RN - OUTPATIENT

Department: Transfer Center • FTE: 0.90 Full Time • Shift: Nights

About the role

Provide safe, direct patient care utilizing the nursing process in the ambulatory setting. Provide clinical leadership and mentorship to staff, serve as a role model, and deliver comprehensive patient education. Assume relief charge duties when designated, under the direction of the shift supervisor. Ensure adherence to hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignments may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to and promote the core expectations of the Patient Centered Medical Home or Patient Centered Specialty Practice.
• Assist physicians with special tests, procedures, and complex treatments.
• Process data, generate reports, assist in reception and discharge areas, handle patient calls, and triage using documentation.
• Ensure patient medical records contain necessary information; document medical history or chief complaint; triage and initiate care for walk-in patients.
• Document lab cultures and ensure follow-up on abnormal results.
• Assist with or institute emergency measures for sudden, adverse developments in patients.
• Assess patient’s condition and nursing needs; set goals and utilize appropriate nursing actions to achieve goals.
• Provide and document nursing care; ensure physician’s orders are carried out.
• Administer medications and perform routine treatments.
• Participate in orientation and evaluation of new personnel.
• Assist team members in patient care; coordinate patient care in conjunction with procedures by other departments and clinics.
• Ensure equipment is maintained; monitor supply and medicine requisitions; maintain supply stock levels.
• Record and report pertinent observations and reactions regarding patients to medical staff.
• Serve as a mentor to patients to promote self-management, hope, and empowerment.
• Provide education for patients and/or families about preventive care, medical issues, and the use of prescriptive medical treatment.
• Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes.
• Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk.
• Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner.
• Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations they don’t understand or may “not seem right.”

Requirements

• Graduate of a nationally accredited nursing program.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (nonessential).
• 3 years of directly related experience.
• Bilingual in English and one of the following: Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo (nonessential).
• CPR for Healthcare/BLS Provider or Professional Rescuers within 30 days of hire.
• RN licensure in New Mexico or as allowed by reciprocal agreement by New Mexico.

Physical Conditions

• Heavy Work: Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people.
• Moderate exposure to chemicals, dangerous equipment, or materials.
• Tuberculosis testing completed upon hire and additionally as required.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus available.
• Relocation assistance available.