Team Nurse

About the role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. Reporting directly to the Practice Manager and Senior Director of Nursing, the Team Nurse RN position is responsible for performing the duties of a RN in an outpatient primary care or family medicine practice and serves as a clinical resource for the medical practice.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with providers to identify needs for preventive care, evidence-based chronic disease management and care coordination.
• Provide general and specific healthcare education.
• Work directly with patients to identify and monitor self-management goals.
• Collaborate care with community based providers.
• Follow up on ED visits and inpatient discharges.
• Assists providers with exams, treatments and procedures as needed.
• Perform a direct patient care role, including Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) and Chronic Care Management (CCM).
• Administer vaccines and medications by parenteral, oral, rectal or nasal route by orders of the prescribing provider and by the Medication Administration policy guidelines established by BIDHC.
• Accurately document all aspects of patient care in the Electronic Health Record in a timely basis.
• Schedule tests and referrals for specialty care on order of provider.
• Maintain inventory and ordering management of clinical supplies and equipment as necessary.
• Ensure safe, accurate and clinically appropriate collection, storage and processing of all biologic specimens.
• Oversee the delegation and act as a resource to unlicensed staff including MAs, Certified Nursing Assistants and Nursing Students.
• Provide ongoing education and training to practice staff.
• Maintain compliance with organizational mandatory annual training.
• Ensure PHI is only used for the purposes of patient treatment, payment and operations.
• Ensure patient safety practices to prevent/eliminate risk of patient harm.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• License Registered Nurse in Massachusetts required and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
• 1-3 years related work experience required. Will consider new graduate RN’s.
• CPR Certification.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong patient communication and patient education skills.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications.

Skills

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge and skills based on general precedents.
• Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures.
• Written Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.
• Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving.
• Age based Competencies: Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 - over.

Benefits

The Team Nurse RN will ensure that PHI (Patient Health Information) will only be used for the purposes of patient TPO (treatment, payment and operations). The Team Nurse RN will ensure patient safety practices to prevent/eliminate risk of patient harm. Adverse patient events and near misses will be promptly reported to the BIDHC Risk Management Dept.

Pay

$32.24 - $55.32 per hour