Outpatient LPN, Neuro Multiple Sclerosis

OhioHealth

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Join a compassionate, collaborative Neurology team dedicated to supporting patients with complex neurological conditions, including Multiple Sclerosis, throughout their long-term care journey. As an LPN, you'll play a meaningful role in building lasting relationships with patients while providing clinical support that helps them navigate treatment, manage symptoms, and coordinate their ongoing care. This is an ideal opportunity for an LPN who enjoys patient education, relationship building, and making a lasting impact in an outpatient specialty setting. In this role, you'll support physicians and registered nurses by rooming patients, assisting with clinic visits, coordinating care, responding to MyChart messages, triaging patient concerns within the LPN scope of practice, and helping facilitate prior authorizations, medication refills, and disability paperwork. You'll work closely with patients, providers and interdisciplinary team members to ensure a seamless care experience while helping patients access the treatments and resources they need. The ideal candidate is a compassionate, organized, and patient-focused LPN who thrives in a fast-paced ambulatory environment. Experience in neurology, chronic disease management, ambulatory care, case management support is preferred, along with strong communication, critical thinking, and teamwork skills. If you're passionate about providing exceptional care, developing long-term relationships with patients, and working alongside a multidisciplinary team committed to improving quality of life, we'd love to have you join us! This position provides nursing care to patients and families along the health illness continuum in diverse health care settings while collaborating with the health care team. The LPN is accountable for the practice of nursing as defined by the Ohio Board of Nursing. The LPN delegates nursing tasks to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs) using the criteria written in the Ohio Nurse Practice Act. This position serves as a resource for other associates. May communicate instructions, do minor scheduling, and inspect work. Does not hire, fire, discipline, promote, demote, transfer, or appraise, but may be consulted by higher management in these areas. This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

High School or GED (Required)
BLS - Basic Life Support - American Heart Association
LPN - Licensed Practical Nurse - National Council of State Boards of Nursing
Must hold a current license from the State of Ohio.
Successfully completed Ohio Board of Nursing approved medication course.
Basic Life support Provider

Nice To Haves

Experience in neurology
Chronic disease management experience
Ambulatory care experience
Case management support experience
Strong communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Teamwork skills

Responsibilities

Performs initial, ongoing and functional health status assessment as applicable to the population and/or individual.
Collects and documents initial and ongoing subjective and objective data from patients, significant others, and communities.
Reviews data obtained by other members of health care team and incorporates into assessment.
Identifies and communicates assessment findings, both initial and ongoing, to appropriate people via referrals, rounds, huddles, reports and care conference, etc.
Uses assessment data to identify pertinent nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems.
Collaborates assessment findings with providers and members of healthcare team as appropriate.
Uses scientific knowledge, Critical thinking skills, technical skills, and effective interpersonal and teaching skills to provide nursing care.
Based on nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, documents planned nursing interventions to achieve outcomes appropriate to patient needs including: age, size, and development stage.
Initiates and/or coordinates care plans and individualizes critical paths/medical management plans.
Promotes cost effective care by minimizing fragmentation, maximizing coordination and facilitating patient/family through the health care system.
Accountable for quality improvement and clinical outcomes and any other duties assigned.
Carries out and documents interventions to assist patient/community to achieve expected outcomes.
Uses scientific knowledge, critical thinking, technical skills, and effective interpersonal skills to provide direct patient care as needed.
Evaluates and documents response to nursing interventions and achievement of outcomes at appropriately determined intervals; as part of a multidisciplinary team, revises plan of care based on evaluative data.
Delegates tasks in accordance with specific criteria and state statutes.
Reviews work performed by those to whom it is delegated.
Coordinates continuity of care as indicated by patient/family/community needs and resources along health/wellness continuum in collaboration with other members of the health care team.
Participates in development of self, peers and others, e.g. MAs, nursing students.
Coaches other employees and provides feedback to others, as appropriate.
Actively participates in process improvement activities to achieve targeted measures of clinical quality, customer satisfaction, and financial performance.
Acts as patient advocate.
Participates and shares information from committees, research and self-development programs.
Communicates and participates appropriately in staff meetings, and collaborates with providers.
Manages resources including personnel, supplies and equipment to maintain a safe and efficient environment.
As a High Reliability Organization (HRO), responsibilities require focus on safety, quality and efficiency in performing job duties.
The job profile provides an overview of responsibilities and duties and is not intended to be an exhaustive list and is subject to change at any time