Registered Nurse - Pre-Admission Testing - Part Time, Day - Jefferson Lansdale

Jefferson Health Plans

8d • Onsite

About The Position

PRIMARY FUNCTION: Responsible for coordinating care for a group of patients for a designated period to achieve clinical, financial, and organizational outcomes. Provides direct patient care and education based on the nursing process; mentors and manages others to promote quality and excellence of care, supports physicians with clinical and laboratory procedures. Works collaboratively with, and provides leadership for, a multidisciplinary health care team to optimize team performance and patient outcomes. Promotes improvement in the practice, processes, and systems to benefit patient care and achieve practice and organizational goals. Incorporates and operationalizes goals and objectives of department at the site of patient care. Decision making within the scope of nursing care and responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Assesses and documents patient’s weight, height, and vital signs.
• Updates patient’s record at each visit with medications, immunizations, medical or surgical procedures.
• Assesses patient’s health literacy, providing patient support with intake questionnaires and completion of requisite medical record information, e.g. obtaining and maintaining current and accurate histories.
• Prepares patients for examination
• Assists with procedures, specimen collection, and testing as needed
• Administers injections as directed by the physician.
• Reviews prescription renewal requests and responds to patient prescription questions. Telephones in prescription renewals or orders as directed or requested by the physician.
• Provides patient education
• Knowledge of all medical procedures performed in the office.
• Educate patients concerning testing procedures and follow-up.
• Manages intake of all patient telephone calls into the department for prescription requests or inquiries and medical concerns.
• Retrieves patient phone messages, manages and resolves phone messages for physicians, if possible, and documents the patient’s call and the department’s response in patient chart. Triage patient telephone calls to identify issues that require physician attention.
• Performs pre-certification of prescription medications.
• Communicates with pharmacists regarding prescriptions and renewals as directed by physicians
• Communicates with patients, families and other health care providers
• Calls patient with test results, as directed by the physicians
• Facilitates the department’s completion of patients’ forms from such outside sources as disability, workers compensation, schools and DOT., / Revised 06/01/10
• Responsible for maintaining schedule of lumbar puncture procedures, ensuring that the appropriate supplies and equipment are available for the procedure, and coordinating appointments.
• Act as a liaison between patient, families, MD, social work, and neurology fellows/residents as needed.
• Develops and updates clinical policies within the outpatient setting
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the core values of the University.

Benefits

• Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.
• Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.
• All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees