Position Overview
Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse Job Summary Provide holistic nursing care to patients in a correctional setting.
Essential Functions - Assists health care providers, registered nurses, and allied health professionals with examinations, treatments, special tests, and routine procedures.
- Obtains patient health history, laboratory specimens, and vital signs and administers TB skin tests.
- Conduct lab tests and ensure the results are delivered to the correct physician or registered nurse.
- Ensures patient is receiving proper care for injury or condition.
- Review the patient chart; record and report observed symptoms, reactions, treatments, and changes in the patient's conditions.
- Schedules and coordinates paperwork for patient transfers to medical facilities or outside healthcare providers; administers medications; implements healthcare practitioners' orders and docume...