Licensed Practical Nurse I, II~ Fast Track
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Description: Southcentral Foundation is currently seeking to employ Licensed Practical Nurse I, II~ Fast Track right now, this career will be dwelled in Alaska. Detailed specification about this career opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. The purpose of this position is to provide direct customer-owner care to clients and their families assisting the providers in the c! linic in furnishing high quality health care. The function of the LPN is to organize and accurately complete a wide variety of complex clinical, technical and computer tasks.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Customer Care & Relationships:
Creates, develops, and nurtures culturally appropriate interactions and connections with each other, customer-owners, and the community.
Provides standard nursing care for customer-owners throughout the age continuum involving all body systems and processes.
- Promotes health outcomes in concert with currently accepted clinical practice guidelines.
- Some of the duties include but are not limited to: accurate recording of vital signs, performing phlebotomy, specimen collection, recording of EKG’s, dressing changes, medication administration, scheduling customer-owner appointments and procedures, and documenting of care in health record.
- Assists with customer-owner monito! ring during procedures, recognizing emergencies and customer-o! wner safety issues, and applying appropriate interventions as required.
- Assists provider staff in providing customer-owner care through treatments, procedures and education.
- Performs routine IV therapy including insertion, maintenance and discontinuing of peripheral sites and management of existing peripheral sites with premixed ‘piggyback’ medications.
- Adheres to applicable laws such as client confidentiality, Americans with Disabilities Act, Workers’ Compensation, abuse reporting, principles of consent, and advanced medical directives.
- Provides a safe customer-owner care environment through the timely reporting of changes or occurrences in the customer-owner’s physical or psychological status, as well as environmental and equipment factors and takes appropriate corrective action.
- Ensures the smooth flow of the customer-owner through the encounter.
- Provides maintenance for, and set up, a wide variety of medical ! equipment.
- Assists the members of the health care team, the customer-owner, and the family to identify, implement, and follow-up plans for continuing care.
- Respects the autonomy, dignity, privacy and the rights of the individual. Services will be guided by ethical principles.
- Facilitates the smooth flow of the department by assisting provider and other nursing staff.
- Assists with keeping the customer-owner care environment clean, safe and organized.
- Available to carry out orders in a timely and efficient manner.
- Works with clinic staff to make referrals to the appropriate departments per established guidelines.
- Ensures the availability of supplies and equipment used by the department staff completing daily inventories of various medical items.
- Completes inventory of stock drug supplies and intravenous fluids and submits re-supply requests! .
- Completes daily quality control testing and documentation of! blood glucose meters.
- Maintains in orderly fashion records of emergency equipment inspections, biomedical repairs and requests for maintenance of unit facilities.
- Utilizes the customer-owner database to enter and retrieve necessary information.
Shares and receives information, opinions, concerns, and feedback in a supportive manner.
Works collaboratively by building bridges, and creating rapport with team members within departments and across the organization.
Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
Improvement & Innovation:
Makes meaningful improvement to services, program, and processes and/or organizational effectiveness that creates new value for customer-owners and employees.
Participates in customer-owner and staff education.
- Participates in the development and implementation of customer-owner care and teaching plans.
- Part! icipates in unit staff meetings, in-service training activities and quality improvement activities.
- Provides age appropriate instruction and anticipatory guidance to customer-owners.
- Assesses educational needs of individual customer-owners and their families and provides needed education in accordance with established clinic guidelines.
- Emphasizes care instructions stressing the maintenance of health and disease prevention.
Seeks out additional learning opportunities to continue to develop the technical and professional skills needed now and in the future.
Takes responsibility for all work activities and personal actions by following through on commitments.
Demonstrated competency to perform each delegated responsibility, based on individual assessments.
Knowledge and skill sufficient to respond to emergency situations such as cardiopulmonary arrest.
Knowledge of a wid! e variety of interrelated or nonstandard assignments reflected in licen! sure as a practical nurse and broad work experience that demonstrates skill sufficient to resolve a range of problems with responsibility for carrying assignments to completion in providing care to a selected customer-owner load.
Knowledge of the human body structure and function, sufficient to recognize illness, diseases, and emotional and physical reaction to care for the purpose of reporting and recording.
Knowledge of clinic/department procedures for assembling customer-owner charts, recording provider’s orders, integrating x-ray ad test reports, graphing and charting medical data.
Demonstrate ability to provide accurate documentation in the customer-owner health record.
Demonstrate ability to learn the computer system, applying the knowledge to accurately schedule customer-owner appointments and test.
Demonstrate ability to accurately record vital signs, perform phlebotomy, specimen collection and record EKG’s.
Demonstrate ability to assist ! with customer-owner monitoring during and post-procedure, applying knowledge of safety principles, recognition of emergencies and provision of appropriate interventions.
Demonstrate ability to set up and maintain a wide variety of medical equipment and monitoring devices. Must be able to interpret these devices including deviations from normal values.
Demonstrate understanding of and sensitivity to culturally diverse customs and traditions impacting health care of customer-owner and family.
Knowledge of 1974 Privacy Act is required as use of customer-owner record is an integral part of the position and privacy of individuals must be protected to the fullest.
Ability to maintain quality, safety and infection control standards.
Additional Responsibilities for Licensed Practical Nurse II: Meets all requirements of Licensed Practical Nurse I in addition to the following:
Communications & Teamwork:
1. Supports clinical team thr! ough active participation, refinement of best practice models, sharing ! educational materials with team members.
2. Supports and participates as an active member of the core clinical team.
- Verbalizes and applies advanced access principles.
- Serves as a resource for other staff, participates as educator in the medication review class or tutors new department staff.
- Mentors and orients new staff members.
- Serves as a clinical leader.
4. Demonstrated ability to communicate advanced access principles.
Improvement & Innovation:
1. Demonstrated ability and knowledge of quality improvement principles and tools.
QUALIFICATIONS:
SCF programs are established for the purpose of serving a primary population comprised of Alaska Natives who are affiliated with the Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI), and Alaska Natives and American Indians within SCF’s geographical service ! area. Employees should have a thorough understanding of the cultures and the needs of the CIRI members, and of the general culture and needs of Alaska Natives and American Indians. Such knowledge is critical in order to ensure the achievement of the mission and vision of SCF: working together with the Native community to provide the best services with Native staff who value the family and family wellness as the heart of the Native community.
High school diploma or GED.
Alaska licensure as Licensed Practical Nurse.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Additional Qualifications for Licensed Practical Nurse II: Meets all requirements of Licensed Practical Nurse I in addition to the following:
Successful completion of competencies outlined in Job Progression Checklist.
Working Environment:
Fast Track/Emergency Dept.
- Employee may be exposed to: exposure to bloodborne pathogens (over 2/3 time); haz! ardous waste (under 1/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (to 2/3 time! ).
- Noise level: Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
Fast Track/Emergency Dept.
- Position requires: stand (over 2/3 time); walk (over 2/3 time); sit (under 1/3 time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (to 2/3 time); reach with hands and arms (over 2/3 time); climb or balance (under 1/3 time); stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (over 2/3 time).
- Weight lifted or force exerted: Up to 10 pounds (to 2/3 time), Up to 25 pounds (under 1/3 time), Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3 time), Up to 100 pounds (under 1/3 time), More than 100 pounds (under 1/3 time).
- Special vision requirements: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Home Based Services
- Employee may be exposed to: wet or humid non-weather (under 1/3 time); exposure to bloodborne pathogens (to 2/3 time); hazardous waste (under 1/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (under 1/3 time); extreme cold non-weather (under 1/3 time); toxic or caustic chemicals (under 1/3 time); work in confined spaces (under 1/3 time); outdoor weather conditions (to 2/3 time).
- Noise level: Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
Home Based Services
- Position requires: stand (to 2/3 time); walk (to 2/3 time); sit (under 1/3 ! time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (to 2/3 time); reach with ha! nds and arms (under 1/3 time); climb or balance (under 1/3 time); stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (over 2/3 time).
- Weight lifted or force exerted: Up to 10 pounds (under 1/3 time), Up to 25 pounds (under 1/3 time), Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3 time), Up to 100 pounds (under 1/3 time), More than 100 pounds (under 1/3 time).
- Special vision requirements: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), Peripheral Vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point). Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships). Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
- Additional physical demands: this position requires driving; employee may be required to wo! rk holidays, evenings, weekends, and nights; employee must be able to respond when needed by prompt appearance at a required location; employee may be required to provide customer-owner care in the customer-owner’s home or in other locations away from employee’s primary work site; travel may be required; the employee is able to work under physically and emotionally stressed conditions.
OB-GYN
- Employee may be exposed to: work near moving mechanical parts (under 1/3 time); exposure to bloodborne pathogens (under 1/3 time); toxic or caustic chemicals (under 1/3 time).
- Noise level: Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
OB-GYN
- Position requires: stand (over 2/3 time); walk (over 2/3 time); sit (to 2/3 time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (under 1/3 time); ! reach with hands and arms (to 2/3 time); stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl! (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (over 2/3 time).
- Weight lifted or force exerted: Up to 10 pounds (over 2/3 time), Up to 25 pounds (over 2/3 time), Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3 time).
- Special vision requirements: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), Peripheral Vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point). Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships). Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
- Additional physical demands: none.
OB-GYN
Age of Customer-Owner Population Served
Population
- Neonate (birth- 28 days)
- Infant (29 days- less than 1 year! )
- Pediatric (1-12 yrs)
- Adolescent (13-17 yrs)
- Adult (18-64 yrs)
- Geriatric (65 yrs & older)
- Customer-owner with exceptional communication needs
- Customer-owner with developmental delays
- Customer-owner at the end of life
- Customer-owner under isolation precautions
Outpatient Pediatrics
- Employee may be exposed to: exposure to bloodborne pathogens (under 1/3 time); hazardous waste (under 1/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (under 1/3 time); toxic or caustic chemicals (under 1/3 time).
Physical Demands:
Outpatient Pediatrics
- Position requires: stand (over 2/3 time); walk (over 2/3 time); sit (under 1/3 time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (under 1/3! time); reach with hands and arms (under 1/3 time); stoop, kneel, crouc! h, or crawl (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (over 2/3 time); taste or smell (under 1/3 time).
- Weight lifted or force exerted: Up to 10 pounds (to 2/3 time), Up to 25 pounds (to 2/3 time), Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3 time).
- Special vision requirements: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
- Additional physical demands: employee may be required to work holidays, evenings, weekends, and nights; travel may be required.
Outpatient Pediatrics
Age of Customer-Owner Population Served
Population
- Neonate (birth- 28 days)
- Infant (29 days- less than 1 year)
- Pediatric (1-12 yrs)
- Adolescent (13-17 yrs)
- All populations
PCC
- Employee may be exposed to: exposure to bloodborne pathogens (to 2/3 time); hazardous waste (to 2/3 time).
Physical Demands:
PCC
- Position requires: stand (to 2/3 time); walk (to 2/3 time); sit (to 2/3 time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (over 2/3 time).
- Weight lifted or force exerted: none.
- Special vision requirements: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less).
- Additional physical demands: employee may be required to work holidays, evenings, weekends, and nights.
Quyana Clubhouse
- Employee may be exposed to: exposure to bloodborne pathogens (over 2/3 time).
- Noise level: Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers and printers, light traffic)
Quyana Clubhouse
- Position requires: stand (to 2/3 time); walk (to 2/3 ti! me); sit (to 2/3 time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (to 2/3 time); reach with hands and arms (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (over 2/3 time)
- Weight lifted or force exerted: Up to 10 pounds (over 2/3 time), Up to 25 pounds (under 1/3 time)
- Special vision requirements: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)
- Additional physical demands: employee must be able to respond when needed by prompt appearance at a required location; the employee is able to work under physically and emotionally stressed conditions.
Quyana Clubhouse
Age of Customer-Owner Population Served
Population
- Adult (18-64 yrs)
- Geriatric (65 yrs & older)
- All populations
VNPCC
- Employee may be exposed to: exposure to bloodborne pathogen! s (under1/3 time); hazardous waste (under 1/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (under 1/3 time); toxic or caustic chemicals (under 1/3 time).
- Noise level: Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
VNPCC
- Position requires: stand (over 2/3 time); walk (over 2/3 time); sit (under 1/3 time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3 time); fumes or airborne particles (under 1/3 time); reach with hands and arms (under 1/3 time); stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (to 2/3 time); taste or smell (under 1/3 time).
Please complete an online application by clicking the 'Apply' button at the top/bottom of this page. For more information contact Human Resources via the SCF Contact page or (907) 729-4977 or Toll free at 1-800-478-3343
NATIVE PREFERENCE UNDER P.L. 93-638.
Preference will! not be given unless certification is submitted to Human Resources (a c! opy is acceptable).
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