Pediatric Nurse

Duties and responsibilities

• Works in harmony with others, exhibits a positive attitude and commitment to the health center mission.
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively organize and prioritize work and utilize available resources to assist with efficient patient flow in the clinic.
• Actively assists with routine clinic tasks, utilizes established methods to ensure consistency in maintaining emergency supplies, stock medications, immunizations, forms, sterile instrument inventory, equipment, and appropriate exam room inventory, rooming and checking out patients, etc.
• Affords assistance in the orientation and education of new nursing employees.
• Utilizes the health center Performance Improvement processes in identifying the center needs related to any aspect of patient care and customer service.
• Maintains flexibility in work roles and schedules to meet the changing needs of the center.
• Maintains awareness of new information applicable to job, i.e. policies, meeting minutes, procedures, memos, and protocols.
• Utilizes slow time constructively to enhance center operations and assists other departments when time and workload permits.
• Maintains confidentiality of patients and staff.
• Actively pursues continuing education in order to improve job skills or performance.
• Identifies own areas of needed improvement, and formulates goals to work toward.
• Utilizes appropriate methods to deal with stressful situations.
• Supports organizational goals.
• Mets work schedules, fulfills responsibilities and commitments, i.e. attendance, punctuality, dependability, initiative, productivity and efficiency.
• Maintains professional appearance; follows established dress code.
• Accurately assesses current status as well as preventive health status and communicates needs to provider.
• Assists with patient education based on assessment of patient needs and clinic standards of nursing care and documents in patient record.
• Accurately performs skilled nursing care as demonstrated by safely and accurately performing technical skills (sterile dressings, EKGs, pulmonary treatments, etc.) and the safe, accurate administration of medications, IV fluids, and immunizations.
• Anticipates the needs of providers related to patient visits, and assists providers with patient care.
• Assumes role of advocate to ensure health needs are met including responding to patient phone messages and requests in a timely and professional manner.
• Documents all provider orders, nursing actions, and interventions on patient record consistent with health center guidelines.
• Affords assistance in triage patients on-site and via telephone for appropriateness and timeliness of care per approved triage protocols and standing orders.
• Knowledgeable of and follows all established Infection Control guidelines and OSHA standards and participates in staff training events.
• Exhibits caring qualities consistent with the values of the health center.
• Performs laboratory testing, including proper handling and labeling of all test samples according to health center policies and in compliance with CLIA guidelines.
• Keeps patients/families informed of situations that affect patient's clinic visit; i.e. extended waiting times, seeing provider other than originally scheduled, etc.
• Able to perform effectively and appropriately in emergency situations.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

• RN/LPN currently licensed to practice in the state of Kansas.
• Maintains current licensure, required training and credentialing.
• Consistent patient-centered, caring disposition is a must for this position.
• Knowledgeable of the scope of practice for nursing disciplines as described by the Nursing Practice Act.
• Current Basic Life Support certification.
• Age Specific Competencies: Infants through Adolescents, Age Specific Competencies - Adult.
• Experience in ambulatory care setting.
• Possesses strong clinical skills and competency in ambulatory care.
• Strong interest in working with an interdisciplinary health team and culturally diverse patient populations.

Working conditions

• Sits and walks throughout the day.
• May be exposed to infection and contagious diseases.
• Handles emergency or crisis situations.
• Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
• Requires dealing with unpleasant conflict situations.
• Requires working in close physical proximity to other people.

Physical requirements

• Requires repetitive physical and mental activities.
• Requires walking.
• Requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Requires bending or twisting.
• Requires standing for extended periods of time.

Details

• Hrs: M – F from 7:30 am – 6 pm as needed. Saturdays 8a-12p as needed.
• Shifts are generally 8 hours in length in clinic.
• Full-Time employees have an expected workweek of 40 hours.
• Part-Time employees will work hours as scheduled and agreed to by the supervisor.