Team Nurse-Needham-Internal Medicine

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).
• Manage INR for patients on Coumadin.
• Administer vaccines and medications.
• Accurately document all aspects of patient care in the Electronic Health Record.
• Schedule tests and referrals for specialty care.
• Maintain inventory and ordering management of clinical supplies and equipment.
• Ensure safe, accurate and clinically appropriate collection, storage and processing of all biologic specimens.
• Oversee unlicensed staff and provide ongoing education and training.
• Maintain compliance with organizational mandatory annual training.
• 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. New graduate RN’s considered.
• 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.