Licensed Practical Nurse, Neurology

Site: Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation

 

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

 

The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.

Wentworth Health Partners Coastal Neurology Services has been providing adults and children with comprehensive and trusted care since 1983. Our board-certified physicians specialize in the prevention, diagnosis and management of an array of neurological disorders, including headaches, epilepsy, autism, ADHD, neuromuscular disease, neuropathy, sleep disorders, small-fiber polyneuropathy, stroke and more. Our Neurology practices are located at 10 Members Way in Dover, NH, and 73 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth, NH.

We are seeking a 40-hour LPN to join our Neurology team Monday through Friday 8:30am-5pm. This role begins with a 90-day, fully onsite training period in the Dover and Portsmouth offices, which includes hands-on shadowing and close collaboration with providers and nursing staff to build familiarity with workflows and patient care protocols. Following successful completion of training, the role transitions to a blended work schedule, with one scheduled day per week onsite and remaining workdays performed offsite.

The LPN will support our expert providers playing a key role in supporting patient care through administrative responsibilities. Daily tasks include managing in-basket messages through Patient Gateway, providing triage support, handling inbound and outbound phone calls, assisting with medication-related inquiries and refill requests, and conducting follow-up communication with patients. The role also involves significant computer-based work, requiring strong attention to detail and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

 

Job Summary

Under the supervision of a Nurse Manager, licensed clinical leader, or non-clinical practice manager – and in collaboration with other team members – provides direct and indirect patient care in accordance with the scope of practice.

Does this position require Patient Care? Yes

Essential Functions:

-Interviews patients about current problems, medications, and allergies, and reviews medical records for pertinent previous and current information.
-Measure and record patients' vital signs. Based on the chief complaint, the physician may also perform additional screening exams as needed, such as hearing, vision, depression, and falls assessments.
-Measure and record patients' vital signs, including height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
-Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as dressing wounds, treating bedsores, administering enemas or douches, applying alcohol rubs, massaging, performing catheterizations, administering routine immunizations, and/or providing nebulizer treatments and visual acuity tests.
-Participates in patient treatment regimen, including administering medications (under the supervision of a physician and registered nurse).
-Communicates post-visit findings and participates in the plan of care, in coordination with the appropriate clinical staff
-Performs a variety of office responsibilities: answers phones and takes messages, and performs triage within the scope of licensed practical nursing practice in an accurate and timely manner.
-Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
-Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
-Assist patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, transferring in bed, and standing and walking.

 

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