Lead Clinical Nurse (Ambulatory Care)

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• Guides three or more employees and directs them to Ancillary Departments, other Nurses, and Health Care providers.
• Affirms and communicates the assignment, project, problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones, program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion.
• Aids in the formulation of nursing schedules.
• Trains or arranges for the training of team members in methods and techniques of team building and working in teams to complete tasks or projects and provides or arranges for specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishing individual and team tasks.
• Maintains the status and progress of work, checks on work in progress and reviews completed work to meet the supervisor's instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines, and quality.
• Prepares reports and maintains records of work accomplishments and administrative information, as required, and coordinates the supervisor's preparation, presentation, and communication of work-related information.
• Represents the team in dealings with the supervisor to obtain resources (e.g., computer hardware and software, overtime or compensatory time) and secures needed information or supervisor decisions on major work problems and issues that may arise.
• Reports to the supervisor periodically on team and individual work accomplishments, problems, progress in mastering tasks and work processes, and individual and team training needs.
• Assesses the patient and develops a plan of care for individual patients by interviewing the patient and family members, reviewing the patient's health record, determining and evaluating the kind of physical and health care needed.
• Collaborates with other professionals in developing a multidisciplinary approach to the provision of care.
• Observes and assess the patient's clinical condition. Collects and interprets data from the patient's history and physical assessment. In emergencies initiates specific nursing measures to ensure the wellbeing of the patient.
• Participates in the development, updating, and evaluating of standards of care and quality improvement monitoring.
• Captivates and supports the patient and their families with social, age-specific, emotional, educational, cultural, spiritual, and physical support.
• Maintains professional knowledge and proficiency in Ambulatory Care specific nursing knowledge and practice through continuing education to include: specific certifications as required by department, staff meeting, outside and in-house workshops attendance, especially mandatory training events.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

  Qualifications

  • Education: Degree or diploma from a professional nursing program approved by the legally designated State-accrediting agency at the time the applicant completed the program.
  • Registration: Applicants 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.
  • Experience: Two years of nursing experience working in an ambulatory care setting and knowledge of principles of leadership.
  • Licenses, Certifications, Special Requirements: Must have current certification in Healthcare 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 or a negative chest x-ray, 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. Upon recommendation for hire, a criminal background and a National FBI fingerprint check are required to determine suitability for employment, including a 39-month driving record. May require possessing and maintaining a valid driver's license (no DUIs or major traffic citations within the last three years).