Description
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care of patients.
The Clinic RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members in an outpatient clinic setting.
Clinic RNs are pivotal members of the care delivery team headed by the physician and have specialized knowledge, skills, and ability pertinent to ambulatory care patient needs.
Scope of performance includes prioritization and triage of care delivery, implementing established standing orders and protocols, performing procedures and therapies consistent with training and licensure.
Job Essentials
- Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status.
- Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
- Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate.
- Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction.
- Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participates in development of others.
Minimum Qualifications
- Current RN License in state of practice.
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
- Practice-specific certification as required by the clinical setting in which they work.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Preferred Qualifications
- RN with primary care experience preferred.
- Proficient in IVs, triaging, and wound care preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.
Work Environment
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment, and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.
- Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment.
Benefits
- Benefits eligible.
- Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Schedule
- Full-time (40 budgeted hours).
- 4 10-hour shifts per week.
- Schedule is TBD.
Salary
- $35.22 - $53.29 per hour.