JGH-LPN

WVU Medicine • Ripley, WV

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Licensed Practical Nurse prepares charts and physical facilities for patient visits, assists with medical procedures, and establishes helpful, friendly relationships with patients. The role supports physicians and/or Nurse Practitioners in a rural health clinic by preparing patients, carrying out orders, providing treatments, communicating with patients and families, and maintaining examination rooms and patient records.

Requirements

• Current unencumbered licensure with the West Virginia Board of Practical Nursing, or the appropriate state board where services are provided, as a practical nurse, or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• Current CPR certification is required.
• Ability to meet the physical demands of heavy/hard work, including lifting, moving, stooping, reaching, positioning patients, standing, walking, and carrying patients, materials, or equipment weighing 40 pounds or more.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).

Responsibilities

• Check examining rooms daily, cleaning and stocking them as needed.
• Prepare patients for physicians, including weighing and measuring patients and performing tests as necessary.
• Clean examination rooms after patients leave.
• Carry out physician orders, including giving injections, making appointments, cleaning and bandaging wounds, and performing assigned treatments.
• Assist physicians and/or Nurse Practitioners with treatments.
• Screen incoming calls and determine whether a physician and/or Nurse Practitioner needs to see or call the patient.
• Inform parents how to care for and what to expect from an illness.
• Periodically check the entire work area, including waiting rooms, and tidy as necessary.
• Record laboratory, radiology, and other test results in patient charts and contact patients as necessary regarding test results.
• Collect urine drug screen specimens and complete the associated paperwork.
• Perform breath alcohol tests.
• Perform well-child examinations and administer immunizations.
• Contact pharmacies to authorize prescribed medications for patients.
• Pull and process patient charts for the next day, including stamping, adding sheets, and updating immunizations.
• Thoroughly clean and stock each examination room weekly.
• Make patient appointments.
• Perform filing, answer phones, and complete other duties as assigned by the physician.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed