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Licensed Practical Nurse | Medical Assistant

Full time, 80 hours per pay period, Day s hift

Covenant Medical Group is Covenant Health’s employed and managed medical practice organization, with more than 300 top Physicians and providers spanning the continuum of care in 20 cities throughout East Tennessee. Specialties include cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiovascular surgery, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general surgery, infectious disease, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, occupational medicine, orthopedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, primary care, pulmonology, reproductive medicine, rheumatology, sleep medicine and urology.

Position Summary:

The LPN/LVN will provide nursing care under supervision of a registered nurse, within an assigned unit.

Recruiter: Bradley Sparks || bsparks2@covhlth.com || 865-374-5382

Responsibilities

• Initiates admission database and history, and in collaboration with the RN implements patient and family teaching and care needs.

• Practices in compliance with all regulatory standards and adheres to all hospital policy and procedures in the performance of duties.

• Performs and prioritizes nursing care tasks.

• Accurately follows the nursing plan of care and pertinent medical orders in collaboration and under direction of a RN.

• Observes and reports nursing interventions and patient responses, and documents in a timely, concise and legible manner.

• Recognizes, responds and reports changes in patient conditions to RN Team Leader.

• Participates in unit specific quality assurance activities and patient care conferences as requested.

• Demonstrates principles of infection control; collaborates with infection control nurse to ensure safety of patients, visitors, and personnel.

• Assists in orienting new employees or students to unit routines.

• Administers IV venipuncture and parenteral fluids per established hospital protocol.

• Performs specific advanced patient care treatments as approved to perform per hospital protocol.

• Demonstrates competence in performing critical skills to include appropriate delivery of care according to the age-specific needs of the population served.

• Strives to achieve high customer satisfaction by using Journey to Excellence tactics including but not limited to, AIDET, bedside shift report, purposeful hourly rounding, careboard completion, narrating the care, etc.

• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

Minimum Education:

None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.

Minimum Experience:

Must have a minimum of six (6) months experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse; and have successfully completed an IV therapy course developed from the Infusion Nurse Society Standards; or have a minimum of six (6) months experience as a LPN/LVN and have documented proof of having successfully completed a formal institutional/agency-based intravenous therapy training and competency program prior to January 1, 2007 or if after 2007, have completed a formal IV therapy program based on the current INS standards.

Licensure Requirement:

Currently licensed by the Tennessee Board of Nursing as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse.

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Job Title LPN II-CLINIC

ID 4006125

Facility Knoxville Heart Group, Inc.

Department Name KNOXVILLE HEART GRP