Outpatient LPN, OBGYN

Responsibilities

• Performs initial, ongoing and functional health status assessment as applicable to the population and/or individual.
• Collects and documents initial and ongoing subjective and objective data from patients, significant others, and communities.
• Reviews data obtained by other members of health care team and incorporates into assessment.
• Identifies and communicates assessment findings, both initial and ongoing, to appropriate people via referrals, rounds, huddles, reports and care conference, etc.
• Uses assessment data to identify pertinent nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems.
• Collaborates assessment findings with providers and members of healthcare team as appropriate.
• Uses scientific knowledge, Critical thinking skills, technical skills, and effective interpersonal and teaching skills to provide nursing care.
• Based on nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, documents planned nursing interventions to achieve outcomes appropriate to patient needs including: age, size, and development stage.
• Initiates and/or coordinates care plans and individualizes critical paths/medical management plans.
• Promotes cost effective care by minimizing fragmentation, maximizing coordination and facilitating patient/family through the health care system.
• Accountable for quality improvement and clinical outcomes and any other duties assigned.
• Documents interventions to assist patient/community to achieve expected outcomes.
• Uses scientific knowledge, critical thinking, technical skills, and effective interpersonal skills to provide direct patient care as needed.
• Evaluates and documents response to nursing interventions and achievement of outcomes at appropriately determined intervals; as part of a multidisciplinary team, revises plan of care based on evaluative data.
• Delegates tasks in accordance with specific criteria and state statutes.
• Reviews work performed by those to whom it is delegated.
• Coordinates continuity of care as indicated by patient/family/community needs and resources along health/wellness continuum in collaboration with other members of the health care team.
• Participates in development of self, peers and others, e.g. MAs, nursing students.
• Coaches other employees and provides feedback to others, as appropriate.
• Actively participates in process improvement activities to achieve targeted measures of clinical quality, customer satisfaction, and financial performance.
• Acts as patient advocate.
• Participates and shares information from committees, research and self-development programs.
• Communicates and participates appropriately in staff meetings, and collaborates with providers.
• Manages resources including personnel, supplies and equipment to maintain a safe and efficient environment.

Qualifications

• High School or GED (Required)
• BLS - Basic Life Support - American Heart Association
• LPN - Licensed Practical Nurse - National Council of State Boards of Nursing