LPN - Pediatrics Clinic

Job Summary

To provide quality practical nursing care to all clinic patients under the direction of the physician. Collaborate with other health care professionals in providing patient care using approaches that recognize each other's expertise to meet the comprehensive needs of patients.

Education/Certifications/Licensure

• Must be a graduate of an approved school of practical nursing.
• Must hold a current Mississippi license to practice as an LPN.

Experience

• Requires one year's experience as an LPN.
• Must have knowledge of general front office experience.

Competencies

• Competent in phlebotomy techniques.

Language Skills

• English required.
• Multilingual capabilities enhance the ability to perform this job.

Mathematical Skills

• Skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers, fractions, and decimals without a calculator.
• Skill in performing operations with units such as cup, pint, and quart; inch, foot, and yard; ounce and pound.
• Knowledge of the metric system units (length, area, volume, capacity, mass and weight) and U.S. equivalents.
• Skill in computing ratios, rates and percentages.

Reasoning Ability

• Must have the ability to apply non-judgmental reasoning capabilities whenever necessary when dealing with patients, visitors and staff.
• Must have critical thinking and multitasking skills a must.
• Must have reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do.
• Must possess purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based.