Registered Nurse - Per Diem

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN) at Martin’s Point Health Care, you will work collaboratively with all members of the care team to deliver world-class service to patients and staff. You will coordinate primary and specialty care services to ensure the highest quality of care while efficiently utilizing available resources. This role emphasizes excellent customer service, patient education, and creative problem-solving to improve patient care, satisfaction, and provider efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with internal providers, external specialty providers, community-based health care resources, urgent care centers, and/or hospitals to maintain continuity of patient care (e.g., care coordination, patient navigation).
• Prioritize and schedule specialty/primary care services to meet patient needs while maximizing available resources.
• Perform independent patient assessments to determine the level and urgency of specialty/primary care services, including walk-in visits and clinical triage using standard protocols for disposition.
• Maintain an adequate inventory of medical supplies, instruments, and equipment that meet quality and infection control standards within their area of support.
• Provide education regarding specialty diagnosis, lab results, procedures, medications, risk factor modifications, exercise prescriptions, and follow-up activities/care to patients and/or family members by phone, portal communication, or face-to-face.
• Coordinate with the team on patients identified with gaps in care and strategize on appropriate actions to facilitate closure.
• Partner collaboratively with providers, clinical support, patient service representatives, clinical quality specialist RNs, and population health nurses to support and improve quality outcomes, care navigation, and address gaps in care.
• Review upcoming scheduled appointments to identify chronic disease patients, analyze patient records for gaps in care, and take appropriate action to facilitate closure.
• Participate in daily huddles and regular team meetings to improve workflows and contribute to improving patient population outcomes.
• Receive day-to-day clinical direction from on-site RN Clinical Leads, Clinical Quality Specialists, Clinical Supervisors, or Clinical Manager.
• Triage telephone calls using clear triage protocols and standard protocols for disposition (e.g., schedule an appointment, refer to urgent/emergency room, or offer home advice).
• Communicate with patients in person, via telephone, or portal to assess patient needs using standard protocols to coordinate appropriate care and next steps.
• Contribute to health maintenance, wellness promotion, and disease management by aiding providers in the collection and review of patient-level data and assuming leadership roles in flu clinics and similar initiatives.
• Process documents such as prescription refills, DME orders, forms, specialist/facility reports, lab results, and telephone notes per protocol/guidelines as advised by the provider.
• Develop, implement, and follow up on nursing plans of care with reference to patient’s age, gender, culture, community and family resources, barriers, and readiness for adherence.
• Conduct nursing care visits for services such as injections, nebulizer treatments, chronic disease visits (e.g., diabetic care: insulin injection teaching, use of blood glucose monitor), coagulation therapy adherence, HIV risk reduction counseling, wound care, blood pressure monitoring, spirometry, peak flow testing, medication adherence counseling, and other procedures and interventions as appropriate.
• Perform point-of-care testing such as rapid COVID, flu, strep, RSV testing, POC blood glucose, urinalysis, A1C, pregnancy testing, urine drug screens, and random pill counts.
• Utilize appropriate PPE per protocol.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in nursing required.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.
• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse licensure in Maine.
• BLS required.
• ACLS required for Cardiac Nurse.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience; at least one year as a nurse responsible for independent decisions (e.g., inpatient medical/surgical experience, triage nurse, home health nurse, clinical specialist, or another subspecialty).

Abilities

• Demonstrates an understanding of and alignment with the mission and values of Martin’s Point.
• Demonstrates flexibility, creativity, and excellent communication between many disciplines to ensure continuity of patient care.
• Able to research and identify creative and effective solutions to patient, resource, or coordination issues.
• Proactively seeks clarification and solutions to process issues.
• Maintains complete and accurate documentation.
• Able to develop policies, procedures, and training on equipment.
• Acts as a specialty resource to others.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $36.54 – $45.14 per hour. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and other job-related considerations. Additional compensation, including incentive or commission-based programs, may apply where applicable and subject to the terms of the relevant plan.