About this role
Job Summary
Provides patient care as directed and is accountable for own actions under provided direction. Provides a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing and delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights. Performs other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities
- Collects patient data.
- Assists in planning patient care.
- Implements patient care as directed.
- Assists with evaluating the plan of care.
- Administers medication as prescribed.
- Provides and reinforces the teaching of individuals and groups of patients.
- Participates in activities designed to improve health care delivery.
- Participates in ongoing educational activities.
- Completes assigned goals.
Specifications
Experience
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
Education
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
Training
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
Special Skills
Minimum Required
- Computer Literacy
Preferred/Desired
Licensure
Minimum Required
- BLS Certification Within 14 Days of Hire; LPN
Preferred/Desired
Other facts
About Baptist
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
What you'll do
- The LPN in Cardiology is responsible for providing patient care as directed, collecting patient data, and assisting in planning and evaluating patient care. They also administer medications and provide education to patients and groups.
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