Generic Job Description L.P.N. Grade D

Representative Duties:

Provides physical care and carries out therapeutic and medical regimens.

Obtains patient histories and medical information.

Assists with medical and minor surgical procedures.

Assesses, reports, and records vital signs and measurements. Collects specimens.

Observes patients for physical or emotional changes. Reports observations.

Prepares examining rooms. Selects, sets up and maintains medical supplies and equipment.

Maintains a comfortable, orderly, safe and clean environment for patients.

Responds to medical emergencies.

Records patient information.

Prepares patients for continuing care after treatment. May instruct other LPNs. May serve as a source of information on nursing matters pertaining to section.

Schedules and coordinates patient and test appointments.

May administer medications under direction and authority of professional medical staff person.

Performs additional functions incidental to nursing activities.

Family: Clinical
Job Code: 532 Date: 1/92

The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 532 LPN Grade D

Required Knowledge:

Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field of learning.

Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University rules and procedures.

Required Skills:

Extracts and compiles a range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking questions, or from one or several given databases, limited interpretation of data.

Uses a dictionary.

Files already labeled material using a straightforward, alphabetical or chronological system.

Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, and policy statements.

Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.

Occasional use of more complex machines such as word processors or personal computers.

Performs one or several simple laboratory or scientific procedures that require some training, but that can be reversed or duplicated inexpensively; records results as necessary.

Office and Administrative Skills:

Keyboards forms, labels and other simple material.

Enters and retrieves data from semi-finished source documents on a personal computer, requiring both some interpretation of the source documents and a basic understanding of software parameters.

Arranges for and coordinates schedules, appointments, projects, conferences, and major events.

Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.

Experience, Education, and Formal Training:

Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Complexity and Organization:

Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.

Often coordinates or organizes the work of others.

Interpersonal Relations:

Ongoing involvement outside immediate unit.

Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on complex matters.

Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give.

Supervisory Guidelines:

Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities; supervisor reviews works after completion.

Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.

Independent Judgment

Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.

Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.

Problems cannot usually be solved by following established procedures; solutions must be found independently.

Leadership Responsibility

Occasionally provides work guidance or orientation for non-routine procedures/policies.

Often distributes and monitors work.

Impact and Consequence of Error

Work affects outside immediate work unit, but rarely outside the University.

Errors are not necessarily recognizable and cannot always be corrected and can cause considerable harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals and groups.

Working Conditions

Ongoing possibility of safety risks.

Regular, multiple or conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines, or emergencies.

Regular sustained concentration.

Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.

Certification

Licensure as a Practical Nurse in the State of Connecticut.

Graduation from a State approved program of practical nurse education.