Community health clinic hiring for contract to hire nursing staff.
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
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.
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
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