LPN - Admissions/intake Coordinator

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assesses patient care needs by gleaning hospital records and/or referral provided information for information necessary to determine the appropriateness of referral and to initiate patient records.
• Identifies educational needs for patients/significant others.
• Adheres to skilled service/homebound regulations of payers.
• Plans for patient care by ensuring that information regarding pending referrals is passed on to nursing supervisors, clinical supervisor or rehab services, and others as necessary in a timely manner.
• Coordinates with nursing supervisors, clinical supervisor or rehab services, and others in initiating care.
• Seeks appropriate orders in planning multidisciplinary care.
• Completes evaluation of care by reassessing patients systematically to identify progress and trends that require intervention; this may include seeing the rehospitalized patient and/or reviewing his/her record.
• Communicates with supervisor regarding the cases he/she is managing while awaiting the initiation of care.
• Assesses and discerns environmental factors which are hazardous and/or unsafe and responds according to policy and agency expectation.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

EXPERIENCE

• One year licensed practical nurse experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional driving.
• Rare crawling and running.