Licensed Practical Nurse
Amherst, New York
LPN
Posted Aug 18
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- Permanent
- On the floor
- Precepting expected
- Practice
- MEDENT charting
- Setting
- Clinic
- Accepts
- LPN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in New York is $40/hr, across 878 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
This position works on a clinical operations team providing clinical support to our providers while ensuring our patients have a safe and positive experience.
Duties and Responsibilities
Work closely with clinical leadership to ensure smooth patient flow in the operational areas. Perform clinical duties in all areas including Express, Cast Room, and pods. Perform clinical duties such as the application and removal of casts, sutures, staples, braces.
Perform wound care and deliver patient education. Respond to triages as needed or assigned in accordance with standard operating procedures. Room patients, take vitals and history, update electronic medical chart as needed.
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Update and maintain patient medical records, including visit details, insurance and contact information. Service patient after visit with appropriate paperwork, schedule follow-up appointment, send out medical records as requested, and answer any patient inquiries. Maintain exam rooms to appropriate regulatory standards.
Audit new patient charts. Work as a team to replenish exam room and clinical supplies, including office supplies for designated area. Train others as needed or directed.
Perform other duties as assigned by manager.
Requirements and Qualifications
Valid NYS LPN License or ATC BOC certification. 2+ years experience in high volume medical office rooming patients preferred, but not required. Experience in wound care, casting highly preferred. EMR knowledge required, MEDENT preferred.
Physical Demands
Manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Corrected vision and hearing within normal range to observe and communicate with patients, providers, and staff. Frequent reaching, stooping, squatting, bending, kneeling, and crouching. Extensive standing and walking required. Occasional lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 pounds. Position requires full range of body motion including ability to position and move patients. Work environment may involve some exposure to hazards/physical risk.
The pay range for this position is determined based on several factors, including the candidate’s years of experience, qualifications, training, licenses, designations, and the overall market conditions.
This job description does not state or imply that the duties and responsibilities listed are the only ones required of this position. Team members in this role will be required to perform other job-related duties at the discretion of the employer and may have additional duties assigned as necessary.
Excelsior Orthopaedics and Buffalo Surgery Center are committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
Sourced from Excelsior Orthopaedics’ careers page.
Requirements
- Valid NYS LPN License or ATC BOC certification.
- 2+ years experience in high volume medical office rooming patients preferred, but not required.
- Experience in wound care, casting highly preferred.
- EMR knowledge required, MEDENT preferred.
- Physical Demands
- Manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
- Corrected vision and hearing within normal range to observe and communicate with patients, providers, and staff.
- Frequent reaching, stooping, squatting, bending, kneeling, and crouching.
- Extensive standing and walking required.
- Occasional lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 pounds.
- Position requires full range of body motion including ability to position and move patients.
- Work environment may involve some exposure to hazards/physical risk.
- The pay range for this position is determined based on several factors, including the candidate’s years of experience, qualifications, training, licenses, designations, and the overall market conditions.
- This job description does not state or imply that the duties and responsibilities listed are the only ones required of this position. Team members in this role will be required to perform other job-related duties at the discretion of the employer and may have additional duties assigned as necessary.
- Excelsior Orthopaedics and Buffalo Surgery Center are committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
Place
- City
- Amherst, New York
- State price level
- 8% above the national average
New York index 107.9, where 100 is the national average.
Amherst sits just outside Buffalo in Western New York, offering a quieter suburban pace with easy access to metro amenities. Home to the University at Buffalo's North Campus, it blends residential neighborhoods with nearby parks—a practical home base for nurses commuting into the Buffalo healthcare corridor.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities.
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You walk into a high-volume medical office in Amherst, New York. Your day runs across Express, the Cast Room, and the pods. You room and triage, apply and remove casts, take out sutures and staples, fit braces, do wound care,…
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