Registered Nurse (Seaside)
About The Position
This is a Registered Nurse position with 0.2 FTE, working 8 hours per week, located in Seaside, CA. The role involves overseeing non-licensed staff, patient triage, contributing to health center productivity, and providing direct patient care in various settings including in-clinic abortion services, sexual and reproductive health, centralized follow-up, and triage response center duties. The nurse will be responsible for ensuring staff competency, preparing patients for procedures, monitoring post-operative care, providing education, and managing lab reports and patient communication.
Requirements
- Ability to perform the duties described above.
- Graduation from an accredited Nursing Program
- Current CA State RN license
- Current BLS 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
- Ability to communicate effectively
Nice To Haves
- Current ACLS Certificate (CFU RNs exempt)
Responsibilities
- Assuring non-licensed staff are qualified in performing back office/lab skills and achieve core competency levels annually.
- Providing input for the medical component of non-licensed staff performance reviews.
- Overseeing patient triage for medical problems and acute versus routine appointments for both reproductive health and primary care patients.
- Working with Center Manager or designee to facilitate flow and triage.
- Contributing to achieving health center productivity goals.
- Demonstrating PPMM customer service standards.
- Preparing recovery room for all in-clinic abortion services.
- Preparing pre-operative medications.
- Assessing post-operative patients for pain and bleeding control and early detection of complications.
- Overseeing HSS functions: vital signs, post-operative instructions, education of patient identified birth control method.
- Providing intraoperative sedation medication and patient monitoring.
- Providing post-operative medications.
- Maintaining and ensuring emergency cart and equipment are stocked and current.
- Following standardized procedures for patient visits including hormonal contraception, Emergency Contraception (EC), and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) screening.
- Providing patient education, counseling, lab work and ultrasound for medication abortions.
- Providing immunizations per approved guidelines and standardized procedures, such as HPV vaccination.
- Accepting and signing off lab reports from clinician’s PAQs.
- Evaluating and developing plans for follow-up.
- Referring paps/other labs that are outside the scope of CFU RN to the health centers’ clinicians.
- Verifying that all lab reports are handled appropriately and within the appropriate time frame.
- Providing advice/triage services to both reproductive health and primary care patients.
- Identifying medical urgency and scheduling appointments with the health centers.
- Answering all calls placed in queue by the Response Center as outlined in the Triage Policy.
- Responding to patient emails through the Patient Portal in HER.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
