LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE
Job Description
Typical Physical Demands: This position requires the following physical demands: Sitting, standing and walking for long periods of time, also stooping, bending, and stretching for files and supplies.
Occasionally must lift cartons weighing up to 30 pounds and assist patients during an exam. Re- quires manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard, telephone set, and basic clinical diagnostic equipment. Vision must be correctable to 20/20 and hearing within normal range to accommodate telephone contacts. Nursing positions can be very stressful because it is a multi- tasking environment with considerable direct patient contact.
Typical Working Conditions: Work is performed in a medical practice environment with frequent contact with patients and staff. Interaction with patients and staff is constant and interruptive.
Contact involves dealing with well, ill, and handicapped patients and exposure to airborne pathogens. This is an OSHA high risk position because of exposure to blood-borne pathogens mandating the use of universal precautions.
Essential Functions Against Which Position Incumbent Will Be Evaluated:
1. Contributes to supporting the mission of STEEMCC by ensuring that quality patient care is pro- vided in each patient contact and during each clinical encounter.
2. Provides direct care to prenatal patients by taking histories, administering medication, testing for HIV, checking post C-Section wound sites, and removing staples and sutures
3. Provides education to diabetic patients by instructing them on usage of blood sugar monitors, self-injection of insulin, and proper record keeping
4. Makes all arrangements for labor and delivery (L&D) by forwarding patient information and prenatal records to SRMC, making ultra-sound appointments, contacting L&D doctors with emergent patient problems, and logging deliveries and prenatal registrations
5. Tracks delinquent prenatal patients by calling to arrange follow-up appointments
6. Tracks abnormal lab results and referrals, ensures ordered tests are completed
7. Triages patients of all life cycles (adult, pediatric, neonatal, prenatal)
8. Administers pediatric and adult immunizations and other medications
9. Performs fetal non stress tests and other diagnostic and screening tests, such as glucose and cholesterol
10. Assists providers with clinical procedures
11. Maintains medical records by filing results and recording nurse’s notes
12. Gathers and reports UDS data as requested, participates in QI activities as requested by the Medical Director
13. Perform other duties as may be assigned including but not limited to Vaccines For Children (VFC) Primary Nurse duties.
Performance Requirements: Skilled in telephone tasking, computer scheduling and data base access and management, filing, general clinical tasks and procedures, interpersonal contact with providers, other staff, and patients.
Education: Graduation from high school and an accredited academic course of instruction in practical nursing mandatory
Experience: Minimum of two years in a medical office clinical environment preferably with access to prenatal patients
Licensure/Certificate: Licensed as a Practical Nurse by the USVI Board of Nursing
Alternative To Minimal Qualifications: Formal educational experience can substitute for the experience on a case-by-case basis.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Physical Setting:
License/Certification:
- LVN (Preferred)
- BLS Certification (Required)
- LPN (Required)
Work Location: In person
