Registered Nurse - On-Call

Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center•Hillsboro, OR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, we honor all members of our community and acknowledge the dignity of each person we serve. Our purpose is to provide high quality, comprehensive primary health care to the communities of Washington and Yamhill counties with a special emphasis on migrant and seasonal farm workers and a view to removing barriers to health care. We strive to provide an environment that welcomes and values the people we employ and serve. If you are unsure whether you meet all the required qualifications for this role but are interested and passionate about this potential position, we encourage you to apply. The Registered Nurse (RN) provides holistic patient care service as a member of the primary care team. The RN performs routine clinical tasks necessary for efficient patient care and assists other patient care providers as needed.

Requirements

Current Oregon RN License.
Proficiency in English and Spanish, both written and spoken language preferred.
Commitment to providing quality health care to all.
Demonstrated commitment to working with patients and staff from a wide range of ethnic, economic, cultural and social backgrounds.

Responsibilities

Assess patient needs through problem-oriented history, including past medical history, current problems and vital signs.
Identify patients with significant health risks, including patients at risk due to hereditary factors, lifestyle, diet, substance abuse, social/cultural/environmental factors, and/or inadequate understanding of their disease process or treatment plan.
Perform patient education involving explanation to the patient of diagnosis, treatment plan (including use of medications and their effects and side effects), infection control (if indicated), and preventative techniques to lower patient risk of future disease or accident.
Assess patient needs through telephone interviews – advise patients over the phone and identify patients with urgent care needs.
Triage patients who arrive without appointments, including assessment and evaluation for need of medical care based on their medical history, present complaint, vital signs, and physical assessment (after physician consult if necessary).
Dispense medication under M.D. supervision and administration of oral, I.M. and I.V. medication as ordered by M.D., FNP, and CNW.
Case manage high-risk patients.
Facilitate patient/family group education sessions.
Coordinate patient flow and triage patients in the absence of the provider when provider is out or unavailable.
Update on-call providers daily on changing needs of complex, high maintenance or high-risk patients.
Maintain infection control within the clinic.
Perform laboratory procedures when necessary.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Handle protected health information (PHI) in a manner consistent with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
The RN will use PHI to answer patient questions about their medical problems or plan of care, to triage and schedule appointments for urgent medical problems, to relay information from the health care providers to the patient and to provider nursing visits at patients homes.
Applying the minimum necessary rules of HIPAA, the designated record sets to which this employee will have access include: scheduling, demographics, and view only patient account information in the practice management system, and the complete medical record, including confidential sections.