REGISTERED NURSE - Family Health Center of Harlem / Ali Forney

About the role

The Registered Nurse (RN) at Ali Forney Center provides and coordinates care for LGBTQ homeless youth ages 16-24 in an ambulatory care setting. Responsibilities include care coordination, access to PreP and PEP, and plans for patients aging out of care.

Responsibilities

• Care coordination with AFC staff
• Coordination of access to PreP and PEP
• Coordination of plans for patients aging out of care

Requirements

• Demonstrates ability to perform clinical/technical/service/administrative tasks
• Records, reports, and interprets clients' responses and collaborates with appropriate members of the health team
• Systematically and continuously assesses patient's physical, psychosocial, and spiritual health status and knowledge base
• Trades all sick and walk-in patients
• Establishes therapeutic and supportive relationships with patients and families
• Maintains an environment conducive to meeting patient care needs and facilitating patient flow
• Promotes and provides for patient safety in accordance with state and federal guidelines
• Practices and monitors infection control
• Maintains patient flow and reassigns staff as needed

Qualifications

• Education: AAS/BS in Nursing
• Experience: Minimum of one (1) year experience in an Ambulatory/Medical Surgery/ER setting preferred
• Bilingual, Spanish preferred
• Experience: Demonstrated ability to plan, make decisions, organize, and direct the work of others
• Nursing Experience: Minimum of two (2) years nursing experience
• Skills: Demonstrated ability to perform venipuncture and administer medications including immunizations, demonstrated clinical, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, demonstrated ability to problem solve using critical thinking, demonstrated basic computer skills including typing
• Licenses/Certifications: Licensed Registered Nurse in New York State, Current RN Registration Certificate, Current BCLS, Current Infection Control Certificate, Current Child Abuse Certificate

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel
• The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and talk or hear
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus