Licensed Practical Nurse @ Community Health Center
Type: Open ended temp, temp-to-perm for the right person
Location: Hornell, NY 14843
Temp Pay: $23-30/hour – depending on experience
Schedule:
8-hour shift between the following operational hours
Monday through Thursday 7A-8P, Friday 7A-5P
Shifts will be mix of 7A-3:30P and 11:30A-8P
Half-hour for lunch
Position Summary:
The LPN will work as a member of the Clinical Care Team, assisting medical providers in direct patient care and maintaining processes that result in efficient, high quality nursing and medical care.
Requirements:
- 1+ year of LPN experience
- Current valid license to practice nursing in NY State
- Graduate of an accredited program for Licensed Practical Nurse
- EMR experience – practice uses eClinicalWorks
Responsibilities:
- Maintains patient flow by preparing patients for their visits with providers. Assists providers in responding to patient needs related to medications, lab results, procedures, preventative/health maintenance measures.
- Perform pre-visit planning: Utilize software tools and chart review to anticipate health maintenance, preventative and chronic care needs of each day’s scheduled patients and assess where acute visits may be accommodated; Huddles as needed with providers, care managers, and other care team members.
- Room/prepare patients for provider visit: height/weight, vitals, med reconciliation, verify allergies, social history/smoking status, verify pharmacy, prepare refills; Follow health maintenance and chronic care protocols and enter as appropriate into chart/alert provider/provide to patient (mammogram req, colonoscopy referrals, FIT test kits); Set up room/prepare patient as appropriate for procedures/examinations; chaperone visit as needed; prepare consent forms, screening forms, smartforms, paperwork as needed.
- Performs in-house labs (lead, cholesterol, strep tests, urine, pregnancy tests, hemoglobin A1C) and procedures (EKG, peak flow meter) in accordance with standard nursing practice and/or health maintenance/chronic care protocols.
- Prepare lab specimens to be sent to the lab (drugscan, biopsy, PAP)
- Provide age and patient appropriate screenings (hearing/vision, PAM) and document/report as appropriate.
- Mediation refill requests: review medlist/chart/dosing, check I-STOP, load into EHR field for provider.
- Administer vaccines, injections, PPDs in accordance with standard nursing protocols and document appropriately (including NYSSIS).
- Answer and document phone calls from patients, pharmacies, etc. in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
- Provide nurse visits for patients: blood pressure checks, allergy injections, vaccines and correctly and consistently reassign visits to that day’s appropriate on-site provider.
- Clean exam rooms between each patient and as necessary.
- Stock exam rooms consistently and appropriately to maintain efficiency, quality and safety for patients and staff.
- Preload new patient clinical chart information/history: immunizations, medications, problem lists, past medical/social/family history.
- Complete paperwork as needed for providers/patients.
- Initiates and completes all parts of medication prior-authorization requests based on insurance requirements.
- Perform family medicine/pediatric ED recalls.
- Perform machine/POCT controls in accordance with manufacturer recommendations/industry standards.
- Accept deliveries/orders and put supplies away.
- Document refrigerator/freeze temps twice a day.
- Check expiration dates: injections, medications, samples, instruments and supplies.
- Sanitize instruments after using.
- Monthly job duties (specific to each nurse)
- Maintain accurate and pertinent documentation in EHR according to guidelines.
- Adhere to center infection control policies.
- Keep work area neat and tidy.
- Actively participate in QAPI activities.
- Participate in monthly nursing staff meetings and any other staff meetings within the organization.
- Maintain current Relias training.
- Adhere to all company policies and procedures.
- Any other reasonable requests from management.
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