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About the Role

Provides professional nursing care under supervision for assigned patients in the Ambulatory Care Center according to established standards and practices.

Responsibilities

• Patient care responsibilities are delivered with a knowledge of patient growth and development and are appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Screens patients (walk-in/telephone and schedule appointments) and makes appropriate referrals for services.
• Prepares charts for sessions and ensures all laboratory work and ancillary reports are entered.
• Documents all clinical transactions with patients on their charts.
• Assists medical staff with treatment and diagnostic procedures.
• Changes dressings that require sterile technique under the direction of a registered nurse or physician.
• Performs EKGs and venipuncture on adults and pediatric patients, labeling all tests and designating them to proper areas.
• Performs PPD implants and reads results.
• Administers injections (flu shots and immunizations).
• Monitors equipment and supplies for clinic sessions, assuring adequate quantities are available and reporting shortages.
• Provides and promotes a safe and clean environment for patients.
• Arranges laboratory tests and special clinic appointments according to physicians' orders.
• Answers patient questions and provides instructions on tests and procedures, attempting to reduce anxiety and fear.
• Performs patient care follow-ups, such as checking on broken appointments and confirming appointments or tests by telephone.
• Schedules patient appointments on the computerized system.
• Coordinates assignments to maintain patient flow throughout the clinic.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
• Reinforces patient education and teaching performed by RN or physician and documents educational efforts in patient's charts.
• Transcribes and carries out physicians' orders.
• Acts as a liaison for patients and their families, providing psychological support.
• Obtains specific visit type information or intake to prepare patients adequately for physician examinations.

Requirements

• Graduation from an approved Practical Nursing program.
• Current NYS licensure as an LPN required.
• BCLS certification required.
• Venipuncture skills required.
• Good computer skills required.
• Good oral communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Must speak, read, and write English to the extent required for the position.

Skills

• Venipuncture
• EKGs
• Computer skills
• Oral communication
• Interpersonal skills

Location

• Brooklyn

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 1 year of LPN experience in urology or ambulatory health facility preferred

Education Level

• Graduation from an approved Practical Nursing program
• NYS licensure as an LPN
• BCLS certification

Salary/Compensations

• USD $36.48 - USD $42.11 /Hr.

About the Company

• Maimonides Health is Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers.
• The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties.
• Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital) is a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital.
• Maimonides Children's Hospital is Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center.
• Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center.
• Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Equal Opportunity

• Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.