Licensed Practical Nurse - Medical Surgical Med/Surg
Hendersonville, NCFull-timeSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Licensed Practical Nurse provides direct patient care in an inpatient medical-surgical setting, addressing patients’ psychological and physical needs according to care plans, physician orders, and nursing and department policies. The role includes monitoring and reporting patient responses, delivering treatments and medications, supporting patients and families through admission and discharge, and contributing to care planning and unit activities.
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Description
Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.
Summary:
Provides direct patient care in an inpatient setting, meeting both psychological and physical needs in accordance with the plan of care, physician's orders, and nursing and department policies and procedures.
Responsibilities:
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Contributes to the development and maintenance of a current, individualized, goal-oriented plan of care and consults with other health professionals to assure that the assessed needs of patient/caregiver are met.
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Observes, assesses, documents, and reports patient response to treatments/therapies and teaching, and adjusts priorities of care according to patient/caregiver needs. Collects, documents, and reports (to responsible MD or RN) data regarding patient's biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, and discharge planning needs.
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Participates in unit, service, and/or department enrichment activities which contribute to positive outcomes such as assigned committees, CQI activities/groups, and the orientation and education of other personnel.
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Provides a broad range of treatments/therapies to patients including, but not limited to, respiratory treatments, Oral/NG/NT suctioning, and tracheostomy care, administration of medications, observation of cardiac monitors, respirators, etc. and reporting of any changes, assistance to physician with special procedures, monitoring of intravenous infusions, performs point of care testing, performs routine laboratory work, changing/irrigating catheters, specialized sterile dressings, and patient/caregiver teaching based upon the established teaching plan.
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Provides assistance to patients and families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic experience, and discharge.
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Provides support to patients and families. Verbally de-escalates frightened or potentially aggressive patients. Facilitates age appropriate coping strategies for patients.
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Ensures competency in all required skills and completes competency assessment annually per the documented competency checklist. Adheres to documented policies and processes as well as performing other related duties as assigned.
PARDEE
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Qualifications
Required
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Licensed to practice as a Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state of North Carolina.
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Basic Life Support (BLS)
01.6200.2000
Job Details
Legal Employer: Pardee - HCHC
Entity: Pardee UNC Health Care
Organization Unit: Medical Surgical Oncology
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Night Job
Location of Job: PARDEEHOSP
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
How this job compares
Set against the 9,900 open Licensed Practical Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$53–73K/yr31 salary ranges
- North Carolina median$28–35/hr218 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 413 open Licensed Practical Nurse jobs in North Carolina and 9,900 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Aveanna Healthcare47 open
- Advocate Health41 open
- BAYADA Home Health Care32 open
- Experience
- Licensed Practical Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,589 postings).
- Education
- 18 of the 9,900 open Licensed Practical Nurse jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Licensed Practical Nurse jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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