640 - Registered Nurse
About The Position
The Registered Nurse ensures the overall safety of patient care and incorporates patients’ cultural backgrounds and values into communication and service provision. The role combines clinical and administrative functions, delivering high-quality patient care and supporting effective unit operations. The nurse observes, reports, and documents changes in patients’ physical, psychological, or safety status to appropriate clinical team members, including the Charge Nurse, and documents care in the electronic medical record. The nurse also helps maintain patient flow by reviewing the waiting area and reporting delays, promotes teamwork as a role model, and maintains nursing knowledge through professional development. The Registered Nurse provides and coordinates care across screening, triage, pain management, fall prevention, nutrition, psychosocial needs, discharge planning, and other interventions that restore, maintain, or promote health. The role includes patient advocacy and navigation, executing the medical plan of care under the treating clinician’s direction, supervising applicable support staff, supporting patient self-management, and coordinating continuity of care with external organizations and providers. The nurse also contributes to care-team communication, outcomes reporting, clinical audits, performance improvement initiatives, and prior authorization processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
- Current New York State Registered Professional Nurse license.
- Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- For the general role: minimum two years’ experience in outpatient clinics with adult populations and one year with pediatric populations.
- For the OB/GYN Women’s Health Center: minimum two years’ experience in outpatient clinics.
- Commitment to continuing professional growth and development.
- Professional communication and presence, and ability to remain calm in difficult situations.
- Time-management and organizational skills.
- Ability to define problems, collect and analyze data, and draw conclusions.
- Ability to interpret technical instructions in mathematical and diagram formats.
- Ability to speak, read, write, and communicate effectively in English.
- Ability to prepare and deliver concise written and oral reports.
- Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages, and to compute and interpret numerical and graphic data.
- Physical dexterity to perform fine and gross motor skills; ability to stand for extended periods, ambulate without difficulty, sit and use a computer, and lift or move up to 30 pounds.
- Ability to discern colors accurately and see accurately at near and far distances.
Responsibilities
- Ensure patient safety and incorporate patients’ cultural backgrounds and values into communication and service provision.
- Provide high-quality patient care and support effective unit operations through clinical and administrative functions.
- Observe, report, and document changes in patients’ physical, psychological, or safety status to appropriate clinical team members, including the Charge Nurse.
- Document all care in the electronic medical record.
- Review the volume and types of patients in the waiting area periodically and report delays to assist patient flow.
- Assume responsibility for patient screenings, triage, pain management, fall prevention, nutritional and psychosocial needs, discharge planning, and other health interventions.
- Use the nursing process to provide direct patient care.
- Support patients and their families or significant others through the healthcare system as a patient advocate and navigator.
- Prescribe, delegate, and coordinate care provided to assigned patients.
- Execute the medical plan of care under the treating clinician’s direction and within the scope of Registered Professional Nurse licensure.
- Use nursing diagnoses and services such as case finding, health teaching, health counseling, and supportive or restorative care to address actual and potential health problems.
- Supervise patient care provided by LPNs, medical assistants, medical office assistants, and supplemental staff, as applicable to the location.
- Support patient self-management of disease and behavior modification interventions.
- Coordinate continuity of care with external healthcare organizations and facilities, including primary care and specialty care providers.
- Promote clear communication among care-team members and treating clinicians regarding patients’ plans of care.
- Participate in data collection, health outcomes reporting, clinical audits, and program evaluation related to Patient-Centered Medical Home and performance improvement initiatives.
- Assist with prior authorization for clinical and pharmacy-related orders.
- Function as part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team.
- Promote teamwork and serve as a role model on the clinical unit.
- Maintain nursing knowledge and skills through professional development activities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
