Licensed Practical Nurse - Baltimore, MD

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:                              Licensed Practical Nurse

Work Location:                       Designated Territories in the state assigned

Department:                           Clinical

Reports To:                               Director, Clinical Services

FLSA:                                     Non-Exempt

PAY:                                           70,000 Salary

Who We Are: Purposeful, Progressive, Dynamic

Spiras Health is a value-based, nurse practitioner led clinical provider of care-at-home and other health-related services to individuals with complex and polychronic needs. Spiras’ comprehensive approach to care delivery includes a combination of home-based services, telehealth, and two-way digital communications. Proprietary predictive modeling identifies and assesses individuals with an elevated probability of avoidable costs. Spiras Health then develops actionable plans of care, addresses barriers including social determinants of health, and delivers high quality patient care in collaboration with the patient’s treating physicians. Spiras’ innovative multi-modal care approach delivers improved satisfaction and clinical metrics as well as financial savings to our partners, through a geographically and economically scalable delivery model. Our culture is anchored on a promise of full accountability and integrity in everything we do.

How We Serve

This position calls for a high performing clinician (Licensed Practical Nurse) who will become part of a Clinical Care Team, working in partnership with Nurse Practitioners. Together the team will manage the overall health of a defined population of patients in collaboration with the patient’s primary care and specialist physicians. You will serve your community, which includes daily traveling to patients’ homes based on risk levels, telephone calls, and texting. Meeting with patients in their homes affords you the opportunity to develop deep and rich relationships. 

This individual will understand and be comfortable with PC-based and mobile technology and have a deep commitment to exceptional patient care. A typical day may include home-based and telephonic patient clinical assessments, providing patient education, maintaining patient compliance to a treatment plan, connecting to community resources, conducting routine diagnostic tests, and charting assessments in Spiras systems. This is a personally and professionally rewarding position and it allows the colleague an opportunity to provide health care services at the top of their training. Each day includes seeing patients in the community.

Duties and Responsibilities

•  Conducts detailed patient assessment, including vital signs, monitors for changes in status, reports findings, contribute to and implements care plans, collaborates with Nurse Practitioner, provides patient education
• Helps patient accomplish treatment plan goals and identifies and seeks to resolve barriers to care
• Evaluates effects of treatment plan by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress and recommending adjustments and modifications
• Communicates with physicians, nurses, social workers, family, caregivers, and other health care workers
• Recommends assistive equipment and outpatient or home health follow-up programs
• Accurate and timely documentation of patient care and services per policy
• Always adheres to hygiene and safety standards (sanitizing surfaces, equipment, hands, etc.)
• Fosters a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families
• Consistently adhere to documented policies, procedures, and standards
• Clear and compliant documentation in an EMR/chart
• Other duties as assigned
• You will be joining a market team. You may be asked to cover any patient within this market and will be traveling to the patient's home, texting and calling for continued care coordination. However, your home territory will typically be a certain radius from your listed home address, but could include travel to other areas within the state. Standard scheduling procedures have been designed to limit driving time and increase our ability to provide patient care. 

Requirements

Qualifications

• Successful completion of LPN licensing program
• Minimum 2+ years of experience as an LPN
• Excellent knowledge of nursing care methods and procedures
• Excellent knowledge of emergency care
• Valid and active state nursing license
• Reliable and insured personal vehicle
• Current BLS for Healthcare Provider CPR or CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer certification 
• Experience with cardiac or pulmonology specialties
• Experience with advance directives and palliative care
• Experience with clinically complex geriatric patients
• Experience with polychronic conditions and chronic care management

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual (English / Spanish)
• Home Health experience

Skills Required: 

•  Strong communication skills with compassion and respect to engage patients
• Strong and concise verbal and written communicator
• Able to rapidly identify and gather required information to assess and care for patients 
• Comfortable working with patients that may have difficulty hearing, struggle with memory issues, or have a lower health care literacy level 
• Desire to collaborate with others
• Ability to think quickly and provide information with confidence and clarity
• Ability to manage competing priorities, organize work efficiently, and meet deadlines
• Perseverance and self-management to achieve defined objectives
• Confident working with EMR platform and mobile applications
• Strong technology skills
• Ability to work independently and autonomously
• Strong knowledge of chronic medical conditions are the keys to success in this role.  

Physical & Other Requirements:  

• This job operates in a remote professional environment free from noise and distraction. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers and phones.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. 
• This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.
• Reliable transportation
• Reliable home internet

EEOC STATEMENT: 

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation