Nurse Extern - Licensed Practical Nurse at St. Claire Regional Medical Center – Morehead, Kentucky

Opportunities include:

• Behavioral Health
• Family Medicine
• Inpatient Rehab
• Medical/Surgical
• Pediatric Clinic
• Specialty Practices (General Surgery, Vascular, Cardiology, Podiatry, Urology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology, Hand & Plastics, Infectious Disease)
• Urgent Care
• Outpatient Procedural Services

The Nurse Extern is accountable for providing nursing assistance and performing basic nursing procedures under the supervision of a Registered Nurse upon validation of successful clinical training and competency. They can only be delegated tasks for which they have had successful clinical training through their nursing school and have received validation. The following duties can never be delegated to a Nurse Extern: medication administration, any independent assumption of the role, function, or responsibility of a nurse, and receipt or transcription of verbal orders.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assists with routine patient care and treatment as delegated by the RN/LPN, including vital signs, intake/output, pain assessment, administering enemas, applying hot/cold packs, monitoring glucose levels, and assisting with patient mobility.
• Recognizes and practices within the scope of certification and competency levels, relays any questions, concerns, or situations requiring follow-up or attention to the supervising RN/LPN, and seeks assistance when necessary.
• Communicates pertinent information in shift-to-shift and transfer reports and document items.
• Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients, ambulating, turning, and positioning patients, and providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, nonsterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz, therapeutic baths, and applying restraints.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight, testing urine, and recording intake and output information.
• Performs all duties and procedures as defined and authorized by KBN under the direction of an RN/LPN.

Education:
High school graduate or equivalent required. Enrollment in Board of Nursing-approved school of nursing required.

Experience:
Completion of nursing fundamentals and/or basic Medical/Surgical clinical rotation required.

Licensure/Certification:
None.

Additional Need:

Can present to HR once offer is made:

• Letter of Recommendation from instructor of choice
• Unofficial Transcript
• Current Class Schedule (and updated schedule and proof passing grades each semester for length of extern program)
• Signed copy of any nursing skills completed during school
• Signed 2-year LPN commitment to UKSC. Includes:
  • LPN Extern Sign-On Bonus: $500 now, $500 when graduate
  • Reimbursement for NCLEX, Background Check, KBN Application & JP Exam ~$394 with copies of receipts

Physical/Work Requirements:
The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is required to communicate with staff, patients, and visitors. Specific vision abilities this job requires include close vision for reading and computer work. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and be on foot for long periods. Must be able to tolerate PPE for long periods.

The work environment described here is representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in an area with good lighting and climate control. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.