Job description

Improving Lives Together
Magruder Hospital offers competitive wages with a comprehensive benefit package available to both full-time and part-time employees. We provide a full health plan and generous time off that includes Holidays, Vacation, Sick, Personal, and even your Birthday! Our culture and family friendly work environment truly set us apart- apply today for an opportunity to join our team and help serve this great community!

The LPN is responsible for providing safe and effective nursing care to all patients utilizing the nursing process in all clinic areas under the supervision of physicians’, advanced practice providers, registered nurses and clinical services manager.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Rooming patients
• Obtains patient vitals, updates patient medication list, problem list and documents health history in electronic medical record system.
• Triage phone calls
• Makes appointments if necessary
• Documents phone call to patient in patient electronic chart and relays patients question or concerns to physician; as necessary.
• Returns calls to patients in a timely manner; provide information, results, or other medically pertinent information as directed by provider.
• Makes appointments/referrals for patients to specialist
• Provides written appointment information for patient in office, or phones patient with appointment information.
• Fax pertinent patient information to specialist’s office
• Documents appointment in patient electronic chart
• Documents referral in patient electronic chart
• Schedule tests for patients
• Provides education to patient about test
• Including test preparation, directions to test, hospital registration, duration of test
• When to expect test results

• Documents test information in patient electronic chart and for patient
• Verifies with insurance and obtain prior authorization for test
• Document prior authorization information in patient’s electronic chart
• Provide prior authorization documentation to Magruder Hospital
• Fax test order to testing facility. Ensure that fax was sent, and confirmed.

• Venipuncture
• Draws lab work in office, providing safe, efficient venipuncture at patient’s office visit and at scheduled nurse visits
• Logs all blood draws/specimens for hospital lab pick up.

• Insures that specimens are labeled and stored properly
• Demonstrates proficiency on an annual basis

• Performs lab testing in office
• Urinalysis
• PT/INR
• HgbA1c
• Glucometer
• Urine pregnancy test
• Rapid strep
• Influenza A&B
• Hemosure Fit Testing
• Documents lab results in patient electronic chart
• Documents lab results on flow sheet in lab
• Maintains and operates equipment to hospital lab standards
• Demonstrates proficiency on an annual basis
• Completes quality control testing on lab equipment per hospital lab standards
• Orders and maintains laboratory supplies

• Trained and proficient use in Magruder Hospital electronic medical record charting
• Able to retrieve emergency room notes and test results, specialists notes

• Performs EKG’s in office
• Gives immunizations to infants, children and adults
• Maintains separate immunization logs for insurance and VFC
• Maintains temperature documentation log for refrigerator and freezer containing immunizations
• Maintains current VIS (vaccine information sheets) and provides them to patients for all vaccines given
• Documents vaccines in patient chart
• Accesses IMPACT/state immunization website to obtain immunization records for patients

• Administers injections to patients as directed by physician
• Assists provider in minor surgical procedures
• Stocks and re-orders supplies needed for patient exam rooms, surgery rooms, and lab
• Stocks prescription drug samples in locked sample closet per hospital pharmacy guidelines
• Maintains log in/log out for prescription drug samples
• Pulls expired prescription drug samples from the shelves in a timely manner and disposes of them properly
• Assists pharmaceutical drug representatives in determining need for samples, obtaining physician signature

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• Schedules pharmaceutical rep meetings with providers, as requested

• Maintains and orders drugs needed for clinic use
• Maintains log for insulin samples and stocks insulin samples in refrigerator
• Maintains eye wash stations at sinks, and documents on flow sheets weekly
• Refills routine maintenance prescriptions as directed by physician
• Requests medication refills via EMR from physician or nurse practitioner
• Faxes completed documents as directed by physician
• Assists patients with prescription drug assistance programs
• This includes paperwork, faxing, phone calls and delivery of medications to our office

• Attends educational meetings at the hospital
• Completes annual online classroom training and testing
• Attends staff meetings
• Assists in peer interviewing
• Works in other offices and with other physicians as needed
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions; ensures compliance with Joint Commission and other external and internal regulatory agencies.
• Maintains the integrity of confidential patient information in accordance with HIPAA and hospital policy, including accessing, using and disclosing patient information relevant to the individual employee’s job duties. Also maintains confidentiality of other customer and hospital business affairs.
• Adheres to the standards of Magruder Hospital’s corporate compliance policies and seeks guidance and training when necessary to resolve questions about the policies. Reports violations in accordance with corporate compliance and organizational standards.
• Attendance is an essential function of this position. Reports to work on time and as scheduled; Shows respect for co-workers by following established break times; Keeps personal conversations and telephone calls to a minimum.
• Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected.
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
• Other duties as requested or assigned.

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent with current LPN licensure in the State of Ohio from an accredited school of nursing.
• Skill in reading and following written and oral medical orders.
• Skill in initiating appropriate emergency procedures.
• Skill in handling a number of tasks simultaneously.
• Skill in performing blood draws.
• Ability to use manual dexterity to perform medical treatments.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers and diverse patient populations.
• Ability to perform mathematical calculations for drug dosages.
• Minimum 1 year of LPN experience.

Magruder Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class under the law.

Magruder Hospital is a Tobacco and Drug Free Workplace. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment drug screening, including screening for the presence of nicotine, satisfactory completion of background verification, and the results of a post-offer medical and physical examination.

Job Type: Full-time

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