Licensed Practical Nurse - Atrium Health BiddlePoint FM Full-time

About the role

This position involves providing patient care in a family medicine clinic setting. The primary responsibilities include preparing and rooming patients, performing laboratory procedures, assisting with procedures and surgeries, administering medications, and educating patients.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and rooms the patient for exam by obtaining vital signs and documenting/updating pertinent health information.
• Performs laboratory procedures using principles of aseptic technique and standard precautions / infection control guidelines.
• Auxiliary support to physicians/providers during procedures and surgeries.
• Administers medications under physician/provider orders, including immunizations, antibiotics, pain medications, vitamins, topical agents, and insulin.
• Initiates, maintains, and discontinues IV therapy; administering selected fluids with pre-mixed medications.
• Provides basic patient education on tasks, skills, treatment, and self-care.
• Follows through with necessary procedure or test requests, prescription refills, new appointment times, and referrals to other facilities or services.
• Communicates with physicians and other members of the health care team.
• Documents and communicates accurate and timely information regarding patient conditions.
• Performs advanced clinical tasks or skills such as removal of sutures and staples, catheterization, audiograms, laboratory procedures, EKG, spirometry, Holter monitor application, casting, complex wound care, etc., with demonstrated competency and under clinical supervision.
• Organizes and prepares exam rooms, lab and work areas including: cleaning, stocking, ordering supplies, and maintaining equipment.
• Performs various patient positioning and transporting duties, which require lifting and pushing/pulling, while utilizing proper technique.
• Completes routine maintenance and quality monitoring of clinic equipment using appropriate technique when cleaning, sterilizing and caring for instruments and other equipment.
• Participates in patient centered initiatives, care management, performance and quality improvement activities.

Requirements

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) license issued by the state in which the team member practices, and Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Completion of an accredited or approved program in Practical Nursing.
• No experience required.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills; ability to develop rapport and maintain positive, professional relationships with a variety of patients, staff and physicians.
• Excellent organization, prioritization and problem solving skills.
• Proficient computer skills including keyboarding, navigation within a windows operating system, and use of electronic mail with exposure to electronic medical records systems.

Skills

• Knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs.

Benefits

Benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development, and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work.