Prime Healthcare
Location
Gadsden, AL | United States
Job description
Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion and community! Riverview Regional Medical Center, a member of Prime Healthcare, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference.
Located in Gadsden, Alabama, Riverview Regional Medical Center is a 281-bed acute-care hospital serving more than 350,000 residents in Etowah and the contiguous counties. A full range of services and programs are offered, including the only accredited Cath Lab in Northeast Alabama, Sleep Lab, Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, and Women’s Diagnostic Imaging Center. Riverview Regional Medical Center is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) and is rated among the top 5% of hospitals in the nation for patient safety. Riverview is also the areas highest rated hospital, receiving Four-Stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). Originally named Holy Name of Jesus Hospital, Riverview Regional Medical Center was founded in 1917 by the Sisters of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity. Riverview was purchased by Prime Healthcare in 2016. Together they continue a mission of providing quality healthcare in the community it so proudly serves. To learn more about Riverview Regional Medical Center and the services it provides, visit
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The LPN Student Nurse Apprentice – Basic is an adjunct to the patient care team who works under the licensed nurse preceptor who remains physically present and readily accessible to designate, prescribe a course of action or give procedural guidance, direction, and periodic evaluation. Direct supervision by the licensed nurse preceptor is required for all invasive procedures. Permitted procedures must not exceed those defined as permitted by the Alabama Board of Nursing as “basic” competencies for the LPN Student Nurse Apprentice. Skills must first be verified by the program of nursing before the skill can be verified by the licensed nurse preceptor in the clinical setting. The licensed nurse preceptor may suspend or withdraw delegation to the LPN Student Nurse Apprentice at any time. The LPN Student Nurse Apprentice is responsible for documentation of all skills performed, but the licensed nurse preceptor is responsible to verify and sign documentation as required. The LPN Nurse Apprentice may not take verbal or phone orders without the presence of the licensed nurse preceptor.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING
1. Currently enrolled in an Alabama Board of Nursing approved nursing education program, required.
2. Current Alabama Board of Nursing Student Nurse Apprentice permit, required upon hire. Note: The permit valid for the duration of the student’s enrollment in an Alabama approved nurse apprentice program or until graduation from the nursing program. It is automatically invalid if the student withdraws from the apprentice program, nursing school or does not make satisfactory progress in the nursing program.
3. Sponsor (Nursing Program) verifies the apprentice meets minimum apprentice eligibility requirements, required.
4. Current Basic Life Support Certification
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