Are you a nurse looking for a rewarding career where you can provide direct, one-on-one patient care? UPMC Home Healthcare is hiring caring, skilled, and compassionate licensed practical nurse (LPN) to join our home health nursing team! You’ll work in a home setting with a diverse patient population throughout these surrounding communities. Working outside of a medical facility, you’ll have an opportunity to get to know patients as you guide their care in the comfort of their homes.
Monday – Friday daylight shifts with weekend rotations. You will support the Bedford County.
Why choose UPMC Home Healthcare
Establish rapport with patients and their families as you guide their treatment plan in-home. Sign-on bonus up to $12,500.00 for those that qualify Grow your career with a career ladder designed for your professional advancement. Flexibility in your work schedule. Care for your total well-being with UPMC’s robust benefits package – physically, financially, and emotionally – including tuition reimbursement and discounted RN-to-BSN programs. Receive mileage reimbursement (at the federal rate).Final title and pay will be determined by education, experience, and certifications.
Act as a member of the health-care team by exercising sound nursing judgment based on preparation, knowledge, experience in nursing and competency and able to provide care following UPMC LPN Practice Guidelines and policies, and the State Board Regulations. The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) participates in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care using focused assessment in settings where nursing takes place under the direction of a Registered Nurse or other licensed UPMC provider.
Responsibilities:
The LPN is prepared to function as a member of the health-care team by exercising sound nursing judgment based on preparation, knowledge, experience in nursing and competency. The LPN participates in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care using focused assessment in settings where nursing takes place. Visits in patients home making routine LPN visits. Assisting RN with patient care. An LPN shall communicate with a licensed professional nurse and the patient’s health care team members to seek guidance when: The patients care needs exceed the licensed practical nursing scope of practice. The patients care needs surpass the LPN knowledge, skill or ability. The patient’s condition deteriorates or there is a significant change in condition, the patient is not responding to therapy, the patient becomes unstable, or the patient needs immediate assistance.