JGH LPN MOB5 Ortho

WVU Medicine

About The Position

The LPN prepares charts and facilities for patient visits, assists with medical procedures, and establishes helpful, friendly relationships with patients. The role supports physicians and nurse practitioners in an orthopaedics setting and performs patient-care, clinic-preparation, testing, documentation, scheduling, and office duties.

Requirements

Current, unencumbered licensure with the West Virginia Board of Practical Nursing, or the appropriate state board where services will be provided, as a practical nurse; alternatively, current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
Current CPR certification.
Ability to meet the stated physical demands, 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 an LPN.

Responsibilities

Check examining rooms daily, cleaning and stocking them as needed.
Prepare patients for the physician, including weighing and measuring patients and performing tests as necessary.
Clean examining rooms after patient visits.
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 the 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 and tidy the entire work area, including waiting rooms.
Record laboratory, radiology, and other test results in patient charts and contact patients about results as necessary.
Collect urine drug screen specimens and complete the required 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.