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Occ. Code 5500220

SUPERVISING LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, GRADE 13

New York State Department of Civil Service

Classification Standard

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CLASS

          Supervising Licensed Practical Nurses supervise Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), Nursing Assistants, and unlicensed staff in the provision of patient care activities at the Department of Health’s Veterans’ Homes, and Stony Brook University’s Long Island State Veterans’ Home.  Incumbents also provide nursing care in accordance with Article 139 of the Education Law, and monitor and report clinical issues requiring immediate intervention to higher-level clinical staff, including registered nurses and physicians.  

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

          SUPERVISING LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE: supervisory level; reporting to a Nurse 2, Nurse Administrator, or physician, supervises LPN, Nursing Assistants, and unlicensed staff in the provision of patient care to individuals.

RELATED CLASSES

Licensed Practical Nurses provide nursing care to individuals, under direction of a registered professional nurse or physician.

Nursing Assistants (Certified) provide care to individuals in long term care facilities.  Care ranges from attending to individuals’ personal hygiene needs, to performing a limited number of simple treatments and therapy.

ILLUSTRATIVE DUTIES

Under the direction of a Nurse 2 or Nurse Administrator, supervises LPN, Nursing Assistants, and unlicensed staff.

-        Supervises staff, and assigns basic patient care and observational tasks to support nursing care.

-        Provides staff with patient care guidelines, and trains staff in basic patient care activities.

-        Observes staff carrying out assignments to ensure that patient care standards are followed, and that care is provided in a responsive and appropriate manner.

Provides nursing care consistent with individual treatment plans and the LPN scope of practice, in order to maintain health, prevent and cure illness and injury, and alleviate suffering using practical knowledges of disease process and facility procedures.

Attends to individuals’ daily living, hygiene, and simple human needs.

Talks to patients, and records and reports their responses in order to obtain and provide information for diagnosis and treatment.

Identifies individuals’ responses to treatments, medication, and/or changes in health status, and reports responses to a Nurse 2 or physician.

Addresses concerns or issues expressed by individuals, families, and staff, and reports to higher-level staff when necessary.

Maintains charts and other records of conditions and/or administered treatments.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

SUPERVISING LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, GRADE 13

Promotion: possession of a license and current registration as an LPN in New York State; and one year of service as an LPN.  

Date: 9/2019

NOTE: Classification Standards illustrate the nature, extent and scope of duties and responsibilities of the classes they describe.  Standards cannot and do not include all of the work that might be appropriately performed by a class.  The minimum qualifications above are those which were required for appointment at the time the Classification Standard was written.  Please contact the Division of Staffing Services for current information on minimum qualification requirements for appointment or examination.