License Practical Nurse

La Rabida Children's Hospital

Standort: Chicago, United States

La Rabida Children’s Hospital provides specialized, family-centered health care to children with medically complex conditions, disabilities, and chronic illness. Through expertise, compassion, and advocacy we help children and their families reach their fullest potential, regardless of their ability to pay. Our not-for-profit hospital, licensed for 49 beds, helps transition children from neonatal or pediatric intensive care to home, by providing medical, rehabilitative and developmental care, and by training families to continue treatments and manage the necessary equipment in the home. La Rabida also provides extensive rehabilitation for those recovering from wounds or burns and treatment for exacerbations of chronic conditions. The hospital’s enhanced pediatric patient-centered medical home provides primary care to children with complex medical conditions and their siblings. Children with medical homes elsewhere come to La Rabida for specialty services. La Rabida offers a wide range of specialty services provided to children with sickle cell disease, diabetes, and many others. Children are supported in their emotional and developmental growth, particularly in cases where such growth has been interrupted by accident or disease. Finally, La Rabida provides forensic and treatment services for children exposed to abuse and neglect, comprehensive assessments for wards of the state, early intervention for children between 0 and 3 years of age. Care coordination services for medically complex children are also provided for those who are covered by a health plan and receive care from providers in Cook County SUMMARY: The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) provides safe, developmentally appropriate nursing care to pediatric patients and their families within the outpatient/ambulatory care setting. The LPN delivers direct and indirect nursing care to patients from infancy through adolescence and, when applicable, young adulthood.   The LPN practices in accordance with the Illinois Nurse Practice Act, organizational policies and procedures, demonstrated competencies, and established standards of pediatric ambulatory nursing practice. The LPN functions as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team and works under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN), Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), physician, or other authorized healthcare provider as appropriate to the activity and consistent with applicable law and organizational policy.   The LPN contributes to the nursing process by collecting and reporting patient data, implementing established plans of care, performing authorized nursing interventions, reinforcing patient and family education, documenting care provided, and promptly communicating changes or concerns to the RN or appropriate licensed provider. The LPN supports efficient clinic operations and patient flow while promoting patient safety, family-centered care, service excellence, and collaboration across the outpatient care team.   ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Provides Safe, Developmentally Appropriate Patient Care – 50% • Provides direct nursing care within the LPN scope of practice, demonstrated competency, organizational policy, and established plan of care by: • Collecting and documenting patient information, including vital signs, height, weight, pain score, medication history, allergies, and other assigned clinical data. • Observing patients for changes in condition and promptly reporting abnormal findings, symptoms, or concerns to the RN or appropriate licensed provider. • Implementing nursing interventions based on established plans of care and provider orders. • Utilizing knowledge of pediatric growth and development when providing care to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. • Preparing patients and families for examinations, procedures, treatments, and diagnostic testing. • Assisting physicians, APRNs, RNs, and other members of the healthcare team with examinations, procedures, and treatments. • Administering medications within the LPN scope of practice and according to provider orders, hospital policy, medication-administration standards, and demonstrated competency. • Administering routine pediatric and adolescent immunizations in accordance with provider orders, organizational policies, vaccine storage and handling requirements, and demonstrated competency. • Completing medication and vaccine safety checks and accurately documenting administration in the electronic health record and applicable immunization systems. • Performing point-of-care testing and specimen collection for which competency has been established, including tests routinely performed within the outpatient clinic. • Collecting, labeling, handling, and routing specimens according to hospital and laboratory procedures. • Performing ordered treatments and nursing procedures within the LPN scope of practice and demonstrated competency. • Supporting preventive health services, including age-appropriate screenings, health-maintenance activities, and follow-up of established care needs as assigned. • Reinforcing education previously established by the RN or provider regarding medications, treatments, preventive care, and follow-up instructions. • Providing developmentally appropriate support and comfort to pediatric patients during procedures, vaccinations, specimen collection, and other clinical interventions. • Maintaining a clean, organized, safe, and appropriately stocked patient-care environment. • Identifying urgent or potentially emergent patient concerns and immediately escalating the patient to an RN, provider, or emergency response process according to organizational policy. • Supporting patient flow by preparing rooms, coordinating assigned nursing activities, and assisting the interdisciplinary team as patient-care needs change throughout the clinic day. 2. Communication, Documentation, and Care Coordination – 30% • Communicates effectively with patients, families, and members of the healthcare team and manages assigned electronic clinical work by: • Reporting pertinent patient information and changes in condition to the RN, provider, nurse manager, or other appropriate member of the healthcare team. • Accurately and timely documenting nursing care, observations, medications, immunizations, treatments, screenings, patient/family education, and other required information in the electronic medical record (EMR). • Routinely monitoring and addressing assigned EMR staff tasks, messages, work queues, and electronic "buckets" throughout the workday in accordance with departmental expectations. • Managing assigned EMR tasks within the LPN scope of practice, including prior authorizations, patient forms, school/daycare forms, letters, medication-related requests, clinical documentation requests, and other administrative or clinical tasks routed to the nursing team. • Assisting with prior authorization processes by gathering required clinical information, completing appropriate documentation, communicating with pharmacies, payers, providers, and families, and routing requests requiring provider or RN review to the appropriate team member. • Reviewing and processing patient forms and letters within established departmental turnaround times, ensuring required information is complete and obtaining provider review/signature when indicated. • Communicating laboratory and diagnostic test results to patients and families when specifically authorized by the provider and consistent with organizational policy, established protocols, and the LPN scope of practice. • Providing only the interpretation, education, and follow-up instructions established by the ordering provider or approved protocol when communicating results. Abnormal, critical, unclear, or otherwise concerning results are promptly escalated to the RN or provider for clinical review and direction. • Documenting all patient/family communications regarding laboratory results, forms, letters

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