LPN Triage Nurse
6 days ago
Tulsa
Job DescriptionLPN Triage Nurse – Women’s Health Clinic Tulsa, OK-Temp to Perm-$25/hour Monday-Friday 8am-5pm The LPN Triage Nurse serves as a primary point of contact for patients, delivering compassionate, professional, and timely clinical guidance in a women’s health setting. This role is responsible for assessing patient symptoms using established triage protocols, determining the appropriate level of care, and ensuring accurate, thorough documentation in the electronic health record. Key Responsibilities: • Respond to incoming triage calls within established timeframes, • Assess and triage patient symptoms using approved clinical guidelines, • Provide appropriate recommendations, including home care advice, scheduling appointments, or directing patients to urgent or emergency care as needed, • Collaborate with providers to determine the appropriate clinical course of action, • Accurately document all patient interactions, assessments, advice, and follow-up in the EHR, • Handle routine patient inquiries and communicate provider instructions to patients as directed, • Maintain HIPAA compliance and adhere to clinic policies and procedures, • Communicate professionally and empathetically with patients, families, and staff, • Remain calm and effective in high-stress or urgent situations, • Active LPN license (required), • Minimum of 2 years of direct patient care experience, preferably in an ambulatory or women’s health setting, • At least 1 year of phone triage experience preferred, • Strong clinical judgment, communication, and multitasking skills, • Pay rate approximately $25/hour, based on experience #HP TRINITY EMPLOYMENT SPECIALISTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER See the great things people are saying by checking out our Google reviews, along with our Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, X/Twitter.Please visit theCareer Centeron our website for some helpful resources to help in your job search, to build a resume, for interview tips and many job opportunities! At least two years of direct patient care focused on women's health • Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required., • Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action., • Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration., • Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts., • Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations., • Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them., • Supervise nurses' aides or assistants., • Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary., • Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions., • Record food and fluid intake and output., • Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers., • Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples., • Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet., • Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking., • Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures., • Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles., • Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks., • Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants., • Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments., • Clean rooms and make beds., • Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons., • Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms., • Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics., • Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.