Job Title:  Licensed Practical Nurse

Location:  Lawton, OK 73507, USA
Contract:  1 Year  
Client Name: Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs/ODVA/Human Resources
Job ID:  23-00585
Shift timings: 6:30 PM – 7:00 AM  & 2:30 PM – 11:00 PM

Job Description:

• Provide nursing services, within the defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
• Perform nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection.
• Administer medication and observe and document therapeutic effects.
• Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care.
• Monitor established respiratory therapy and intravenous therapy.
• Monitor patients’ progress, evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions and consult with appropriate members of healthcare team.
• Provide safety and health education to individuals and their families.
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing the patients’ operative areas.
• Assist in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons.
• Clean and sterilize the operating room and instruments.

Documents required:

• Licensed Practical License From the State of MO.
• Current CPR or BLS.
• Covid Vaccination.