Registered Nurse - Ambulatory (OB/GYN)

Job Responsibility

• Conducts patient interview, explains policies and procedures to patient/ significant others, reviews patient’s chart and answers questions correctly and courteously;
• Affirms gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and neurological health status;
• Determines mobility, sensory deficits, prostheses use, and skin condition and adjusts plan of care, as appropriate;
• Communicates and documents patient’s physiologic health status and plan of care;
• Affirms patient’s psychosocial health status;
• Elicits perception of medical/nursing care and the expectation of care;
• Determines coping mechanism, knowledge level, and ability to comprehend;
• Identifies cultural/ethnic requirements to reduce anxiety and ensure patient satisfaction;
• Communicates and documents psychological status and care plan of support groups, counseling services, and social services;
• Identifies patient outcome;
• Develops patient outcome statement(s) and establishes individualized patient goals;
• Identifies care activities and establishes the priorities necessary to achieve expected outcome;
• Collaborates with physicians and other health team members in coordinating and implementing procedures and treatments.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing;
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, preferred;
• Enrolled in an accredited BSN program within two (2) years and obtain a BSN Degree within five (5) years of job entry date;
• Current License to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State required, plus specialized certifications as needed;
• Previous experience in Labor and Delivery, Antepartum, OB/GYN highly preferred.

Qualifications

• Accurately interprets and implements treatment regimen as prescribed by the Physician;
• Assists the Physician during treatments and/or diagnostic procedures;
• Keeps Patient Care Manager/designee and/or physician, abreast of changes in patient’s condition and/or treatments, as appropriate;
• Uses clinical judgment in delegating assignments in providing patient care, and ensures that assignments are completed in a timely fashion.

Skills

• Leadership skills/clinical judgment in coordinating patient care and directing/delegating activities of the patient care unit team;
• Ability to measure effectiveness of care provided and documents same;
• Performs variance analysis related to outcome data for performance improvement;
• Designs, implements, and evaluates systems to improve care in unit;
• Administers medications correctly and safely;
• Participates in patient and family education;
• Provides patient with an explanation of his/her condition as indicated;
• Communicates assessment data in an orderly fashion by recording, updating and verbalizing pertinent information to care team members and to appropriate agencies;
• Recognizes and utilizes health teaching opportunities and resources /materials available for this teaching;
• Provides for early discharge planning and appropriate referrals for post-hospital care;
• Evaluates the effectiveness of teaching by feedback from patient/ family and documents same.

Benefits

• Salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.

Pay

Salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.

Schedule

Not specified.