What We Offer:
License Practical Nurse - Med/Surg
Join a supportive Medical/Surgical team where every shift offers new learning opportunities and meaningful patient interactions. You'll provide comprehensive care to patients with a wide range of medical and surgical needs while partnering with an interdisciplinary team committed to exceptional outcomes, compassionate service, and continuous professional growth.
Why Nurses Choose This Role
- Day-one medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible scheduling and generous paid time off to support work-life balance
- Tuition support programs and career advancement opportunities, including specialty certifications
- 6% retirement match and competitive total rewards package
- Mental Health, well-being, telehealth, and therapy resources for you and your family
Facility: Med/Surg | Location: Wilmington, NC, Full-Time | Work Schedule: 7 p.m. - 7 a.m.
What We're Looking For:
- Education :
- High School Diploma or GED, required.
- Graduate of accredited Practical Nursing Program.
- Experience :
- One year of relevant experience, preferred.
- Licensure/Certification:
- Appropriate state LPN license, required.
- NC state approved curricula for restrictive interventions (facility specific) within 3 months of hire for Emergency Departments and Behavioral Health units, required.
- CPI certification within 3 months of hire for Behavioral Health departments, required.
- Additional Skills (required):
- Computer skills, Phone call etiquette and Organizational Skills.
- Ability to comprehend policies and procedures and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team.
- Behavioral Health units' requirements only.
- Ability to intervene in a therapeutic manner for behavior patterns demonstrated by patients with a mental illness, personality disorder, substance abuse or developmental disabilities.
- Knowledge of psychiatric medications, side effects and treatment interventions, knowledge of psychiatric diagnosis, mental health concepts, and evidence based therapeutic interventions and treatments. CPI certification within three months.
- Ability to establish and maintain control of violent patients, defend self and others against violent assaults, ability to react appropriately in psychiatric crises, ability use violent and non-violent restraints per policy and procedure.
What You'll Do:
- Provide compassionate, patient-centered care to adult patients with a variety of medical and surgical conditions.
- Perform comprehensive nursing assessments, develop individualized plans of care, and monitor patient progress.
- Administer medications, treatments, and interventions while assessing and responding to changes in patient condition.
- Prioritize care and manage multiple patient needs in a fast-paced acute care environment.
- Collaborate with physicians, nurses, therapists, and other members of the interdisciplinary team to coordinate care and support positive patient outcomes.
- Educate patients and families on diagnoses, medications, treatments, and discharge plans.
- Promote a safe environment while following evidence-based practices, hospital policies, and patient safety standards.