Licensed Practical Nurse

Maimonides Medical Center; New York (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn seeks an experienced Licensed Practical Nurse to support ambulatory care in our center. Under supervision you will provide direct patient care, assist with treatments, and help coordinate appointments and referrals to ensure smooth clinic flow.

The role requires a valid NYS LPN license, BCLS certification, and strong communication and teamwork skills. Join a leading teaching hospital that emphasizes patient-centered care and professional development.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an approved Practical Nursing program.
• Current NYS licensure as an LPN required.
• BCLS certification; venipuncture.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing care under supervision for ambulatory patients.
• Screen patients, schedule appointments, and refer to services as needed.
• Prepare charts and ensure lab and reports are filed.
• Document clinical transactions and support case management.
• Assist medical staff with treatment and diagnostic procedures.
• Perform EKGs and venipuncture; administer injections as required.
• Monitor equipment and ensure adequate supplies; maintain clean environment.
• Coordinate patient flow across the clinic and schedule follow-ups.
• Educate patients and document teaching in charts.

Skills

Computer skills

Oral communication

Interpersonal skills

English proficiency

Education

Practical Nursing program

NY State LPN licensure

Job description

About Us

We're Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Overview

Provides professional nursing care under supervision for assigned patients in the Ambulatory Care Center according to established standards and practices.

Responsibilities

• Patient care responsibilities are delivered with a knowledge of patient growth and development and are appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Screens (walk-in/telephone and schedule appointments) patients and makes the appropriate referral for services required.
• Prepares charts for sessions as assigned by Nurse Manager/Charge Nurse and assures that all laboratory work and ancillary reports are entered.
• Documents all clinical transactions with patient on patient's chart. Assists Nurse Manager/Charge Nurse with case management activities as assigned and documents actions taken.
• Assists medical staff with treatment and diagnostic procedures (e.g., urine catherterization, fixes slides for pap smears, hand instruments to physicians).
• Under the direction of a registered nurse or physician, changes dressings that require sterile technique.
• Performs EKGs and venipuncture on adults and pediatric patients. Labeling all tests and designating them to proper areas. Performs PPD implants and reads results. Administers injections (flu shots and immunizations).
• Monitors equipment and supplies for clinic session, assuring adequate quantities are available; reports shortages to Nursing Manager/Charge Nurse.
• Provides and promotes safe and clean environment for patients (e.g., prepares examining rooms between patient visits, performs light housekeeping duties during and after each clinic session).
• Arranges laboratory tests, special clinic appointments (Cardiac, GI, etc.) according to physicians orders.
• Answers patient questions and gives instructions on tests and procedures that are to be performed; attempts to reduce patient's anxiety and fear.
• Performs patient care follow ups (e.g. checking on broken appointments, confirming appointments or tests by telephone); documents action taken in patient's chart. Scheduling patient appointments on computerized system.
• Coordinates assignments to maintain patient flow throughout clinic.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
• Reinforces patient education and teaching performed by RN or physician and documents educational efforts in patient’s charts.
• Transcribes and carries out physicians orders.
• Acts as a liaison for patients and their families and/or significant others; provides psychological support.
• Appropriately obtains specific visit type information or intake in order to prepare patient adequately for physicians examination (i.e., vision test, urine pregnancy test, glucose monitoring).

Qualifications

Graduation from an approved Practical Nursing program.Current NYS licensure as an LPN required.BCLS certification; venipuncture; 1 year of LPN experience in urology or ambulatory health facility preferred. Good computer skills required. Good oral communication and interpersonal skills required. Speaks, reads, writes English required to the extent of the position. Bilingual Preferred.

Pay Range

USD $36.48 - USD $42.11 /Hr.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.