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Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Plans and manages patient care according to each patient’s needs.
• Interviews patients and records their medical history and physical condition.
• Provides routine care for patients.
• Patient education
• Observes patients’ health.
• Reviews medical charts.
• Communicates with patients and their families.
• Prepares specimens for lab courier.
• Provides Pre and post-operative care
• Fracture care - Casting, splinting, and wound care (Use of Cast-Saw, Auto-Clave, and medical instruments)
• Application of DME
• Prepares and administers injections.
• Assists with patient comfort.
• Maintains medical supplies inventory and performing preventive maintenance to keep medical equipment operating.
• Counsels patients by transmitting physician’s orders and medications refills to pharmacy and progress notes to insurance for prior authorizations.
• Schedules procedures/imaging; verifying times with patients; and preparing charts and pre-admission and consent forms. Calls instrumentation representative for Internal fixation devices for surgery.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
• Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, letting manager know when low, and verifying receipt.
• Serves and protects the practice by adhering to professional standards; facility policies and procedures; and federal, state, and local requirements.
• Answers phone and returns calls in a timely manner
Education: Vocational/Technical degree in Nursing
Certification/License: LPN license required, CPR required.
Full Time
$46k-55k (estimate)
09/16/2024
09/29/2024
opelousasgeneral.com
OPELOUSAS, LA
500 - 1,000
1957
Private
LAURA JACIMORE
$50M - $200M
Hospital
Opelousas General Health System is a healthcare services firm that offers cancer, cardiovascular, chaplain, orthopedic and rehabilitation services.