LPN, Healthcare Nursing, LPN​/LVN

Job Description:

Baptist Health Medical Group LPN – Orthopedic Surgery St. Matthews Area Full Time / First Shift

The LPN or RN assists physicians and clinical staff by collecting pertinent patient information needed to determine physical and psychological needs, identify and address health concerns, and provide appropriate patient care. The LPN or RN performs treatments, diagnostic procedures, and routine clinical duties within their scope of practice and demonstrated competencies. Direct patient care is provided to patients of all ages.

• Perform EKGs, venipunctures, pulmonary function testing, and other laboratory procedures and treatments accurately.
• Obtain and accurately document vital signs and patient information in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Apply splints, braces, and wound dressings correctly.
• Administer medications according to physician orders and applicable scope of practice.
• Assist physicians with examinations and procedures.
• Prepare, clean, and maintain rooms, equipment, and instruments; practice appropriate infection control procedures.
• Order and restock clinical supplies as needed.
• Report equipment and facility maintenance needs to the appropriate manager.
• Respect and promote patient rights, maintain patient confidentiality, and demonstrate friendly and helpful behavior.
• Respond appropriately to patient emergencies and follow established policies and procedures.
• Follow OSHA, departmental, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Perform quality control activities and maintain required documentation and records.
• Report departmental, staffing, and operational concerns to the appropriate supervisor in a timely manner.
• Perform clerical duties as needed, which may include scheduling appointments, answering phones, filing, copying, completing forms and referrals, obtaining precertification's, collecting demographic information, updating patient charts, and ensuring fee tickets accurately reflect services performed.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Graduation from an approved practical nursing program for LPN candidates.
• Current state licensure as a Practical Nurse for LPN candidates.
• Current RN licensure for RN candidates.
• Clinical or physician office experience preferred.
• Orthopedic or surgical clinic experience preferred.
• Computer skills preferred.
• Basic Life Support certification required, with other advanced training as appropriate.

RN, LPN, Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedics, Clinical, Triage, Patient Care, Medical Office

Summary PM asked that RN position be downgraded to LPN. Originally approved for an RN 20196 position

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full‑spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist…