Team Nurse Plymouth Cardiology

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with providers to identify needs for preventive care, evidence-based chronic disease management and care coordination.
• Provide general and specific healthcare education to patients.
• Identify and monitor self-management goals for patients.
• Collaborate care with community based providers.
• Follow up on ED visits and inpatient discharges.
• Assist providers with exams, treatments and procedures as needed.
• Perform telephonic triage and assessment, education, and coordination of healthcare and community resources.
• Directly provide patient care, including Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) and Chronic Care Management (CCM).
• Manage INR monitoring and teaching for patients on Coumadin.
• Administer vaccines and medications, providing patient education as appropriate.
• Perform a wide range of nursing activities under the direction of the provider.
• Maintain and ensure follow-up of all abnormal test and imaging results.
• Oversee inventory and ordering management of clinical supplies and equipment.
• Delegation and oversight of unlicensed staff, including MAs, CNAs, and nursing students.
• Ensure compliance with organizational mandatory annual training.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in Massachusetts required and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
• One to three years related work experience required. New graduate RN’s considered.
• CPR Certification.
• Strong interpersonal and patient communication skills.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications.

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address problems requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation and knowledge.
• Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures, set priorities, and organize work within general guidelines.
• Written Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English.
• 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.
• Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve operations.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide high-level customer service to patients, visitors, staff, and external customers.

Age Based Competencies

• Young Adult: 16-30 years
• Middle Age: 30 – 60 years
• Elderly: 60 – over

Social/Environmental Requirements

• Work requires periods of close attention to work with out interruption.
• Work requires constant response to changing circumstances and using new information to adjust approach and quickly respond to new needs.
• Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
• Regular, day-to-day contact with HCWs (Health Care Workers).

Sensory Requirements

• Close work (paperwork, visual examination)
• Color vision/perception
• Visual monotony
• Visual clarity > 20 feet
• Visual clarity
• Hot/Cold
• Sharp/Dull
• Smell
• Conversation
• Monitoring Equipment
• Telephone

Physical Requirements

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and up to 20 pounds of force frequently.
• Constant sitting, walking, endurance-working up to 3-4 hours without a break, frequent standing, bending neck, bending waist, power grasping using one hand, fine manipulation using both hands, pushing/pulling using both hands, keyboard use, reaching-above shoulder height, reaching-below shoulder height.
• Rarely pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance.

Pay Range

$32.24 – $55.32