Clinic RN or LPN

Job Summary

Essential daily duties include rooming patients, reviewing patient history, assessing their health status, and collecting and analyzing patient data. Staff will develop and implement processes consistent with nursing standards, including patient call‑back and patient education tools. An RN or LPN will perform general nursing duties—evaluation, planning, implementation, and documentation of care for an assigned population, and test and administer medications within the nursing scope of practice.

Each RN or LPN must be familiar with standard nursing concepts, procedures, and practices and will participate in performance‑improvement and CQI activities as needed.

Other duties may include assisting with office procedures, supply inventory management, cleaning and organizing exam rooms and equipment, scheduling, and patient reception services. The position requires excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with a multidisciplinary team of professionals and healthcare consumers.

• Follows the ten medication rights and reduces the potential for medication errors.
• Performs patient care responsibilities considering needs specific to the standard of care for patient’s age.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and the skills necessary to provide age‑appropriate care to the patient population served. Able to interpret data about the patient’s status in order to identify each patient’s age‑specific needs and provide care needed by the patient group.
• Ability to perform a head‑to‑toe assessment on all patients and reassessments as per policy and specific to unit age‑specific populations.
• Ability to adequately assess and reassess pain. Utilizes appropriate pain management techniques including non‑pharmacological techniques. Educates the patient and family regarding pain management.
• Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
• Knowledge of Infection Control, TB, Blood Borne Pathogens and Hazardous Waste plans.
• Formulates a teaching plan based upon identified learning needs and evaluates effectiveness of learning. Family is included in teaching as appropriate.
• Demonstrates ability to perform treatments and provide services within scope of practice.
• Communicates appropriately and clearly with all health care team members.
• Consults other departments as appropriate to provide for an interdisciplinary approach to the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates an ability to assist physicians with procedures and performs services requiring technical and manual skills.
• Demonstrates an ability to be flexible, organized and function well under stressful situations.
• Treats patients and their families with respect and dignity. Identifies and addresses psychosocial, cultural, ethnic, and religious/spiritual needs of patients and their families.
• Functions as liaison between the patient/family, physicians, other healthcare providers and administration.
• Interacts professionally with patient/family and involves patient/family in the formation of the plan of care.
• Maintains a good working relationship both within the department and with other departments.
• Documentation meets current standards and policies.
• Demonstrates the ability to use the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), to gather data and input quality information for EMR reporting measurements.
• Coordinates and supervises patient care as necessary.
• Assists in successful implementation of programs to improve coding and reimbursement for office‑specific procedures.
• Assists the physician(s), physician assistant(s), and Nurse Practitioners in addressing hospital and clinic related issues, serves as liaison and representative of Primary Care Clinic in resolving problems and participates on committees as appropriate.
• Ability to effectively coordinate care in a complex practice model with highly interactive multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals with competing demands on available resources which must balance to create patient‑centered care. Work will include setting common goals, merging…