- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Apply compresses and ice bags.
- Assemble and use equipment such as catheters and oxygen suppliers.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health-care team members as necessary.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, moving in bed, and standing and walking.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests and treatments and explain procedures.
- Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures and blood pressure, dressing wounds, giving enemas, or performing catheterizations.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Supervise patient care techs.
- Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Education and Experience- Graduate of accredited Licensed Practical Nursing Program
- License, Certificate or Registration: Current Louisiana State Licensure
Specialists Hospital Shreveport provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Specialists Hospital Shreveport, LLC
Specialists Hospital is proudly physician owned and is actively in involved in the Physician Owned Hospitals of America (http://www.physicianhospitals.org/) and the Louisiana Physician Owned Hospital Association (http://www.lhaonline.org/) . Specialists Hospital Shreveport located in Shreveport, Louisiana offers you state of the art treatment in orthopedic and spine surgery- all in a unique, patient-centered environment that is close to home. Whether you are undergoing an outpatient or inpatient procedure, the physicians and staff at Specialists are committed to providing you compassionate and expert care while allowing for a seamless transition from hospital to home. Specialists Hospital Shreveport is the only hospital in Louisiana that focuses solely on orthopedic, spine and spinal neurosurgery.
Company Website: www.specialistshospitalshreveport.com
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