Practice Clinical Triage Nurse - Concord Hospital, New London Primary Care New Hampshire

Responsibilities

• Establishes priorities in organizing daily activities and maintains efficient patient flow.
• Trairs patient phone calls following established guidelines and prescribed format for identifying patient's health problems or concerns, and providing quality patient care.
• Administers prescribed medications.
• Provides education to patients in response to identified patient needs.
• Documents health information, interventions, and outcomes into the patient electronic medical record.
• Delegates patient care activities using the five rights: right task, person, direction, circumstance, and supervision (ensuring the task has been completed satisfactorily and documentation is complete) and providing feedback to delegatee and manager.
• Applies principles of purposeful, organized thinking based on the nursing process to make sound clinical judgment and decisions.
• Completes practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to effectively and positively interact with a multi-disciplinary staff, patients, and others.

Qualifications

• Education: Minimum requirements: Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited School of Nursing.
• Certification, Registration & Licensure: Licensure required: New Hampshire Board of Nursing license; Certification required: Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification or Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers.

Skills

• Knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Ability to assess clinical data reflective of the patient's health status.
• Ability to interpret information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his/her age specific needs.
• Ability to engage in caring relationships with patients, families, and caregivers.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the health care team.
• Ability to use sound judgments while performing nursing interventions.
• Ability to complete practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.

Benefits

• Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
• The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is LIGHT.
• The employee is frequently exposed to bloodborne pathogens, bodily fluids.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne pathogens, electrical hazards - shock, toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Pay

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Schedule

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