Clinic Registered Nurse (RN) - <UROLOGY/URODYNAMICS>
About The Position
Prescribes, delegates, and coordinates professional nursing care to pediatric patients using the nursing process and in accordance with hospital policies, procedures, and clinical practice guidelines. Meets job-specific standards and demonstrates competency in identified skills for the area. The nurse conducts age-specific patient and family assessments, documents relevant patient information, communicates and coordinates the plan of care, and supports providers in clinic operations. This role also performs ambulatory-care procedures and other duties within the RN scope of practice.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or associate’s degree from an accredited school of nursing.
- At least 1 year of RN experience; incumbents with less than 1 year of RN experience must commit to work full-time in a Nurse Residency Program.
- Registered Nurse state licensure and/or compact state licensure, required upon hire.
- Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association, required upon hire.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 180 days, or PEARS within 180 days.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with pediatric patients.
- Previous experience with EPIC.
Responsibilities
- Conduct holistic, age-specific patient and family assessments at clinic visits and complete ongoing assessments and reassessments according to applicable clinical practice guidelines, protocols, and standards of care.
- Collect and document information about patients’ physical, mental, developmental, emotional, and social conditions.
- Assess patient needs in light of age-specific growth and development, treatment needs, and family expectations and involvement in care.
- Communicate the plan of care to patients and families in an understandable manner and identify when physician involvement or a change in the plan may be needed.
- Document and evaluate nursing actions and meet organizational chart-audit expectations, including the stated 95% overall goal for FER, clinic problem list, signatures, pain assessment, and related items.
- Communicate promptly with patients, families, and other healthcare disciplines; return patient-care-related calls the same business day.
- Review assigned patient charts to coordinate care, including completion of tests, consultations, procedures, interdisciplinary follow-up, and referrals for clinic visits.
- Follow up on tests and laboratory results within established time frames; laboratory tests are followed up within 48 hours after results are obtained.
- Consider cultural, cognitive, emotional, and social factors affecting patients’ and families’ readiness and ability to learn, and document teaching and understanding on the FER.
- Gather patient information and convey it to physicians in a timely, concise, and thorough manner.
- Assist physicians in clinic to support workflow and customer expectations regarding timeliness.
- Use effective delegation techniques.
- Perform RN-scope ambulatory-care tasks, which may include database entry, scheduling and assisting with special procedures, inpatient responsibilities, case management, and education and teaching.
- Communicate effectively in writing and verbally with appropriate individuals and coordinate care to ensure continuity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
