LPN - Occupational Health - Evernorth - Dalton GA

LPN – Occ Health - Evernorth – Dalton GA

Evernorth Workplace Care offers health care delivery services along with population health and health coaching solutions, conducted in person.  Our mission is to deliver proactive, personalized, and holistic patient care and coaching by acting on health data and insights to improve the overall health and wellness of our clients’ employees, and those they care about most, by providing access to high quality, affordable services where they work and live.

Our Evernorth Workplace Care solution isn’t a one-size-fits-all model. Using data-driven insights, we’ll customize a solution that addresses your organization’s most pressing needs—creating a more affordable, predictable, and simple health care experience.

Evernorth Workplace Care - Personalized Care Where You Are 

Occupational Health Licensed Practical Nurse - Dalton GA

Sound like you? Great! Here’s more on how you’ll make a difference:

Major Duties:  Oversees and manage the administrative, clinical and operational nursing duties:

CARE COORDINATION:

• Support & Coordination of care for Onsite/Near-Site Model

• Coordinator for Community Resources: Collaborates for program development, including but not limited to onsite preventative services, primary care/specialist referrals for Employees

WORKER’S COMPENSATION:

• Case Management to facilitate Worker’s Comp process, facilitate referrals, assuring appropriate care, prescriptions, facilitate scheduling studies and return to work assessments

• Attend Plant Safety Meetings, review injuries

• Resource for Work Comp guidelines to injured employees

• Assists in documentation of Work Comp Injury for personnel

• Coordinates Work Comp Modified Duty with Client’s Supervisors & Safety

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE:

• Evaluation of all work injury Return to Works

• Responsibility for all Influenza Flu Events for respective facility

• Serve as Subject Matter Expert for development of programs and services as determined need by Collaborate with Environmental Health and Safety, Operations and Human Resources

• Educate employees Safe Work Environment and Prevention

• Coordinates Hearing Preservation Program with referrals to ENT as appropriate

• Coordinates Onsite Events, Mammography, Blood Drives and Monthly Health topics

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT:

• Evaluation and treat all injuries, illnesses and medical conditions in an efficient and professional manner within nursing scope of practice and guidelines

• Assisting in medical emergencies

• Taking vital signs, such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and weight

• Basic wound care including cleaning and bandaging injured areas

• Giving Immunizations under Physician Orders

• Support and Encourage Medical Management Plans of Patients—blood pressure checks; blood glucose checks

• Assist in coordinating Onsite EAP Counseling after an event and ongoing education

PREVENTION:

• Wellness Campaigns (every month) that covers every shift and breakroom

• Identification of Prevention and Health Opportunities

• Promotion of Immunizations 

• Attends monthly safety meetings

• Assists with Coaching programs, as needed

HEALTH COACHING

• Education of Prevention, Chronic Disease and Health Opportunities

• Initial Goal Setting to achieve improvement in health outcomes

• Steerage into Health & Wellness programs, including but not limited to pilots

ADMINISTRATIVE:  

• Responsible for all medical supplies for occupational office

• Assures compliance with regulatory requirements, CLIA & OSHA

• Charting within Electronic Health Record

Qualifications:

• Licensed Practical Nurse with active Nursing License, in respective state, in good standing and ability to maintain license

• At least 2 or more years of LPN experience

• CPR Certificate—American Heart Association or American Red Cross

• Electronic Health Record and computer skills required

• Ability to work clinic hours

Bonus points for:

• Knowledge/Experience of the manufacturing industry

• Knowledge/Experience with occupational health nursing

• Knowledge of recordable and non-recordable accidents