Ambulatory RN Clinic

CommonSpirit Health•Kirkland, WA

About The Position

The Ambulatory RN Clinic provides professional nursing care to patients in an outpatient clinic, delivering high-quality, evidence-based services in accordance with Franciscan Medical Group standards, the scope of licensure, and established procedures. The nurse assesses and coordinates care, independently triages situations using standing orders and protocols, and escalates complex, urgent, or emergent situations. The role serves as a key point of contact for patients, families, providers, and clinic staff while helping ensure safe, compassionate, consistent, and regulatory-compliant care. The position includes clinical procedures and diagnostic testing such as wound assessment, EKG, spirometry, point-of-care testing, and administration of medications, vaccines, and IV fluids. The nurse manages patient flow and telephone triage, provides health education and follow-up guidance, maintains accurate electronic medical records, and supports providers in complex nursing care situations. Additional duties include inserting and removing tubes, drains, and urinary catheters, removing PICCs, applying splints or braces, informing patients of lab results, calling prescriptions to pharmacies, returning practitioner messages, and tracking medication use and controlled-substance inventories.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Registered Nurse license for Washington State (RN:WA).
Basic Life Support CPR certification through the American Heart Association (BLS-CPR).
Strong time-management and communication skills.
Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
Ability to maintain safety, infection-control, and patient-confidentiality standards.

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 according to standing orders and protocols, and address complex, urgent, or emergent situations escalated by clinic staff.
Insert and remove tubes, drains, and urinary catheters, including removal of PICCs; apply splints and braces.
Instruct patients in collecting samples and completing other tests, and ensure patients or families understand follow-up and referral information.
Inform patients of laboratory results, call prescriptions to pharmacies, and return practitioners’ phone messages.
Answer questions and provide health care education and guidance to patients and families; explain or interpret results, findings, and diagnoses within standards of practice.
Assist providers directly in complex nursing care situations.
Administer medications according to written provider orders, track and log medication usage, and inventory controlled substances.
Manage patient flow and conduct telephone triage using established protocols.
Maintain accurate electronic medical records and uphold safety, infection-control, and patient-confidentiality standards.