Job Information
Capital Health Plan Licensed Practical Nurse (Urgent Care) in Tallahassee, Florida
Location:Metropolitan Blvd
Department:Urgent Care
Work schedule/hours:Three 12 hour rotating shifts per week (including every other weekend, evenings and holidays)
Job Summary:
- Provides prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to patients seen in Urgent Care. Assists the Providers and RN with delivery of health care.
- 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.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Minimum Qualifications:
Must obtain a Multistate Nursing License within 3 months of hire or appointment.
Basic Life Support Certification. Must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Ability to learn and use Windows-based software system to document care of members.