Medical Specialty Registered Nurse (PRN & Outpatient)

Primary Responsibilities

• Delivers high-quality, patient-centered care in a multidisciplinary outpatient environment.
• Supports Veterans in wellness and disease management through clinical expertise, care coordination, patient education, and procedural assistance.
• Works closely with physicians and other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Assesses patient needs and coordinates healthcare services to address urgent clinical situations, including escalating care and escorting Veterans to the Emergency Department when medically necessary.

Skills

• Collaborates with multiple specialty care providers in scheduling and providing care to Veterans.
• Implements the nursing process, including performing physical and psychosocial assessments, completing assessments in required timeframe, identifying priority needs, participating in interdisciplinary plan of care development, review, and revision, performing telephone triage, satisfying clinical performance measures, preparing patients for injections and minor procedures, assessing for subtle changes in patient’s condition, and taking appropriate action.
• Provides individualized patient/family and group education, including health promotion information.
• Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care in an outpatient clinic setting.
• Self-directed, reliable, and flexible, organized, and possesses excellent assessment skills to detect any abnormal reports and follow up accordingly.
• Maintains excellent customer service and effective communication skills to promote the team concept in the delivery of patient care.
• Responsible for patient assessments, medication administration, IV therapy, interdisciplinary team coordination, telemetry monitoring, admissions, discharges, internal and external transfers, delegating to assistive personnel, electronic medical records documentation, patient transport, and emergency response procedures.

About the Role

The Medical Specialty Registered Nurse (RN) works in a variety of specialty clinics at the Miami VAMC, including Dermatology, PM & R, Cardiology, Nephrology, CT/MRI, Neurology, Allergy, GYN, Pulmonary, Infectious Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Hematology-Oncology, and Hepatology. The role requires at least three (3) years of nursing experience within an outpatient setting, as well as experience in telemetry and acute care.

Requirements

• Licensure: Current, unrestricted RN license from any state in the United States.
• Certification: Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Experience: At least three (3) years nursing experience within an outpatient setting, as well as experience in telemetry and acute care.
• Education: ASN accepted; BSN preferred. Education must have been completed at a school accredited by the ACEN or CCNE.