Clinical Nurse (Ambulatory Care)

About the role

This position may require temporarily relocation to other TONHC Facilities: Sells Hospital, Santa Rosa Health Center, San Simon Health Center, and San Xavier Health Center.

Responsibilities

• Assist the primary provider in gathering patient information for the initial health history of new patients.
• Conduct follow-up phone calls on behalf of the care team provider. Contact patient to discuss test results, complete referrals, changes in medications or care plan, and follow-up on self-management goals.
• Serves as primary contact/clinical liaison between referral hospitals, pharmacies, treatment facilities, and patients/families to ensure effective and appropriate treatment per established care plan.
• Triage patients on the team's panel call or walk in and assist or direct them as appropriate.
• Ensures the needs of the patient are met in a safe and timely manner with the available resources.
• Facilitates, schedules, and participates in various patient care coordination activities to provide patient and family personal and health care needs promptly; proactively identify alternative resources as needed.
• Maintains and updates the team's patient panels. Identifies, creates, & maintains panels of high-risk sub-populations for care management.
• Collects and reports clinical measures for a panel of patients.
• Facilitates performance improvement efforts through a multi-disciplinary health care team.
• Provides emergency care as needed to patients.
• Assesses and provides appropriate support in health promotion and disease prevention and treatment to patients with common chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, and tuberculosis.
• Initiates and follows up on patient needs for continuing care or related health services.
• Provides patient and family counseling, including telephone triage and counseling with proper documentation.
• Conducts nurse visits per standing orders and current orders in the patient's record.
• Checks stock of drugs, wound care supplies, linens, medical supplies, and other patient-related supplies necessary for day-to-day operations; advises appropriate staff of need.
• Works closely with other members of the health care team in developing patient care visit plans.
• Maintains patient records by completing thorough and accurate documentation of all patient encounters.
• Administers medications as prescribed by the primary physician or provider in compliance with policies.
• Led/coordinates pre-visit planning for scheduled patients.
• Aids in the clinical area by performing treatments and procedures.
• Participates in Quality Improvement teams and other committees as assigned.
• Acts in the absence of the supervisor.
• Performs other job duties as assigned.

Requirements

• One (1) year of experience in ambulatory care or clinic setting is preferred but not required.
• Must have an active, current, and unrestricted license as a professional nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
• Must have current certification in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
• Must have a current immunization statement to include proof of a non-reactive tuberculosis skin test within the last year, proof of immunity for hepatitis B (Documentation of immunization does not prove immunity, only a titer with a positive result is proof), within three months of hire.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Degree from a professional nursing program approved by the legally designated State-accrediting agency when the applicant completed the program.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of the Tohono O'odham culture, customs, and traditions.
• Knowledge of HIPAA-related rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of a full range of established nursing concepts, principles, and practices to perform professional assignments of moderate difficulty.
• Knowledge of the pharmacology of various drugs to include desired action, dosage, use, and potential adverse side effects.
• Ability to interpret illness to the patient, explain purpose and outcomes of therapies, and provide instruction in proper self-care techniques such as customer care, medication administration, insulin injection techniques.
• Knowledge and skill are necessary to conduct staff and patient/family education classes and participate in the hospital-wide in-service education program.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply professional nursing principles, procedures, and techniques to outpatients with a wide variety of conditions.
• Ability to provide individual and family counseling, guidance, and health instruction to help patients (and their families) understand how to prevent disease and maintain good health.
• Knowledge of professional nursing principles and procedures as applied in an outpatient setting.
• Knowledge of computer skills to utilize and document in the Electronic Health Record.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of the Tohono O'odham culture, customs, and traditions.
• Knowledge of HIPAA-related rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of a full range of established nursing concepts, principles, and practices to perform professional assignments of moderate difficulty.
• Knowledge of the pharmacology of various drugs to include desired action, dosage, use, and potential adverse side effects.
• Ability to interpret illness to the patient, explain purpose and outcomes of therapies, and provide instruction in proper self-care techniques such as customer care, medication administration, insulin injection techniques.
• Knowledge and skill are necessary to conduct staff and patient/family education classes and participate in the hospital-wide in-service education program.
• Knowledge of professional nursing principles and procedures as applied in an outpatient setting.
• Knowledge of computer skills to utilize and document in the Electronic Health Record.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Degree from a professional nursing program approved by the legally designated State-accrediting agency when the applicant completed the program.

Special Requirements

• One (1) year of experience in ambulatory care or clinic setting is preferred but not required.
• Must have an active, current, and unrestricted license as a professional nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
• Must have current certification in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
• Must have a current immunization statement to include proof of a non-reactive tuberculosis skin test within the last year, proof of immunity for hepatitis B (Documentation of immunization does not prove immunity, only a titer with a positive result is proof), within three months of hire.