Practice Registered Nurse Internal Medicine 4 days week

Schedule

Hours will be no holidays, no weekends and Monday through Friday 8:15 am–5:15 pm.

About the role

Reporting to the Clinical Leader or Clinical Manager and under the direction of the practice providers, the Clinical Practice Nurse 1 delivers high quality patient care including assessment, treatment, planning, and care evaluation. The Clinical Practice Nurse 1 uses knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses clinical data reflective of the patient's health status and interprets information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his/her age specific needs. The Clinical Practice Nurse 1 engages in caring relationships with patients, families, and caregivers, works collaboratively with the health care team, and uses sound judgments while performing nursing interventions.

Qualifications

Education

• Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited School of Nursing (minimum requirement)

Certification & Licensure

• Current New Hampshire Board of Nursing license
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification or Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers certification

Experience

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

Responsibilities

• Establishes priorities in organizing daily activities and maintains efficient patient flow
• Triages 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

Physical Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Material Handling Classification: LIGHT (Dictionary of Occupational Titles)
• Lifting/Carrying/Pushing/Pulling: Regularly less than 10 lb; frequently up to 10 lb; occasionally up to 20 lb
• Regularly required: repetitive motion, hearing, speaking
• Frequently required: bending, fine motor manipulation, reaching, sitting, standing, walking
• Occasionally required: climbing, kneeling, smelling, squatting
• Vision abilities: color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, peripheral vision
• Exposure: frequently exposed to bloodborne pathogens and bodily fluids; occasionally exposed to airborne pathogens, electrical shock hazards, toxic or caustic chemicals
• Noise level: usually quiet