Ambulatory RN Clinic
About The Position
The Clinic Registered Nurse (RN) delivers professional, compassionate nursing care to clinic patients. The role includes conducting patient screenings and risk assessments, providing preventative health education, coordinating care, and using technology to support clinical processes. The nurse guides patients through instructions, addresses concerns, independently triages nursing situations under standing orders and protocols, and escalates complex, urgent, or emergent situations as needed. The RN performs diagnostic tests and clinical procedures within their training and scope of licensure, provides wound care, assists with tubes and catheters, and ensures patients and families understand sample collection, follow-up, and referrals. The role also involves communicating laboratory results, contacting pharmacies with prescriptions, and returning practitioners’ phone messages.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing, upon hire.
- Registered Nurse license in Washington, upon hire.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (CPR), upon hire.
Nice To Haves
- One year of RN work experience in a clinic setting, or two years of acute care RN work experience.
Responsibilities
- Deliver professional nursing care to clinic patients.
- Perform diagnostic testing and clinical procedures within training, scope of licensure, and established procedures.
- Independently triage nursing situations in accordance with standing orders and protocols; address complex, urgent, or emergent situations escalated by clinic staff.
- Perform patient assessment and care tests, including EKG, spirometry, vision and hearing screening, peak flow, and color-blindness testing, according to established protocols.
- Conduct independent wound assessments and provide complex wound care and dressing changes, including placing or changing wound vacs.
- Remove sutures or staples after a provider has assessed the wound.
- Insert or remove tubes, drains, and urinary catheters, including removing PICC lines; apply splints or braces.
- Instruct patients in collecting samples and completing other tests; ensure patients or families understand follow-up and referral information.
- Inform patients of laboratory results, call prescriptions in to pharmacies, and return practitioners’ phone messages.
- Collaborate on patient screenings, risk assessments, preventative health education, and care coordination.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
