Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - OR - PRN

Job Type: PRN | Days

Your experience matters

At Ashley Regional Medical Center, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you're not just valued as an employee, but as a person. As a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

Department/Unit Summary

The Surgery Unit at Ashley Regional embodies a culture of teamwork and effective communication, essential for providing specialized care patients.

How you'll contribute

A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who excels in this role:

• As supervised and delegated by a registered nurse, provides direct patient care to patients in accordance with applicable scope and standards of practice.
• Prioritizes and organizes delivery of patient care under the supervision and delegation of an RN; accepting a variety of assignments and consulting with other disciplines as appropriate.
• Assists in staff development activities.
• Orients, instructs and trains others, emphasizing departmental, as well as interdepartmental cooperation and teamwork.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to patients' comfort and privacy and expresses interest in their progress and aids patients and families as needed in times of stress or crisis.
• Under the direction of an RN, contributes to the assessment of patients by collecting data for analysis by an RN.
• Performs plan of care interventions, including specimen collection and wound care.
• May administer medication as directed by the Physician and RN.
• Documents patient care given.
• Assists RN with development of plan of care.
• Assists patients with performing activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, elimination, nutrition, and ambulation.
• Monitors, documents, and communicates patients' status and reactions to interventions with RN, physician, patient, and families.
• Works as an advocate for the physical and emotional well-being of the patient.

Qualifications and requirements

• Current Utah LPN license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of hire
• Enrollment in an LPN to RN program, preferred

About our Health System
Ashley Regional Medical Center is a 39 - bed hospital located in Vernal, Utah and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone-your experience matters.

EEOC Statement

Ashley Regional Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ashley Regional Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

Equal opportunity and affirmative action employers and are looking for diversity in candidates for employment: Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.