Registered Nurse (FT)

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides complete patient assessment, including vital signs and pre-examination procedures.
• Gathers and assesses objective and subjective data from the patient.
• Documents data and assessments in the patient record.
• May use a computer system and information technology to ensure standard documentation, coding, and completion.
• Affords assistance to the providers in all aspects of the consultation, treatment, procedures, and follow-up care.
• Executes medical regimens and nursing interventions as appropriate for the setting and their competency.
• Patient health counseling and instruction, including meetings with families and caregivers.
• Medication reconciliation, management, patient compliance, inventory, education.
• Maintains medical supplies, inventory, and disposal.
• Ensures regulatory compliance with OSHA, CLIA, and HIPAA guidelines.
• The position may include triage of calls for urgent appointments, referrals for patient consults and testing, insurance pre-certification, and documentation.

Other Duties

• May use general office skills including keyboarding, office computer software, filing, answering telephones, email, faxing, copying.
• Excellent customer service skills are needed for interacting with patients, families, and caregivers.

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• RN with a current nursing license in state of practice.
• Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
• 1+ year of clinic nursing experience preferred.
• Current BLS certification through the American Heart Association valid for at least 90 days after start date.
• Certainly confident in venipuncture skills.
• Certified or willing to get certified in CAOHC and NIOSH PFT (Spirometry) prior to first day.
• Must be knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as state, federal requirements.