Field Licensed Practical Nurse (FT)

Care for ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled persons in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Essential Functions:

• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note 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.
• Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
• Measure an...