RN Urgent Care, Nights

UnitedHealth Group•Las Vegas, NV

12d•$29 - $52•Onsite

About The Position

Southwest Medical, part of OptumCare, is a multi-specialty group of physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants consisting of over 300 providers, 21 medical health centers including six urgent care clinics, four convenient care centers, two lifestyle centers catering to older adults, an outpatient surgery center, home health, hospice and palliative care services, plus E-visits and online options via Now Clinic telemedicine technology. Southwest Medical offers patients compassion, innovation, and quality care throughout southern Nevada. Southwest Medical is headquartered in the greater Las Vegas, NV area. As an Urgent Care RN you will provide and monitor quality patient care, in a critical care environment, utilizing the nursing process. Identifies, initiates and assesses the effectiveness for known and potential problems and evaluates outcomes. The Urgent Care RN is responsible for providing patient care using the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating and documentation of patient information to include vital signs, chief complaint, review of medications, allergies and interventions, including IV therapy and drug administration.

Requirements

Current, unrestricted NV RN license or temporary NV RN license with the ability to obtain permanent NV RN license upon expiration of temporary NV RN license
BLS / ACLS
PALS or ability to obtain upon hire
1+ years of clinical nursing experience in an acute care setting (ER, MED / SURG, Critical Care, Urgent Care)
Proven excellent IV skills
Proven ability to read and interpret Cardiac Telemetry rhythms
Proven ability to develop and implement plan of care based on assessment skills
Proven ability to coordinate medical care with provider and appropriate team members
Demonstrated initiative towards problem solving
Demonstrated multi-system assessment skills

Nice To Haves

2+ years clinical nursing experience in an acute care setting
Experience charting in EMR

Responsibilities

Prepares patient for exam, notes and documents responses to interventions and confers Provider
Anticipate provider needs for patient exam or treatments, such as set up for pelvic exam, or minor procedures as well as ensuring patient disrobes as appropriate. Ensure provider is assisted with in house procedures
Provides clinical intervention such as drug administration, treatments, IV Therapy, and procedures as ordered by provider
Initiates clinical follow through for patient care services, i.e., lab, x-ray, pharmacy, referral and telephone communication
Delegates and assists co - workers with duties, to include but not limited to floating to other areas
Compliance requirements such as laboratory QC management, waive testing, maintenance of crash cart and narcotic count as well as other requirements dictated by clinic needs
Maintaining required licensure and certification