LPN Clinic Operations, Float - FT *2,500 Sign On/Retention Bonus bei Magruder Hospital

Improving Lives Together

Magruder Hospital offers competitive wages with a comprehensive benefit package available to both full-time and part-time employees. We provide a full health plan and generous time off that includes Holidays, Vacation, Sick, Personal, and even your Birthday!  Our culture and family friendly work environment truly set us apart- apply today for an opportunity to join our team and help serve this great community!

$2,500 SIGN-ON and RETENTION BONUS

***This is a full-time, day shift position with no weekends or holidays.***

The LPN is responsible for providing safe and effective nursing care to all patients utilizing the nursing process in all clinic areas under the supervision of physicians’ and clinical services manager. 

The essentials duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Rooming patients
  • Obtains patient vitals, updates patient medication list, problem list and documents health history.
• Triage phone calls
  • Makes appointments if necessary
  • Documents phone call to patient in patient electronic chart and relays patients question or concerns to physician; as necessary.
  • Returns calls to patients in a timely manner; provider information, results, or other medically pertinent information as directed by provider.
• Makes appointments/referrals for patients to specialist
  • Provides written appointment information for patient in office, or phones patient with appointment information.
  • Fax pertinent patient information to specialist’s office
  • Documents appointment in patient electronic chart
  • Documents referral in patient electronic chart
• Schedule tests for patients
  • Provides  education to patient about test
    • Including test preparation, directions to test, hospital registration, duration of test
    • When to expect test results
  • Documents test information in patient electronic chart and for patient
  • Verifies with insurance and obtain prior authorization for test
  • Document prior authorization information in patient’s chart
  • Provide prior authorization documentation to Magruder Hospital
  • Fax test order to testing facility. Insure that fax was sent, and confirmed.
• Phlebotomy
  • Draws lab work in office, providing safe, efficient venipuncture at patient’s office visit and at scheduled nurse visits
  • Logs all blood draws/specimens for hospital lab pick up.
  • Insures that specimens are labeled and stored properly
  • Demonstrates proficiency  on an annual  basis
• Performs lab testing in office
  • Urinalysis
  • PT/INR
  • HgbA1c
  • Glucometer
  • Urine pregnancy test
  • Rapid strep
  • Influenza A&B
  • Documents lab results in patient electronic chart
  • Documents lab results on flow sheet in lab
  • Maintains and operates equipment to hospital lab standards
  • Demonstrates proficiency  on an annual  basis
  • Completes quality control testing on lab equipment per hospital lab standards
  • Orders and maintains laboratory supplies
• Trained in Magruder Hospital  electronic medical record charting
  • Able to retrieve emergency room notes and test results from Magruder Hospital Cerner system
• Performs EKG’s in office
• Gives immunizations to infants, children and adults
  • Maintains separate immunization logs for insurance and VFC
  • Maintains temperature documentation log for refrigerator and freezer containing immunizations
  • Maintains current VIS (vaccine information sheets) and provides them to patients for all vaccines given
  • Documents vaccines in patient chart
  • Accesses IMPACT/state immunization website to obtain immunization records for patients
• Administers injections to patients as directed by physician
• Assists physician in minor surgical procedures
• Stocks and re-orders supplies needed for patient exam rooms, surgery rooms, and lab
• Maintains and orders drugs needed for clinic use
• Maintains log for insulin samples and stocks insulin samples in refrigerator
• Stocks prescription drug samples in locked sample closet per hospital pharmacy guidelines
  • Maintains log in/log out for prescription drug samples
  • Pulls expired prescription drug samples from the shelves in a timely manner and disposes of them properly
  • Assists pharmaceutical drug representatives in determining need for samples, obtaining physician signature  
• Maintains Clinic crash cart medications
  • Maintains  crash cart medications with expiration dates
  • Pulls expired medications  and supplies
  • Orders replacement drugs and supplies from Magruder Hospital Pharmacy
  • Picks up replacement medications  and supplies at Magruder Hospital Pharmacy and restocks the crash cart
• Maintains eye wash stations at sinks, and documents on flow sheets weekly
• Refills routine maintenance prescriptions as directed by physician
• Requests medication refills via EMR from doctor
• Faxes completed documents as directed by physician
• Assists patients with prescription drug assistance programs
  • This includes paperwork, faxing, phone calls and delivery of medications to our office
• Attends educational meetings at the hospital
• Completes annual online classroom training and testing
• Attends staff meetings
• Works in other offices and with other physicians as needed