The LPN will support the mission of the Ozarks Community Health Center. Our mission is to provide greater access to quality, compassionate, and professional healthcare through our comprehensive health system and community partnerships. Education & Training
High School Diploma or equivalent with on the job training and demonstration of competency
Must pass annual competencies
Licensure & Certifications
LPN or other licensed professional required
Healthcare Provider CPR within 6 months of employment
HazMat Awareness (Extended) within 3 months, renewed annually
Experience
Health care experience preferred
Job Responsibilities

Takes vital signs and documents all information correctly.
Gathers and documents initial patient subjective date, reason for visit, and uses correct template for visit.
Reviews, corrects, and updates all clinical medical information.
Ask all pertinent questions for quality measures as required and documents correctly to ensure quality QI data.
Promptly assists provider in patient care as requested (shots, x-rays, lab)
All patient exam/procedure rooms are cleaning in compliance with OCHC Infection Control policy and in a timely manner.
Stocks rooms and pulls expired supplies.
Maintains inventory of supplies need for duties.
Receives and handles patients’ medical related telephone calls, relaying information to patients/ others as directed by provider, documenting in the medical record information relayed.
Obtains consent for procedures when rooming, sets out all supplies needed, returns to room for clean-up promptly.
Answers the nurse line promptly and handles nurse only visits quickly and documents/completes notes in a timely manner.
Vaccine/shots are documented properly according to protocol.
Maintains competency on vaccine/shots per protocols.
Monitors assigned providers task list and completes in a timely manner.
Uses correct procedures for sterilizing instruments and ensures sufficient supplies are available for procedures.
Makes good use of downtime by completing open tasks for other providers, clean work areas, stock rooms and pulls expired supplies and meds, works downtime list.
Ensures EKG quality by using protocol and confirm test results interface in patients chart and reports issues to Clinic Manager or RN Nurse Educator.
Review and understand policies/protocols and adheres to them.
Ensures lab requisition is printed, verifies patients name and date of birth, draws all requested lab using correct tubes and ensures test are completed within time allotted.
Ensures lab results interface with EMR.
Works the Lab worklist daily to ensure all labs are processed/resulted and check on ones that are not completed.
Is responsible for reporting urgent/critical lab results to the provider and patient follow up in a timely manner.
Follow the Laboratory’s P/P for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results.
Performs and maintains records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples.
Adhere to the Laboratory’s quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
Follow the Laboratory’s established corrective action P/P whenever test systems are not within the Laboratory’s established acceptable levels of performance.
Completes all proficiency testing in lab to maintain the ability to work in OCHC’s labs.
Identifies problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results and corrects the problems or immediately notifies OCHC Laboratory personnel.
Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the Laboratory’s established performance specifications.
Reads and documents all temp logs in include; vaccine fridge/freezer, lab fridge and room temp.
Completes lab only visit in a timely manner with correct documentation including the ordering provider.
Completes x-rays according to the order and per over read protocol.
Ensures X-ray interface with chart.
Reviews x-rays on PAC’s machine and documents performed by.

Ozarks Community Hospital is a bi-state safety-net healthcare provider headquartered in Gravette, Arkansas, serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Ozarks. Our facilities include a hospital located in Gravette, Arkansas and a number of satellite clinics located in Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas. Our hospital offers a 25-bed inpatient and swing bed (skilled nursing) service, a 24-hour ER staffed with board-certified emergency physicians, and a number of other services, including: • Outpatient (Infusions/Transfusions, Geriatric Psych, Wound Care, Restorative Therapies) • Surgery (Endoscopy, General, ENT, Orthopedic, Dental, Podiatry (strike), Plastics) • Mental Health (Inpatient and Outpatient) • Therapy (PT, OT, Speech) • Cardiopulmonary and Sleep Lab • Diagnostic Imaging (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, X-ray) • Comprehensive Hospital & Reference Laboratory The OCH health system takes great pride in providing patients accredited Patient-Centered Medical Homes through a dozen rural health clinics and as part of a broader range of specialty services located in its two provider-based clinics in Gravette, Arkansas and Springfield, Missouri. Specialty clinic services include Pediatrics, Women’s Health, Diabetes Care, Hepatitis C, Urology, Geriatrics, Pain Management, and the FLAG (Fatty Liver and Goals) Clinic. OCH locations can accept Medicaid, Medicare, TriCare and most commercial insurances. Our Mission: Ozarks Community Hospital and clinics are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare and preventive services to all patients in an atmosphere of compassion, respect, and dignity, with a commitment to care for the underserved and to improve access to care.

LPN - Full Time

LPN - Full Time

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