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ID #1365101
State Idaho
City Lewiston / clarkston
Full-time
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Idaho
Showed 2018-11-16
Date 2018-11-09
Deadline 2019-01-08
Category Government
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Licensed Practical Nurse (Lewiston)

Idaho, Lewiston / clarkston 00000 Lewiston / clarkston USA

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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Behavioral Health is currently seeking a part-time (19 hours a week), non-benefited, temporary Licensed Practical Nurse to work in our Lewiston office. Specifically, this position will be responsible for providing medication administration and coordination of medical care with Regional Behavioral Health clients and staff.

Temporary appointments from this announcement, serving at least one thousand forty (1,040) hours of continuous service, may be hired as an entrance probationary employee without further examination for the same classification and location as announced.

The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare is a drug-free workplace. Any applicant offered employment in this position at the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare will be required to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Responsibilities:

Performs practical nursing care or assists a registered nurse or physician in routine to complex situations in clinics, private homes or state institutions.

Observes, records, and reports patients treatment, care, symptoms, physical and mental condition, behavior and progress.

Administers prescribed medications including intramuscular injections and observes for adverse reactions.

Performs treatments including change of sterile dressings, insertion of nasal gastric tubes, catheterizations and removal of sutures.

Interviews patients to obtain health information and instructs and counsels patients regarding basic health needs.

Teaches patients and their families the importance of proper diet, proper positioning, range-of-motion exercises, transfer techniques, and personal hygiene procedures.

Charts administered medications, symptoms, accidents, unusual behavior, doctors' visits and observed side effects of drugs.

Orders labs under physicians orders.

Minimum Qualifications:

Licensed as a Licensed Practical Nurse by the state of Idaho or state licensure as a Practical Nurse pursuant to the Nurse Licensure Compact, Idaho Code 54-1418, in one of the following compact states: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin or Wyoming.

To learn more about this position and to apply (by November 18, 2018), visit this link: https://www4.labor.idaho.gov/DHR/ATS/StateJobs/jobannouncement.aspx?announcementno=07676070345.

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