LPN - Infusion at SSM Health

**It's more than a career, it's a calling**

OK-SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital - Oklahoma City

**Worker Type:**

Regular

**Job Highlights:**

****Sign on Bonus****

Looking for a LPN opportunity where patients come first and you are valued as a team member? This position is full time working as a LPNInfusion/Specialty at our Cancer Specialists of OK located at 56th & Portland. At SSM health, we know the healing power of presence begins with compassionate people like you.

**Daily Pay** : Get paid daily doing the work you love in a way that fits your life. At SSM Health St Anthony, we believe you deserve the flexibility to work a schedule that fits your life and to get paid when you need it.

****Sign on bonuses are for external qualified candidates. Internal candidates, please check with your recruiter to see what options are available for you.**

**Job Summary:**

Monitors and maintains regular contact with patients as identified by their physician. Performs pre-visit chart reviews and coordinates patient visits, consults, labs, x-rays, ancillary services, and community resources. Provides additional staffing support in the clinic, as needed.

**Job Responsibilities and Requirements:**

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Serves as a liaison for management staff, administration, physicians, managed care companies, and other customers.

+ Monitors and maintains regular contact with patients in the high-risk caseload as identified by physicians. Consults with a physician to determine the frequency of contact according to the patient's situation at the time.

+ Performs a pre-visit chart review on the high-risk caseload patients. Identifies labs to be done, prescriptions to be refilled, consultations that may be due, etc. and ascertains that all appropriate preventive care is being performed.

+ Coordinates outreach processes for the patients with care opportunities identified by a physician, including visits, consults, lab, x-rays, ancillary services, and appropriate community resources.

+ Serves as point of contact for all patients within the service to support discharge plan; medication review and schedule follow up appointments with the provider.

+ Educates patients about self-management tasks they can undertake to gain greater control of their health status and coordinates with physician and care team workflows to involve the patients in activities to improve their health.

+ Works with the practice leadership to implement evidence-based practice guidelines as outlined by clinic policies and providers.

+ Provides emergent staffing needs, e. g. room patients, schedule appointments, document patient encounters in EHR, etc. as directed.

+ Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

+ Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

+ Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing

EXPERIENCE

+ Two years licensed practical nurse experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

+ Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.

+ Constant standing and walking.

+ Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

+ Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.

+ Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

+ Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.

+ Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

+ Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

+ Occasional lifting/moving of patients.

+ Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

+ Occasional driving.

+ Rare crawling and running.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

State of Work Location: Illinois

+ Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)

State of Work Location: Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin

+ Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Issued by Compact State

**Licenses / Certifications:**

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Alabama Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Alaska Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - American Samoa Health Services Regulatory Board, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Arizona State Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Arkansas State Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - California Board of Registered Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Colorado Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Delaware Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - District of Columbia Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Florida Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Georgia Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Guam Board of Nurse Examiners, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Hawaii Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Idaho Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Illinois Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Indiana State Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Iowa Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Kansas State Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Kentucky Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Maryland Board of Nursing, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)