Nurse RN I
Community Healthcare Network (CHN) is a not-for-profit organization providing more than 65,000 New Yorkers with primary and behavioral healthcare, dental, nutrition, wellness, and needed support services. Our network is made up of 14 federally qualified health centers throughout Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan, along with a fleet of mobile vans that bring health services to underserved people in need throughout New York City. We provide judgment-free, high-quality healthcare, without regard to race, religion, orientation, gender identity, immigration status or ability to pay. We turn no one away.
About the role
Assists the clinic clients in addressing health problems; executes physicians’ orders; diagnoses and treats human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health counseling and provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well being. Fulfills functions categorized as independent, interdependent and dependent.
Responsibilities
- Assists in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the nursing regime for all clinic patients/clients.
- Executes physicians’ orders using sound judgment and administers medication as prescribed.
- Conferences with physicians as necessary when in his/her professional judgment a prescribed medical regime needs interpretation and/or clarification.
- Records, reports and interprets nursing services and client’s responses.
- Collaborates with appropriate members of the health team to facilitate the highest quality of services.
- Participates in maintaining standards of nursing practice.
- Participates in interdisciplinary meetings, which influences or determines policies affecting nursing practice.
- Triage education of walk-in patients and performs venipuncture as necessary.
- Updates prenatal log book and follows up on abnormal labs and referrals as necessary.
- Orders medications