Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) (32390)

Required Certifications/Licensure, Education, and Experience: VALID STATE LPN/LVN LICENSE FROM AN ACCREDITED SCHOOL

Leadership Responsibilities: NONE

Essential Functions: NURSING

Physical Demands And Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are the representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Physical demands: Full range of body motion, including manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination; extensive periods of standing and walking; bending, lifting, and carrying; extensive involvement with sick or stressed management, providers, staff, patients, and their families.
• Sufficient strength and endurance to perform moderate physical activity including but not limited to handling of average-weight objects up to 25 pounds, standing and/or walking for more than four (4) hours per day, bending, and twisting.
• Physical dexterity and psychomotor skills to respond adequately and appropriately to routine and emergent patient care needs.
• Work environment: Combination of medical office and exam/procedure room setting. Well-lighted and well-ventilated. Environmental hazards may be unpredictable, including exposure to communicable diseases and biohazards. Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Works in a patient care setting where there is a potential exposure to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, electrical, fire, chemical, physical contact and equipment hazards.
• Works in close quartered and shared workspace.
  
  

Performance Requirements

Knowledge

• Knowledge of advanced practice of nursing including anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology and therapeutics, basic nutrition, behavioral factors, psychosocial/family systems, diagnostic testing, interpretation of results and clinical decision making, alternative treatment modalities.
• Knowledge of professional nursing theory, practices and regulations related to evaluating and providing patient care, and professional ethics related to the delivery of nursing care.
• Knowledge of medical equipment and instruments used to administer patient care.
• Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish/maintain a safe work environment.
• Knowledge of health promotion, health risk identification, and patient education principles and techniques.
• Knowledge of community, professional, and educational resources.
  
  

Skills

• Skill in oral and written communication including interviewing to gather medical histories; providing presentations, consultations, facilitation, and documentation, e.g., writing medical orders, patient education materials, and medical record updates. May require skill in using computerized health information management systems.
• Skill in case management, time management, problem solving, crisis intervention, multitasking, and other organizational matters.
• Skill in modifying methods and techniques of professional nursing to provide appropriate nursing care and in initiating appropriate emergency response and investigatory procedures.
  
  

Abilities

• Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision on assigned tasks as well as accept direction and real time coaching on given task.
• Ability to manage high volumes of patients in a short span of time, while dealing with unpredictable issues.
• Personal flexibility to perform in an ever-changing work environment with frequent interruptions.
• Ability to prioritize competing responsibilities while under pressure.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively and professionally with patients, coworkers, and other practice customers.
• Prepare patients for physician or healthcare provider encounters including auditing charts in accordance with practice standards and policies.
• Secures and evaluates medical health and development history of the patient.
• Prepare rooms, obtain vital signs, records patient’s histories, sterilize instruments, prepare equipment or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
• Prepares and administers medications according to organization policy and procedure.
• Conduct specified laboratory test including but not limited to phlebotomy and urine analysis.
• Preform patient follow-up including notifying patients of laboratory results, scheduling referral appointments, maintaining charts and records, and responding to patient telephone calls.
• Maintain clinical competencies for clinical areas and provides patient care as needed.
• Scheduling and maintaining of patient appointments across a multitude of services.
• Maintains the medical record including confidentiality and documentation of all care provided in accordance with organization standards and HIPAA laws