What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Practical Nurse position at Consensus Health?
Located in :
Point Pleasant, New Jersey 08742
Position Summary
The Licensed Practical Nurse is a key role in our practice. They create a strong first impression for our patients and ensure they feel cared for by our practice. They prepare a patient for the doctor's evaluation and assists clinical providers with patient examinations by obtaining and documenting vital signs, past medical and social history and updating electronic medical records (EMR).
Duties and Responsibilities
The duties include, but are not limited to :
- Assist professional nursing staff by providing direct patient care. Prepares charts, takes temperature, pulse, performs screenings, blood pressure and respiration and other duties as assigned.
- Assist physicians by maintaining practice workflow, organizing exam rooms, maintaining, and ordering supplies, screening patient requests and other duties as assigned such as blood draws, POC testing as directed by Provider.
- Follows instructions closely and reports observations and symptoms indicative of the patient's reactions to treatments and patient complaints.
- Responsible for workflow in practice to ensure timely appointments and decreased wait-times to see Provider.
- Assist in scheduling accurate initial evaluations, follow up appointments and cancellations.
- Initiates all appointment reminder calls in a professional and courteous manner, projecting appropriate language and tone of voice.
- Demonstrates effective oral, listening, and written communication skills that facilitate positive customer relationships and staff interaction in the delivery of care.
- Prioritizes duties and responsibilities and completes them accurately and in a timely fashion.
- Maintains confidentiality and demonstrates responsible judgment by updating knowledge, referring problems through appropriate channels, and observing the policies and procedures.
- Obtain and enter patient history, chief complaint, and update the medication list into the electronic medical record.
- Maintains compliance with legal requirements, HIPAA, OSHA, and company policies.
- Assisting with other office duties including answering phones, faxing, filing, etc.
- Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, placing orders, verifying receipt, sorting, and storing.
- Restocking exam / procedure rooms.
- Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures, complying with legal regulations
- Help answer phones, filing, greeting patients and any other administrative task. Maintains infection control / safety guidelines and confidentiality policies.
- Perform other duties / tasks as requested by providers, coordinators, and management in accordance with office procedures / policies
- Enhances practice reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
Qualifications or Education, Training and Experience
Knowledge and Skills / Expected Competencies
Physical / Mental Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, bend, sit, talk, lift, or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands and arms to operate general office equipment (PC, telephone, file cabinets, copier, postage meter, fax machine and printer). The employee may occasionally lift and / or move between 10 and 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
