RN - Clinic Nurse - Urgent Care Health Center
UAB Medicine · Birmingham, AL · 7 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
About the role
To provide and manage patient care, delivering care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation and evaluation including, but not limited to, interviewing, obtaining physicals, providing patient education, determining initial diagnosis and documentation. To effectively interact with patient, significant others and other healthcare team members while maintaining standards of professional nursing. To respond to the unique needs of all patients.
Responsibilities
- Deliver patient care using the nursing process
- Interview and obtain physicals from patients
- Provide patient education
- Determine initial diagnoses and document accordingly
- Interact effectively with patients, significant others, and healthcare team members
- Respond to the unique needs of all patients
Requirements
- Associate's degree in Nursing required
- Licensed or eligible to be licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the Alabama Board of Nursing required
- Current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification or must be obtained within thirty (30) days of employment required
Qualifications
- One year of clinical nursing experience, preferably in the same specialty preferred
Skills
- Self-directed / self-motivated
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Perform a variety of duties often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure
- Accept responsibility for the direction, control and planning of one’s own work
- Work independently
- Recognize the rights and responsibilities of patient confidentiality
- Congel empathy and compassion to those experiencing pain, physical or emotional distress and/or grief
- Relate to others in a manner which creates a sense of teamwork and cooperation
- Communicate effectively with people from every socioeconomic, cultural and educational background
- Exhibit flexibility and cope effectively in an ever-changing, fast-paced healthcare environment
- Perform effectively when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual or dangerous situations
- Demonstrate the quality work ethic of doing the right thing the right way
- Maintain a customer focus and strive to satisfy the customer's perceived needs
Benefits
- 100% tuition assistance
- Wellness initiatives
- Generous paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligible employer
- Plus more
Pay
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Schedule
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