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SalaryResponsible for receiving patients, determines their needs and directs them accordingly. Performs optimal ambulatory health care to patients; stocks and maintains exam rooms and nurse’s station.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Plans and manages patient care according to each patient’s needs.
- Interviews patients and records their medical history and physical condition.
- Provides routine care for patients.
- Patient education
- Observes patients’ health.
- Reviews medical charts.
- Communicates with patients and their families.
- Prepares specimens for lab courier.
- Provides Pre and post-operative care
- Fracture care - Casting, splinting, and wound care (Use of Cast-Saw, Auto-Clave, and medical instruments)
- Application of DME
- Prepares and administers injections.
- Assists with patient comfort.
- Maintains medical supplies inventory and performing preventive maintenance to keep medical equipment operating.
- Counsels patients by transmitting physician’s orders and medications refills to pharmacy and progress notes to insurance for prior authorizations.
- Schedules procedures/imaging; verifying times with patients; and preparing charts and pre-admission and consent forms. Calls instrumentation representative for Internal fixation devices for surgery.
- Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
- Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, letting manager know when low, and verifying receipt.
- Serves and protects the practice by adhering to professional standards; facility policies and procedures; and federal, state, and local requirements.
- Answers phone and returns calls in a timely manner
Education: Vocational/Technical degree in Practical Nursing required.
License/Certification: Louisiana state LPN license and CPR required.
