs for the age population served, as defined
in the department's scope of service.
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values - Employee demonstrates
Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their
job.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
* Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and
their families, physicians, and the community.
* Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and
vital signs.
* Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the
customer asks.
* Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
* Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of
customers through personal action and attention to the environment
of care.
* Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and
anticipates information needs of customers.
CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance - Employee demonstrates commitment
to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and the
GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
* Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal
requirements of the position and department.
* Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational
records.
* Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials;
communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and
nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.
CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement - Employee demonstrates initiative
in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
* Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments.
Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even
when workload and demands are high.
* Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity,
and fairness.
* Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.
CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement - Employee actively
participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates
quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
* Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence
in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
* Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work
processes.
* Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work
processes.
* Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality
initiatives.
CRITERIA E: Cost Management - Employee demonstrates effective cost
management practices.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
* Effectively manages time and resources
* Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of
the organization - material, human, and financial.
* Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.
CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety - Employee actively
participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee
safety practices.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
* Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and
emphasizes patient and employee safety.
* Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries
or potential injuries.
* Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee
safety standards at all times.
* Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques,
equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and
plans.
JOB FUNCTIONS
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to:
1. Collects data essential to R.N. Assessment and reports
deviations from normal to the R.N.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
* Collection of assessment data will be completed within eight
hours of admission, as observed by chart review.
* Assist with checking patient according to unit standards and/or
hospital policy, as patient needs dictate and reports pertinent
changes in patient status to the R.N.
* Completes documentation before completion of shift, as observed
by chart review.
2. Performs patient care according to standards of care and the
needs of the patient.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
* Collects data from patient and family for R.N. evaluation and
development of a teaching plan.
* Teaches family and patients.
* Completely and accurately documents medication administration,
treatments, collected data, interventions, and unusual occurrences,
as observed by chart review.
* Administers medications as ordered by physician.
* Performs treatments as prescribed by physician.
* Directs and assists ancillary nursing staff with assigned
duties.
* Monitors IVs and blood for proper functioning and reports any
untoward side effect to the R.N. immediately.
* Starts IVs prn and as ordered by physician.
3. Performs all other duties as assigned.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
One-year experience preferred
SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
Current Louisiana LPN licensure
Knowledge of basic ECG rhythm interpretation.
HIPAA REQUIREMENTS:
Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA
regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited
to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic,
patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient
information related to surgery or appointment schedules, medical
records related to quality/data, patient financial information,
patients related complaints, information related to patient
location, patients' religious beliefs and/or public health
records.
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:
Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety
practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to:
Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE,
exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient
identification, administers/receives/collects medication orders or
products, validates, transports, monitors or observes patients for
procedures including infusion pumps, and monitors clinical
alarms.
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