Registered Nurse Primary Care Glastonbury, ProHealth Physicians, part of Optum

About the role

Pursue your passion and potential with ProHealth Physicians, part of the Optum family of businesses. You’ll support the care team and its patients by providing and documenting nursing care, triaging patients, educating patients, carrying out standing orders, and answering and documenting patient phone calls.

Responsibilities

• Provide and document patient care such as giving injections and performing preventive screenings
• Triage patients according to approved protocols and consistent with appointment and scheduling guidelines
• Act as a member of the care team, including preparing patients to be seen by collecting and recording clinical information as per protocol
• Educate patients regarding their illness or injury and provide instruction regarding self-management of their condition
• Carry out standing orders (i.e., authorizing prescription refills and ordering tests) consistent with practice policies and procedures
• Document all patient interactions and other clinical activities accurately and in a timely manner in the electronic health record (EHR)
• As appropriate, conduct outreach to patients in need of appointments or other services, to communicate test results and other information, and to follow up after appointments to be sure patients are following their plan of care
• Answer and document patient phone calls; take complete messages and route to providers as needed using the EHR
• Maintain open lines of communications with care team and Regional Management team
• Support the Clinical Lead and act as a resource to the other clinical staff members
• Precept new clinical team members
• Monitor task buckets in order to respond to tasks in a timely manner, follow up on overdue orders/worklists and monitor status of critical referrals
• In coordination with Regional Nurse Managers, complete annual CLIA competencies

Requirements

• Active, unrestricted RN licensure in CT
• 1+ years of nursing experience
• Intermediate level of computer proficiency in Microsoft Office

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Experience working with Epic
• Experience working in a hospital or medical office

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes a range of offerings designed to support your well-being and financial security. These benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.

Pay

The hourly pay for this role will range from $28.94 to $51.63 per hour based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Schedule

Full time, 40 hours/weekly, Monday through Friday, hours between 8:30AM - 5:00PM