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  • 1.  LPN Role

    Posted 05-02-2023 10:15

    Ambulatory Colleagues,

     

    We are currently designing an LPN role in ambulatory services, and I am reconnecting with the AAACN community to see if anyone would be willing to share how the LPN functions in ambulatory areas, including Primary Care?

     

    Thanks much,

     

    Anne Mørk, MS, MHCDS, RN

    VP Ambulatory CNO & Nursing Support Services

    UW Health Madison, WI

    Cell: 608 215 3653

     



  • 2.  RE: LPN Role

    Posted 05-03-2023 08:04

    Our Primary Care service line has triage (all RN, all remote). We generally have LPNs on site with MAs assisting, but you'll notice the role has LPN/RN. In our area (eastern KS) LPNs are scarce and in order to have licensed staff on site we have added RNs on occasion. We do have a few remote LPN positions to assist the office teams with tasks that don't require being onsite. Our refill center role is not included here, but that workforce is entirely LPNs working remotely. We use Epic, so some of the wording corresponds to Epic workflows. 



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    Toni Wendling MSN, RN
    Manager, Informatics
    Stormont Vail Health
    Topeka KS
    (785)354-0558
    twendlin@stormontvail.orgAdministrative Director of Primary Care
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  • 3.  RE: LPN Role

    Posted 05-03-2023 10:44

    Hi Anne,

    We have LPNs in most of our outpatient specialty clinics and their role is heavily driven by scope of practice in our state. We use LPNs primarily as the nursing presence in clinic for medication administration, teaching, procedure assistance, etc. In my state LPNs are not able to follow protocols so we have RNs doing all refills in addition to their triage role. 



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    Brandy Williamson BSN RN CPN
    Ambulatory Nursing Manager
    Children's Healthcare-Atlanta
    Atlanta GA
    (404)785-8978
    brandy.williamson@choa.org
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  • 4.  RE: LPN Role

    Posted 05-03-2023 12:41
    Good Morning,
    LPNS are a valuable resource in our Primary Care Practices.  In addition to rooming and providing support for visits, the LPNS perform (and bill for) LPN visits within their scope.  Since we vaccinate children in schools, it is the LPNs who are able to perform this service outside of the Clinic, based on their license.  LPNs support procedures and help to resolve discrepancies with our medication renewal requests.

    Stephanie

    Stephanie G Witwer, Ph.D., RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
    Department of Nursing
    Emeritus Staff



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  • 5.  RE: LPN Role

    Posted 05-06-2023 14:30

    Hi Anne,

    We use our LPN's in the hemodialysis unit and in the pediatric clinics to administer vaccines and work under the supervision of an RN.



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    Sandhya Daniel
    Assistant Director of Nursing Professional Development
    Harlem Hospital
    New York NY
    (347)455-1716
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