LPN - Clinic Operations

LPN Clinic Operations

To provide quality practical nursing care to all clinic patients under the direction of the provider staff as a population health nurse and nursing care provider in the primary care clinic and other clinics as they may be assigned. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals in providing patient care using approaches that recognize each one's expertise to meet the comprehensive needs of patients as they apply to general patient care and to ACO population management protocols and procedures.

Education Requirements: High school diploma or GED required. Graduate of an approved school of practical nursing.

Experience: At least two years of experience in direct healthcare provision as an LPN in a clinic or related organization preferred. Must have knowledge of general clinic operations. Community health experience is highly beneficial.

Certification/Licensure Requirements: Must hold a current Mississippi State Licensure as an LPN

Language/Communication Skills: English required. Multilingual capabilities enhance the ability to perform this job. Must have the ability to speak effectively and professionally to all staff, management, and all outside individuals at all levels from elementary to professional. Excellent phone skills in communicating clinical issues with patients.

Mathematical Skills: Skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers, fractions, and decimals without a calculator. Skills in performing operations with units such as cup, pint, and quart; inch, foot, yard; ounce and pounds. Knowledge of the metric system units (lengths, area, volume, capacity, mass and weight) and U.S. equivalents. Skill in computing ratios, rates and percentages.

Reasoning Ability: Must have the ability to apply non-judgmental reasoning capabilities whenever necessary when dealing with patients, visitors, and staff. Critical thinking skills are a must. Must have reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do. Must possess purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and considerations upon which that judgment is based. Must be detail oriented towards the application of clinic protocols, patient registry management and population health models to patient and patient families.