Description
UPMC Tri Rivers is hiring a full-time Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join their team in Slippery Rock, PA! In this position, you will work Monday-Friday during daylight hours. No evenings, weekends, or holidays required! Regular travel to our office in Cranberry, PA will be required.
**Sign-on Bonus**
Responsibilities:
- Draw blood.
- Comply with requirements of appropriate regulatory agencies (i.e. OSHA, CLIA, PA Department of Health).
- Administer medications including oral, SQ, IM and IV drip.
- Assist physicians with examinations, diagnostic procedures and treatments.
- Assess patient's general condition and take vital signs and weight.
- Comply with all policies and procedures.
- Document all activities/interventions, patient/family responses, medication dispensed/prescribed, etc., in the medical record.
- Maintain strict confidentiality related to medical records and other data.
- Promote wellness by providing patient education materials, communicating physician advice/instructions.
- Assists with completion of phone messages with clear and concise information, obtain authorizations and schedule testing as needed.
- Assists in prescreening and discharge of fluoroscopy procedure patients.
- Assists provider in back office clinical duties including rooming patients, taking vital signs and complete patient history, performs basic triage and assists with minor in office procedures. Instruct patients on general testing/procedure instruction.
- Selects and signs appropriate patient orders per provider verbal order.
- Review opioid contracts, prepare and collect specimen for urine drug screens and track results. Reviews and document data found in PA PDMP
- Assisting with phone messages
Qualifications
- Graduate of an approved LPN school of nursing.
- One year clinical experience preferred.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) OR Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- Act 33 with renewal
- Act 34 with renewal
- Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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