Outpatient Clinic Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

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Hours / Days:

* Monday - Friday; 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

* Part-time; 12 to 24 hours per week

Job Title: Outpatient Clinical Nurse (RN or LPN)

Department: Specialty Clinic

Reports To: Director of Outpatient Services

Positions Supervised: None

Position Summary: The primary duties and responsibilities of the Outpatient Services Nurse are to work collaboratively with the Outpatient Services team to coordinate consulting physician clinics, schedule patients for outpatient clinics and other outpatient services as appropriate, provide direct patient care, and perform nursing treatments in accordance with the applicable State of Nebraska nursing scope of practice.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required:

Performs Scheduling Functions:

• Schedules appointments for all specialty clinic and outpatient infusions.
• Coordinates scheduling of surgical patients and other outpatient services as needed. 
• Prepares rooms with equipment needed for visiting providers according to their specialty.  

Assessments of Patients:

• RN: performs assessments of patients as indicated
• LPN: assists in the assessments of patient as indicated
• Completes documentation as required in the EMR. 

Patient Education:

• RN: Provides patients education for pre/post procedure or treatment and plan of care, and documents education provided.
• LPN: Assist in providing educational documents to patients regarding their procedure or treatment and plan of care. 
• Collaborates with surgical and/or cardiac rehab staff to provide patients with education and preps required for their procedure.
• Assists with obtaining appropriate surgical order from the surgeon prior to the day of procedure. 

Assist and Perform Duties Assigned by Medical Provider:

• RN: Administers medications orally, subQ, IM, IV and per central line as prescribed by medical providers. 
• LPN: Administers medications orally, subQ, IM and IV as prescribed by medical providers.     
• Established priorities and organizes work for efficient delivery of patient care
• Demonstrates the ability to adapt to changes in   workload or patient assignments.

Computer Skills

• Generation of MAR, documentation of MAR.
• Patient admission – able to assist in admission and document steps of a patient admission according to policy.
• Patient Transfer – able to assist in the transfer of a patient in an emergent situation and correctly completes all required transfer paperwork according to EMTALA and KCHS policy.