LPN, Primary Care Specialist
4 weeks ago
As a Primary Care LPN at Kaiser Permanente, you will be an integral part of our healthcare team, delivering high-quality patient care and support to clinicians and other healthcare team members. Your role will involve both direct and indirect patient care activities, requiring a range of nursing knowledge and skills. You will be responsible for providing nursing and administrative support, including preparing patients for office visits, performing clinical tasks and procedures, and utilizing standardized tools to identify and address health maintenance gaps. You will also contribute to the development and implementation of individualized patient plans of care under the direction of a clinician.
Essential Responsibilities:Clinical Tasks: These job tasks provide patient care and are to be performed competently, consistently, accurately and according to established regional/departmental clinical protocols, policies and procedures and standards. They are:
- Prepares and organizes patients office visit for known reason/procedure by ensuring that all appropriate tests, clinical information (e.g. diagnostic test results, consultation reports, outside reports, etc.) and order entries are ready for clinician review prior to appointment time.
- Performs focused/limited nursing assessment and triage on routine or self-limiting medical conditions as directed by RN/clinician.
- Recognizes when to defer to and/or assist with comprehensive assessment for complex medical conditions by RN/clinician.
- Utilizes standardized tools (e.g. PST, health maintenance alerts) to identify and address health maintenance/care gaps with patient and alerts clinician on those that require his/her attention.
- Recognizes signs and symptoms of common and routine medical conditions/illnesses, abnormal versus new/existing and implements planned nursing and medical interventions as delegated by RN/clinician.
- Contributes to the development, implementation or modification of the individualized patients plan of care under the direction of the RN/clinician.
- Prepares patient for actual visit/procedure prior to clinicians exam during rooming-in process.
- Assures exam/procedure room contains appropriate supplies, equipment, forms and educational materials are available and ready for use during visit/procedure.
- Checks equipment are in safe working order and cleans room after use.
- Provides health teaching/education or advice on routine or self-limiting medical conditions, procedures, tests, surgeries, self-injections, etc.
- Utilizes standardized tools to determine patients level of engagement in self-care as directed by RN.
- Uses KP HealthConnect and other information systems to document all pertinent data and outcomes of nursing care according to standardized procedures and policies such as and not limited to the use of SBAR, SOAP or APIE, KP HealthConnect smarttools, etc.
- Updates demographic/historical clinical data gathered in electronic medical record.
- Screening tests - e.g. vital signs, vision, hearing, developmental, LOPS, pain, etc.
- Diagnostic tests - e.g. urine dips and drug, spirometry/PFT, bladder scan, O2 saturation rate, allergy skin testing, treadmill assist, etc.
- Medication administration via oral, topical, otic, rectal, vaginal, IM, SubQ, intradermal, IV (includes insertion & d/c of peripheral line, use of pump), ophthalmic, bladder, inhalation and nasal routes.
- Wound care - e.g. routine and complex dressing changes, staple/suture removal, ostomy, drains management, etc.
- Therapies - e.g. photo, laser, foot care, etc.
- Application and/or removal of orthopedic appliances and other devices - e.g. splints, slings, orthotics, cast, crutch management, anti-embolic stockings measurement, procedural safety restraints, etc.
- Tube insertions/care - e.g. urinary catheterization, NG tube, suctioning, tracheotomy, etc.
- Minor surgical procedures assist - e.g. biopsies, excisions, insertion of devices, D&C, etc.
- Medical procedures assist - e.g. PAP, colonoscopies, sigmoidoscopies, colposcopies, joint aspirations, lumbar puncture, etc.
- Lab specimens collection and labeling - e.g. nasopharyngeal, wound, throat, etc.
- Irrigations - e.g. eye, ear, bladder, wound.
- Instrument/equipment set-up, cleaning and processing (sterile and non-sterile) - e.g. scopes, cryogun, O2 tank, procedural trays, etc.
- Ambulate/transfer of patient using lift equipment.
- Maintains and adjusts clinicians patient schedule for efficient patient that facilitate appointed visits and overbooks.
- Answers and responds to in-coming messages/requests via telephone, mail or kp.org from patient or other department(s) by collecting and communicating pertinent data requiring clinicians review and input.
- Responds to messages on routine medical concerns that can be addressed by giving advice or health instructions.
- Facilitates and completes follow-up duties on patients plan of care as directed by clinician to include but not limited to: processing of prescriptions and forms; reminder of screening/diagnostic tests that are due; scheduling/staging of procedures, tests, referrals, and/or return appointments; and obtaining and inputting patient data to monitor progress into the electronic medical record.
- Assists in coordinating patient care to support patient with complex health needs in navigating easily through the health care system as directed by clinician/RN.
- Sorts and prioritizes mail containing patient and/or clinical information requiring clinicians review and attention.
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