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PositionTitle: Correctional Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Place of Performance:

SCI Somerset

1590 Walters Mill Road

Somerset, PA 15510

Shift Time: 2nd Shift - 1400-2230

Position Summary: Correctional Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Expert Level - The resource is known as an expert in this area. The resource can provide guidance, troubleshoot and answer questions related to this are of expertise and the field where the skill is used.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current Pennsylvania License for Practical Nurse, or eligibility to sit for the Practical Nurse Licensure Examination.
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to enter health data for residents into electronic medical records database.

Role Description:

• Provide practical nursing care and treatment for individuals with mental or physical injury/illness, developmental disabilities, or difficulty with daily living activities at a Commonwealth facility.
• Implement nursing care plans, performing practical nursing duties and patient/resident/inmate care.
• Prepare, administer, and record medications and treatments prescribed by physicians.
• Observe and report changes in physical and emotional behavior of patients/residents/inmates.
• Take and record vital signs, collect specimens, and maintain progress notes and administrative reports.
• Participate in habilitation and rehabilitation programs established by interdisciplinary treatment teams, including daily living and leisure activities.
• May hold charge responsibility for a living or patient care area, overseeing unlicensed personnel, maintaining treatment regimens, and requesting professional evaluation/treatment as needed.
• Perform duties in accordance with laws, rules, regulations, and practical nursing standards.
• Supervision may be received from a Licensed Practical Nurse Supervisor; licensure-required duties performed under direction of a Registered Nurse or Physician.

Required Competencies (includes but not limited to)

• Airway insertion, first aid, catheter care/insertion, AED, oxygen administration, IV therapy, heparin lock insertion/irrigation.
• Medication administration (oral, topical, injectable, suppository), dose calculations, inhalers, vital signs, nursing protocols, ambu bag usage.
• Audiogram and telebinocular testing, universal/standard precautions, perineal care, documentation of IV therapy and heparin lock care, tubing management, parenteral management, secondary medications.
• Use of IV infusion pump, manual flow regulator, venipuncture, IM/intradermal/subcutaneous injections.
• Tuberculin testing, transcription/acceptance of orders, O2 mask/nasal usage, peak flow meter, pulse oximeter, respiratory mask, suctioning, restraints, specimen collection.
• Ventilator care, o & p collection, urine dipstick, wound culture, ace wrap, anti-embolic hose, arm sling, binders, CPR, evacu chair, isolation, knee immobilizer, K-Pad, braces, traction, hemorrhage control, decubitus care, drains, dressing changes, ear/eye irrigation, eye staining.
• EKG, enemas, glucometer usage, Hoyer lift technique, jejunostomy tube-enteral nutrition, nasogastric/gastrostomy tube insertion/irrigation/feedings, nebulizer treatment, nephrostomy, neurological checks, ostomy care, suture removal, vaginal douche, sterile technique, wound care, blood pressure monitoring.
• Must function within standards of nursing practice at all times.

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