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Registered nurses play a vital role as they touch the lives of patients with serious injuries or illness, or in a mental health unit, helping patients manage conditions like anorexia or depression. The responsibilities of a nurse are different in department and position and it makes the job so versatile. At HPN we are the direct caretakers for patients in the healthcare entities by managing patients’ daily activities, medications, assessments, and scheduled procedures and operations.

• Restores and promotes patient’s health by completing the nursing process.
• Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
• Provides physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families.
• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and their families.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and hospital or regulatory standards.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols; medication administration and storage procedures; and controlled substance regulations.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs; and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending
• educational workshops and participating in professional societies.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Registered Nurse Qualifications/Skills:

• Clinical skills
• Bedside manner
• Infection control
• Physiological knowledge
• Administering medication
• Medical teamwork
• Multitasking, listening, and verbal communication.

Working as an LPN is by providing basic nursing care to patients while working under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN) or doctor. LPNs interview patients about their current condition, as well as their medical histories, current medications, allergies, family history of conditions and take patient’s blood pressure, pulse. Temperature and respiration and weight.

• Plans and manages patient care according to each patient’s needs.
• Interviews patients and records their medical history and physical condition.
• Obtains patient vital signs, including pulse, blood pressure, temperature, and respiration.
• Provides routine care for patients.
• Observes patients’ health.
• Reviews medical charts.
• Accompanies patients to their rooms.
• Assists physicians and registered nurses.
• Communicates with patients and their families.
• Performs standard diagnostic procedures including EKG, phlebotomy, venipuncture, PFT, and Doppler.
• Prepares specimens for lab courier.
• Administers medications.
• Provides wound care.
• Prepares and administers injections and/or enemas.
• Assists with patient comfort.
• Monitors catheters

• Medical knowledge
• Patience
• Compassion
• Kindness
• Critical thinking skills
• Knowledge of infection control practices
• Stamina and physical endurance
• Observational skills
• Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety rules
• Communication skills
• Leadership
• Empathy

• Completion of state approved training program (in the form of a diploma, certificate, or associate degree)
• LPN license (pass NCLEX-PN exam)
• BLS certification
• 1-2 years recent nursing experience
• Health promotion and maintenance

At HPN We are patient, steady, loving, and compassionate. With HPN, it takes a special person to provide care to others. Certified Nursing Assistants (CANs) wears many hats as they provide valuable healthcare services to patients and residents in conjunction with and supervision from nurses. CNAs record and communicate all issues to medical staff and are involved in an array of tasks daily.

• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary and ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; and providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Provides extra care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; and applying restraints.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight, testing urine and recording intake and output information.
• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients’ call lights and requests; and reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
• Protects organization’s value by keeping patient information confidential.
• Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures; federal, state, and local requirements; and jcaho standards.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, participating in professional organizations, and maintaining licensure.
• Enhances nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; and exploring opportunities to improve value to job accomplishments.

CNA Skills and Qualifications:

• Must have basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology
• Knowledge of relevant nursing care
• Friendly and professional bedside manner
• Maintains current CPR certification
• Multi-tasking skills
• Effective oral, written, and reading communication skills
• Understands legal implications of patient care

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Must have certification with accredited training course and current certification through American Heart Association in Basic Life
• 2 years of nursing assistant experience
• Appropriate license

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