Licensed Practical Nurse - Hospice

JOB SUMMARY

The LPN provides direct nursing care for individual clients. The LPN delivers assigned delegated aspects of care, consistent with the overall comprehensive nursing plan of care documented by the Registered Nurse, and agency/unit policy, procedures and protocols. The LPN communicates with individual clients and visiting family or significant others to encourage expression of needs and confers with the Registered Nurse when patient’s expressed needs appear to be different from the documented plan of care. 

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