JGH LPN Pediatric Office

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40. Shift: Day. Non-Exempt position.

Responsibilities

• Prepare charts and physical facilities for patient visits
• Assist with medical procedures during patient visits
• Establish helpful and friendly relationships with patients
• Check examining rooms daily—clean and stock as required
• Prepare patients for the physician (weigh, measure, perform tests as necessary)
• Clean examining room after patient leaves
• Carry out physician orders (give injections, make appointments, clean and bandage wounds, do assigned treatments)
• Assist physician and/or Nurse Practitioner with treatments
• Screen incoming calls—decide if the physician and/or Nurse Practitioner needs to see or call patient
• Inform parents how to care for and what to expect from their child’s illness
• Periodically check entire work area including waiting rooms and tidy up as necessary
• Record test (lab, radiology, etc.) results in patient charts and contact patients as necessary regarding tests
• Collect Urine Drug Screen specimens and complete proper paperwork
• Perform Breath Alcohol Tests
• Perform Well Child exams and administer immunizations
• Contact pharmacies to authorize prescribed medication for patients
• Pull and process patient charts for next day (stamping, adding sheets, updating immunizations)
• Thoroughly clean and stock each examination room weekly
• Make patient appointments
• Perform filing, answer phones, and other duties as assigned by the physician

Requirements

• Current unencumbered licensure with the WV Board of Practical Nursing, or appropriate state board where services will be provided, as a practical nurse OR current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
• Current CPR certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an LPN

Physical Requirements

• Heavy/hard work requiring strength and/or stamina
• Lifting, moving, stooping, reaching, positioning of patients
• Standing, walking, carrying patients, materials, and equipment weighing 40+ lbs

Working Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.