Temporary Hire - LPN

Montefiore Health System•New York, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Under the direct supervision of the RN and Site Leadership and reporting to Women's Health Leadership, the Licensed Practical Nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to help plan and implement care interventions and promote high-quality patient care in a professional, efficient, and safe manner. The LPN participates in performance improvement and research activities, maintains professional practice standards and clinical expertise, demonstrates leadership skills, and meets core and unit-specific competencies for the patient population served. The role delivers care within the LPN’s scope of practice to neonates, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and/or elderly patients, including patients experiencing infertility, cancer, high-risk pregnancy, or pregnancy loss. The LPN supports day-to-day patient flow for assigned Women's Health clinicians. Duties include medication administration, patient outreach and education, high-level disinfection and sterilization, phlebotomy including finger sticks, chaperoning during patient examinations, assisting with gynecologic and obstetric procedures, and collecting and processing specimens. Procedures may include PAP exams, LEEP, colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, pregnancy termination or miscarriage care, and amniocentesis. The LPN protects patient rights and confidentiality, privacy, respect, and dignity, and advocates for patient well-being while demonstrating sensitivity to the needs of female patients. The position is based at 3808 Union Street, Flushing, NY, and may require travel to other Women's Health OB/GYN locations in NYC and Westchester as needed, including Eastchester, Scarsdale, Bronx East, Kossuth, Brook Avenue, Hartsdale, Wakefield, Weiler, and Moses campuses. The schedule section lists part-time work on Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; the posting also states that weekend work may be required when covering a clinic that opens on weekends.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Current New York State LPN license and registration to practice as an LPN in New York State.
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS).
Phlebotomy skills.
Basic computer knowledge.
Effective written, oral, and interpersonal English communication skills.
Fluency in Mandarin.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 1 year of LPN experience is highly preferred.
Two to three years of experience in a hands-on patient-care role is preferred.
Ambulatory care setting experience is preferred.
OB/GYN experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform medication handling and administration in accordance with regulatory and institutional policies.
Assist with Joint Commission environmental and practice preparation and readiness initiatives.
Identify patient education needs and provide education using current practice guidelines.
Explain treatments, procedures, medications, and clinician instructions to patients and their families.
Conduct patient outreach in alignment with patient and departmental needs and goals.
Advocate for patients by listening, anticipating and responding to needs according to protocol, and escalating concerns as needed.
Monitor clinician progress and room patients using appropriate patient identification techniques.
Prepare patients for clinician visits by obtaining vital signs, verifying demographic information, and completing screening tools in the electronic medical record.
Assess the physical environment and prepare and maintain work and patient-care areas, including procedure instruments; assist with inventory, ordering, unpacking, and stocking supplies.
Communicate effectively with patients and report changes in their conditions to the Registered Nurse and/or physician.
Follow organizational infection-prevention standards and patient-safety goals; monitor equipment, supplies, and patient-care areas for unsafe conditions and ensure logs are updated according to protocol.
Identify learning needs, seek opportunities to address knowledge gaps, and attend mandatory educational sessions in person or online.
Maintain institutional logs, including those for abnormal results and laboratory, pathology, and cytology specimens, according to policy.
Provide care within scope of practice to the patient populations served and assist with the day-to-day flow of Women's Health patients, including phlebotomy, chaperoning, and assistance with gynecologic and obstetric procedures.