Float Registered Nurse (North Stockton)

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte•Stockton, CA

13d•$49 - $53•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a Float RN position for North Stockton, working 0.2 FTE (8 hours per week) with on-site work on Tuesdays. Travel to various PPMM locations is required. The role involves overseeing non-licensed staff, patient triage, contributing to health center productivity, and demonstrating customer service standards. Specific duties include preparing the recovery room, administering pre-operative and post-operative medications, assessing post-operative patients, overseeing HSS functions, providing intraoperative sedation, and maintaining emergency equipment. Additionally, the role involves providing services for hormonal contraception, Emergency Contraception (EC), and STI screening, as well as patient education, counseling, lab work, and ultrasounds for medication abortions. Immunizations will also be administered. As a Centralized Follow-Up RN, responsibilities include signing off on lab reports, evaluating and developing follow-up plans, and referring complex cases to clinicians. In the Triage RN role for the Response Center, duties involve providing advice and triage services, identifying medical urgency, scheduling appointments, answering calls, and responding to patient emails via the Patient Portal.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited Nursing Program
Current CA State RN license
Current BLS Certificate
Current ACLS Certificate
Current experience using computer and mouse
Experience using a Microsoft Windows based program and willing to learn new computer skills
Willingness to work flexible hours and locations
Strong customer service orientation
Valid driver’s license and ability to travel throughout the assigned region on a weekly basis
Ability to communicate effectively

Responsibilities

Travels to PPMM locations as required
Responsible for assuring non-licensed staff are qualified in performing back office/lab skills and achieve core competency levels on an annual basis
Provides input for the medical component of the non-licensed staff performance reviews
Oversees patient triage for medical problems and acute versus routine appointments for both reproductive health and primary care patients
Works with Center Manager or designee to facilitate flow and triage
Contributes to achieving health center productivity goals
Demonstrates PPMM customer service standards
Prepares recovery room for all in clinic abortion services
Prepares pre-operative medication
Assess post-operative patients for pain and bleeding control and early detection of complications
Oversees HSS functions: vital signs, post-operative instructions, education of patient identified birth control method
Provides intraoperative sedation medication and patient monitoring
Provides post-operative medications
Maintains and ensures emergency cart and equipment are stocked and current
Follows standardized procedures for the following patient visits: hormonal contraception, Emergency Contraception (EC), and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) screening
Provides patient education, counseling, lab work and ultrasound for medication abortions
Provide immunizations per approved guidelines and standardized procedures, such as HPV vaccination
Accepts and signs-off GC/CT, pap and other designated lab reports from clinician’s PAQs
Evaluates and develops plan for follow up
Refers paps/other labs that are outside the scope of CFU RN to the health centers’ clinicians
Verifies that all lab reports are handled appropriately and within the appropriate time frame
Provides advice/triage services to both reproductive health and primary care patients
Identifies medical urgency and schedules appointments with the health centers
Answers all calls placed in queue by Response Center as outlined in the Triage Policy
Responds to patient emails through the Patient Portal in EHR