Float Registered Nurse (Bakersfield)
About The Position
This Float RN position is a 0.2 FTE role, requiring 8 hours per week, with an on-site requirement on Mondays. The role involves travel to various PPMM locations and requires a valid driver's license and the ability to travel throughout the assigned region weekly. The Float RN will be responsible for overseeing patient triage, ensuring non-licensed staff competency in back office/lab skills, and contributing to health center productivity goals. Specific duties include preparing the recovery room, administering pre-operative and post-operative medications, providing intraoperative sedation, and monitoring patients. The role also involves patient education for medication abortions, providing immunizations, and handling lab reports for follow-up care. Additionally, the Float RN will provide triage services via phone and the Patient Portal, identifying medical urgency and scheduling appointments.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
