Responsibilities

The Licensed Practical Nurse, LPN, Grand View Health Primary Care Lederach serves the patients at Grand View practices, collaborating with patients and their primary care providers to ensure the delivery of quality, efficient and cost-effective healthcare services. The Licensed Practical Nurse, LPN, Grand View Health Primary Care Lederach is accountable for assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating care for patients served and collaborates with other members of the healthcare team to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

Essential Functions:

• Ensures physicians have information necessary to provide exceptional care.
• Greets, escorts and interviews patients and prepares exam rooms for physician.
• Reviews daily incoming office, enters into the EHR for physician reviews and follows up with office physician as necessary
• Utilization of computer to gather information, review patient data and schedule appointments.
• Review of medications and prescription requests, including notification of need for appointment.
• Coordinates appropriate laboratory and diagnostic testing.
• Takes accurate vital signs, which include, but are not limited to, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressures, height and weight. Must be able to enter efficiently into the computer system.
• Performs tests such as EKGs, PFTs, audio tests and vision tests and must set up any other tests requested by the physician.
• Communicates test results to the patient under the direction of the provider, as well as answering questions that the patient may have.
• Gives injections and performs venipuncture as needed.

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00am–5:00 pm, 1 evening per week and 1 Saturday morning per month.