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.
• Ensures the organization's strategic plan, mission vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, and work services.
• 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 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.
• Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress and reviewing 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 secure 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.
• Coordinates available resources to provide patient and family with social, age-specific, emotional, educational, cultural, spiritual, and physical support.
• Provides training in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and First Aid.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 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.
• Two years of nursing experience working in an ambulatory care setting and knowledge of principles of leadership.

Skills

• Knowledge of Tohono O'odham culture, customs, and traditions.
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, tribal laws, regulations, and requirements, including HCFA, Medicare, ALTCS, and AHCCCS.
• Knowledge of regulatory agencies' documentation requirements and ability to accurately and completely document clinical data.
• Knowledge of the application and use of cardiac monitoring equipment.
• Knowledge of nursing practice related to respiratory and circulatory emergencies.
• Knowledge of hospital policy and procedures relating to Infection Control and Quality Improvement.
• Knowledge of pharmacology of various medications and their therapeutic and adverse reactions.
• Knowledge of physical assessment, disease processes, and interventions.
• Knowledge of age-specific aspects of care.
• Knowledge of proper practice and procedures in emergencies, including the implementation of life-saving procedures.
• Knowledge of human behavior to provide counseling, guidance, and health instruction to create and maintain a positive healing experience for patients and their families.
• Knowledge of basic management techniques to provide guidance and leadership to other nursing personnel and develop a flexible, individualized, and comprehensive management plan.
• Knowledge of various cultures customs of different ethnic groups and the ability to incorporate and appreciate their efforts to deliver health care.
• Knowledge of statistical and research methods and applying them as needed to identify and solve problems not susceptible to other methods.
• Strong leadership skills and abilities, including the ability to motivate people toward the accomplishment of organizational goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of HIPAA-related rules and regulations.
• Ability to be compassionate and have good communication skills.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Ability to work independently and meet strict timelines.

Qualifications

• Current certification in Healthcare Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
• 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).