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STONEWALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)-Jayton in Aspermont, Texas
Seeking to add a Full Time LVN to their Team for Stonewall Memorial HospitalandStonewall Living Center.
Job Description:
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
*Requirements: *
- Must have a High School Diploma or GED
- Must be able to submit to and pass a Drug Screen/Test
- Must complete a Health Pre-screening Check Up and Physical Test
- Must be able to submit to a Background Check
Benefits:
- Benefits package for full-time employees.