Ambulatory Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Behavioral Health Psychiatry, Full-Time (Day Shift)

Responsibilities:

• Minimum Required Qualifications:
• Completion of a LPN educational program
• Current licensure as a Licensed Practical Nurse LPN , issued by the PA State Board of Nursing
• American Heart Association CPR certification
• One 1 to Two 2 years of nursing experience in a primary or specialty care physician’s office.
• Prior triage, emergency room, cardiac care, intensive care or other related specialty nursing experience.
• Attention Concentration: The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously.  It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
• New Learning and Memory: The position requires that an individual be able to learn new tasks quickly and effectively.  change frequently.  The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved instructions is mandatory.
• Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: This position requires the ability to evaluate existing options to resolve a presenting problem. The resolutions or options are clearly defined, limited in number and are altered frequently. Selection of the most appropriate solution is based on well-established and defined guidelines.
•   The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations.  These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:
• Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
• Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
• Communication:  Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
• Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

Credentials:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• Licensed Practical Nurse (Required)

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Other
• One (1) to Two (2) years of nursing experience in a primary or specialty care physician’s office.  Prior triage, emergency room, cardiac care, intensive care or other related specialty nursing experience.