LPN/RN - Walk-In Clinic

McKenzie Health•Watford City, ND

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinic LPN/RN Nurse in our Rural Health Clinic and Specialty Clinic will provide care to patients at our fast-paced medical clinic. The successful candidate will handle monitoring patient health, providing treatments, administering medications, and assisting in educating patients on health maintenance and disease prevention. Additionally, the Clinic Nurse will collaborate closely with the medical staff to ensure quality care is provided to all patients. We are accepting both LPN and RN applications for this role.

Requirements

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Prolonged periods of standing, bending, and reaching.
Must be able to lift to seventy pounds at times.
Knowledge of professional nursing principles, techniques, basic sciences, and of community health and welfare resources.
Ability to apply professional nursing principles, techniques, and basic sciences in homes, clinics, and the community.
Ability to conduct written and oral instructions and to exercise judgment in the application of nursing care.
Ability to collaborate cooperatively with people and to support an objective attitude.
Ability to exercise tact and initiative.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Graduation from an accredited school of practical nursing.
Active unencumbered LPN or RN license with the ND Board of Nursing
Basic Life Support needed.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 1 year in clinic setting preferred but we Welcome New Graduates
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support preferred.

Responsibilities

Help with the management of patient flow and clinic operations.
Maintain correct and confidential patient records.
Support billing and insurance processes as needed.
Implement emergency protocols and provide life-saving interventions as needed.
Participates in analyzing and planning coordinated nursing services in an assigned area.
Provides nursing care to patients requiring professional nursing service; gives prescribed medications and other treatments.
Interprets care plans and shows proper procedures to licensed vocational nurses, nursing aides, and other staff.
Participates in coordinating total clinic services in the interest of the patient.
Provides for continuity of effective patient and family care by exchanging information and cooperating with workers of other community health and welfare agencies concerned such as hospitals, schools, and industries.
Helps patients in achieving healthy, safe living for all age groups by giving instructions and guidance in the basic principles relating to accident prevention, communicable disease control, nutrition, child growth and development, and physical and emotional fitness.
Aids individuals and families to accept and adjust positively to physical, mental, and social limitations.
Performs other duties as assigned specific to work area or specialty.
Performs other duties as assigned.
McKenzie Health reserves the right to assign, reassign, or eliminate duties and responsibilities as necessary.
The description of critical job features is not exhaustive and may change as deemed appropriate