Licensed Practical Nurse

Title: Licensed Practical Nurse

Practice: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates
Location: Marietta, Ohio

Office Hours

Primary Responsibilities:

· Work in conjunction with physicians in providing excellence in all aspects of patient care

· Directs flow of clinical area/assignment of patients to clinical staff

· Documents patient care

· Makes post-op patient calls

· Maintains narcotics and other medication and patient medication records

· Gives pre, intra, and post-op medications as ordered

· Orders medications and oversees documentation/counts of controlled meds

· Help maintain supplies needed list of office administrator

· Oversee sterilization and related procedures and documentation for infection control

· Send medical clearance requests per doctors’ requests and keep log of when we receive responses. Contact patients and confirm understanding of clearance and clearly document the clearance instructions in the patient chart so scheduler will know to confirm patient compliance

· Send biopsy specimens to Oral Surgery Pathology Lab and confirm receipt of report from lab and chart accordingly

· Reviews charts and alerts staff and doctors of positive history

· Starts, maintains, and discontinues IV’s

· Recovers and dismisses patients

· Monitors patient pre, intra, and post-op for complications

· Performs charting and checks charts for completion

· Read EKG strips

· Draws blood

· PRP procedure

· Maintain defibrillator and emergency medications and equipment and oversee regular emergency training drills for back staff

· Calls patients pre- and post-op as needed; patient phone calls taken as needed

· Calls in ordered prescriptions

· Performs patient glucose tests and maintains monitor

· BLS/ACLS/PALS

· Willing to take the DAANCE Certification

· Audits surgical EMR notes of back staff for accuracy

Secondary Responsibilities:

· Perform all duties of surgical assistant

· Home care as needed

· Help with sterilization process as needed

Skills & Abilities:

· Glucose Monitor

· Bard infusion pump

· Monitors

· PRP Machine

· Sterilization

· Suction

· O2 and N2O

· Panorex/CT scan/ITERO/Intraoral Camera

· Duplicator

· Cautery

· Pulp Tester

· Computer

· Emergency suction and defibrillator training

· CPR, ACLS, and Pals certification

Benefits:

• We offer Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans to our full-time employees.
• Two out of the three medical plans offered include Health Savings Account (HSA) eligibility.
• Company-paid Life, AD&D and Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Additional Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance for you and your family!
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability Insurance available to you as well
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) offered.
• Immediately begin saving for retirement through our 401(k) starting with very first paycheck!
• Employer 401(k) contribution and Profit Sharing after six months of employment
• PTO and 8 Paid holidays for fulltime employees!

DISCLAIMER
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. OPS’s management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.