Family Practice Center PC has a full or part-time home LPN position now available! If you are looking for a work from home position, this could be the nursing position for you!
Candidate must live in Central Pennsylvania. Below is a listing of the qualifications and job description!
If you are interested, please send your resume today!
Job Title: Home Team Nurse
Qualifications:
- Education: Graduate of accredited school of nursing
- Certification/Licensure: Valid, current Pennsylvania state license to practice professional/practical nursing
- Experience: Previous experience in a clinic setting preferred
- Alternative to minimum qualifications: None
General Summary of Duties:
- Provides professional nursing care under supervision for clinic patients in Transition of Care (TOC)
- triage communications between providers, patients, and office staff
- address documents and update patient electronic health records and providers appropriately
Supervision Received: Reports directly
Nursing Administration Supervision Exercised: None
Typical Physical Demands:
- Requires vision correctable to 20/20 and hearing to normal range
- The ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time
Typical Working Condition:
- Computer and telephonic communication with patients, providers, and office staff
Expectations of Position – to include but not limited to:
- This job requires access to PHI
- HIPAA training is required and HIPAA compliance is expected
- Follow procedures according to OSHA
- Follow procedures according to FPC protocol
- Knowledge of the principals and skills needed for professional nursing to provide patient care and treatment
- Knowledge of examination, diagnostic and treatment room procedures
- Knowledge of medications and their effects on patients
- Knowledge of patient education principals to develop a self-care program
- Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish a safe work environment
- Skill in administering a variety of treatments and medications as directed
- Demonstrates ability to be confident, personable, self-motivated and function with tact and poise in all situations
- Demonstrates the capability of making rapid and clinically accurate decisions based on evidence based practice
- Demonstrates basic computer skills
- Skill in recording and writing reports
- Skills in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with patients, medical staff, employees and the general public
- Ability to maintain quality control standards
- Ability to recognize problems and recommend solutions
- Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations
- Ability to interpret, adapt and apply guidelines and procedures
- Ability to communicate clearly
- Ability to follow oral and written directions
Examples of Duties – to include but not limited to:
- Performs general nursing assessment of patients
- Reinforces prescribed medication regimes and treatments in accordance with nursing standards
- Observes, records and reports patient’s condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to the physician
- Schedules appointments and ensures preferences are given to patients in emergency situations
- Screens patients for appropriate information
- Instructs patients in collection of samples and tests as necessary
- Coordinates patient care with other providers, case managers, and ancillary services
- Responds to and directs incoming phone calls
- Instructs patient and family regarding medication and treatment instruction
- Instructs patients in self-care programs and participates in all aspects of patient education
- Updates, reviews and prepares patient charts
- Attends required meetings and participates in committees as requested
- Participates in professional development activities and maintains professional affiliations
- Maintains patient confidentiality
- Performs related work as required following all established company protocols
- Responsible for improving the overall quality and completeness of clinical documentation
- Ensures the accuracy and completeness of clinical information used for measuring and reporting physician and medical center outcomes
- Educates members of the health care team on an ongoing basis
- Outstanding written, verbal, telephone and interpersonal communication skills including time management and prioritization of tasks
- Integrate professional nursing theory into telehealth and onsite nursing practice to effectively manage patients over the phone, in the home or community; utilize judgment and best practice decision-making skills in telehealth nursing