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Position:Licensed practical Nurse SNF
Location: Manitowoc, WI
Duration: 6 weeks contract
Shift: Days 6:00 am - 2:00 pm (8*5s)

Job Description:

• Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.
• Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.

Responsibilities:

• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting 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.
• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
• Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Record food and fluid intake and output. Perform general office duties, such as answering telephones, taking dictation, or completing insurance forms.
• Greet and log in patients arriving at office or clinic.
• Schedule appointments for patients.
• Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
• Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for tests or admission.
• Inventory and order medical, lab, or office supplies or equipment.
• Operate x-ray, electrocardiogram (EKG), or other equipment to administer routine diagnostic tests.
• Change dressings on wounds.
• Set up medical laboratory equipment.
• Keep financial records or perform other bookkeeping duties, such as handling credit or collections or mailing monthly statements to patients.