Licensed Practical Nurse Clinic- Casual

Alomere Health; Alexandria, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Alomere Health's Alexandria Clinic Nursing unit is seeking an LPN or CMA to support a Provider in outpatient care. The position is casual with a minimum of 8 hours per month, offering clinic nursing hours across Weekdays and Weekends with typical 4, 8, and 12 hour blocks.

The role includes injections, immunizations, medication administration, EMR documentation, patient coordination, and charges submission under the direction of a Registered Nurse or Provider.

Responsibilities

• Meet, maintain, and follow Meaningful Use, PQRS, MN community Measures requirements and other quality initiatives
• Ensure efficient and accurate patient care coordination
• Prepare and administer injections, immunizations, and medications
• Submit appropriate charges for services rendered
• Process patients' charts upon admission and discharge
• Complete thorough documentation of patient interactions in the EMR
• Improve patient experience and patient flow within Alomere Health
• Assist in emergent situations using crash cart and defibrillator resources
• Respond to patient and visitor requests, complaints, and recommendations

Job description

Department: Alexandria Clinic Nursing

Employment Status: Casual- Required to work a minimum of 8 hours/month

Hours:

• Clinic Nursing Hours- Any Available Hours

• Weekdays: 0705-2000 Weekends: 0830-1530

• Typical shifts range from blocks of 4, 8, and 12 hours

Position Objective:

The LPN/CMA supports the Provider in provision of individualized patient care, direct and indirect in an outpatient clinical setting. LPN/CMAs participate in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care, based on objectives, standards, and policies of nursing. They have the ability to handle a diverse range of situations and responsibilities, which is their primary duty. LPN/CMAs are responsible for rendering nursing care in an assigned area in terms of individualized patient needs, according to conformance with recognized nursing techniques, procedures, and established standards based on the scope of practice, under the direction/delegation of a Registered Nurse or Provider.

Essential Responsibilities:

The following description of responsibilities to be performed is not intended to be all-inclusive. Rather, it focuses on the major tasks that must be accomplished.

Nursing Service Delivery:

• Meet, maintain, and follow Meaningful Use, PQRS, MN community Measures requirements, and other quality initiatives
• Adequate knowledge of Provider practice type
• Ensure efficient and accurate patient care coordination
• Perform all tasks per Provider order within scope of practice or specialty training
• Work in accordance of primary Providers' clinic schedule
• Possess prior authorization of medications

Alexandria Clinic Specific:

• Prepare and administer injections, immunizations, and medications
• Administer treatments as prescribed by Provider
• Submit appropriate charges for services rendered
• Process patients' charts upon admission and discharge
• Collect and handle all specimens appropriately

Patient Care:

• Facilitate communication in regards to patient care between patient and Provider and work to be a patient advocate at all times

• Complete thorough documentation of all patient interactions in the electronic medical record
• Improve the patient experience and improve patient flow within Alomere Health
• Effectively communicate with patients, families, and those involved in the patients' care
• Assist in emergent situations, using knowledge and skill of crash cart and defibrillator resources
• Respond to patient and visitor requests, complaints, and recommendations

Specialty Practice:

• Employees working in specialty areas will be required to perform procedures specific to that specialty

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform all other related duties as assigned in a professional and responsive manner
• Demonstrate the ability to use relevant equipment
• Support, understand, and promote Alomere Health's mission, vision, values, policies and procedures
• Ability to meet the work schedule requirements with flexibility dependent upon the needs of the department
• Foster respectful working relationships with professional colleagues, patients, families, and general public regardless of age, gender, lifestyle, culture, beliefs, race, socioeconomic class, or ability