Staff RN - Gastroenterology Office

Full-time, 40 hours per week | Monday-Friday, dayshift

Pay

Minimum $36.90 per hour – pay commensurate with experience

About the role

This is a triage position. The RN will work with a group of physicians, fellows, and NPs to provide care coordination for patients. The RN will communicate with patients, families, and ancillary services through Epic telephone encounters/MyChart encounters and via phone. Care coordination activities include addressing medical issues/concerns, communicating test results, medication refills/prior authorizations, patient/family education, and communicating with ancillary services such as dieticians, home care companies, insurance companies, and pharmacies.

Responsibilities

• Assists patients to move rapidly, uneventfully, and as effectively as possible through their episode of care while maintaining quality and safety as a priority.
• Delegates, directs, oversees, and provides developmentally appropriate patient care.
• Practices professional nursing and promotes patient advocacy in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Provides nursing care using a Family Centered approach.
• Assesses individualized patient needs.
• Communicates patient care needs and priorities to assigned Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), Patient Care Assistants (PCAs), Unit Coordinators, and Allied Health personnel.
• Plans, implements, educates, and evaluates care using Evidence-Based Practices.
• Utilizes Therapeutic Communication while monitoring the physical, psychological, and social needs of patients and families.
• Engages in the “workplace community” by staying aware of changes, participating in data collection or auditing, understanding Quality Improvement, and representing staff at relevant meetings.
• Documents according to organizational standards, policies, and procedures.

Requirements

• BSN or Associate degree with commitment to obtain BSN within 5 years of hire, required.
• Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Ohio.
• Current CPR certification.
• Must be willing to obtain and maintain NRP, PALS, ACLS, APHON, or other necessary certification as determined by your manager based on business unit.

Physical Requirements

• Occasionally: Biohazard waste, climb stairs/ladder, driving motor vehicles (work required), fumes/gases/vapors, hand use: grasping/gripping/turning, lifting/carrying: 41-60 lbs, lifting/carrying: 61-100 lbs, machinery, power tools, pushing/pulling: 100 lbs or greater with assistance, reaching above shoulder.
• Frequently: Bend/twist, blood and/or bodily fluids, chemicals/medications, communicable diseases and/or pathogens, depth perception, electricity, lifting/carrying: 0-10 lbs, lifting/carrying: 11-20 lbs, lifting/carrying: 21-40 lbs, patient equipment, pushing/pulling: 0-25 lbs, pushing/pulling: 26-40 lbs, pushing/pulling: 41-60 lbs, pushing/pulling: 61-100 lbs, repetitive hand/arm use, sitting, squat/kneel.
• Continuously: Audible speech, color vision, computer skills, decision making, hearing acuity, interpreting data, peripheral vision, problem solving, seeing – far/near, standing, walking.