LPN Orthopedics - $10k SOB

External Community Memorial Hospital•Hamilton, NY

9d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves assisting patients in achieving their health goals through a prescribed plan of care, ensuring patient advocacy by maintaining privacy, safety, and confidentiality. The position requires continuous learning and flexible adaptation to changing demands. Responsibilities include conducting pre-visit preparations, such as ensuring patients complete necessary paperwork and tests before appointments, and reviewing test results in team huddles. Environmental duties involve setting up instruments and equipment, maintaining infection control through cleaning, ordering and restocking supplies. Clinical duties encompass checking vital signs, preparing for physical examinations, verifying prescriptions, managing biohazard waste, performing laboratory procedures according to OSHA guidelines, CLIA-waived testing, venipunctures, specimen handling, EKG testing, administering injections, and monitoring medical supplies and medications. The role also includes participating effectively as a member of the healthcare team, treating all individuals with courtesy and respect, and providing constructive feedback. Financial responsibilities involve effective time management, participating in performance improvement activities, efficient resource utilization, prudent use of hospital property and supplies, and reviewing e-bills to capture all services performed. Health Information Management responsibilities include offering and receiving feedback for self-improvement and patient care quality, and consistently ensuring patient information privacy and confidentiality.

Requirements

LPN license
Orthopedics experience
Ability to flexibly respond to changing demands.
Knowledge of OSHA guidelines.
Knowledge of CLIA-waived testing.
Ability to perform venipunctures.
Ability to handle specimens.
Ability to perform EKG testing.
Ability to administer injections.
Effective time management skills.
Ability to work as a member of a healthcare team.
Ability to maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Community Memorial Hospital's systems and protocols.

Responsibilities

Assists the patient in the achievement of identified goals by carrying out the prescribed plan of care.
Demonstrates patient advocacy by assuring a patient's right to privacy, safety and confidentiality.
Maintains current knowledge and skills by participating in relevant educational and training programs.
Ability to flexibly respond to changing demands.
Conducts pre-visit preparations.
Reviews test results before the visit in the team huddle.
Meets environmental responsibilities as assigned that may include setting up instruments and equipment according to department protocols; cleaning exam/procedure rooms, instruments, and equipment between patient visits to maintain infection control; ordering, sorting, storing supplies; and restocking exam/procedure rooms.
Fulfills clinical responsibilities, which include checking vital signs; physical examination preparations; prescription verifications with physician’s orders; biohazard waste disposal and monitoring; laboratory procedures including Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines; quality control methods; CLIA-waived testing; venipunctures; specimen handling such as urine, aspirations; EKG testing; completing lab draws; emergency first aid; administering injections
Monitor medical/injection supplies, DME equipment, medication and laboratory supplies, coordinating with CMH hospital departments as appropriate
Participates effectively as a member of the healthcare team.
Treats patients, families, visitors and co-workers with courtesy and respect.
Provides direct constructive feedback to colleagues as appropriate.
Demonstrates effective time management skills
Participates in performance improvement activities by identifying opportunities for improvement, offering solutions and supporting changes.
Uses resources efficiently.
Utilizes Community Memorial Hospital's property and supplies appropriately and prudently to maximize cost effectiveness of procedures, conserve resources and minimize waste
Reviews e-bills and captures all services performed
Offers and receives feedback on own performance and on the quality of patient care delivered.
Uses feedback to improve practice and patient care.
Consistently ensures that patient information is kept private and confidential.