Urology RN Clinic

CommonSpirit Health • Tacoma, WA

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About The Position

The Urology Clinic RN for the Urology Gynecology team provides professional nursing services and high-quality patient care consistent with organizational standards and regulatory requirements. The nurse directly cares for clinic patients by assessing, coordinating, triaging, evaluating, and delegating to the care team; educating and consulting with patients, families, and staff; and implementing interventions to support optimal care. The role applies critical thinking to patient-care decisions within the scope of practice, integrates resources and data, uses staff efficiently, and manages patient needs in a provider’s absence while remaining accountable for care quality.

The RN delivers professional nursing care, performs diagnostic testing and clinical procedures within training and licensure, independently triages situations under standing orders and protocols, and escalates or addresses more complex, urgent, or emergent situations referred by clinic staff. Duties also include performing patient assessment and care tests, managing wounds, removing sutures or staples after provider assessment, inserting or removing tubes, drains, and urinary catheters, removing PICCs, applying splints or braces, instructing patients on sample collection and testing, explaining follow-up and referral information, informing patients of lab results, calling prescriptions to pharmacies, and returning practitioners’ phone messages.

Success in this position requires sound clinical judgment, critical thinking, advanced urology nursing skills, effective communication, commitment to quality and safety, and efficient use of resources.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing, upon hire.
• Registered Nurse: Washington, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR), upon hire.

Nice To Haves

• One year of RN work experience in a clinic setting, or two years of acute-care RN work experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing care to clinic patients.
• Assess, coordinate, triage, evaluate, and delegate patient care to the care team.
• Educate and consult with patients, families, and staff, and implement care interventions.
• Apply critical thinking to patient-care decisions within scope of practice; integrate resources and data and use staff efficiently.
• Manage patient needs in a provider’s absence and remain accountable for care quality.
• Perform diagnostic testing and clinical procedures within training, licensure, and established procedures.
• Independently triage nursing situations according to standing orders and protocols; address or escalate complex, urgent, or emergent situations.
• Perform patient assessment and care tests, including EKG, spirometry, vision and hearing screening, peak flow, and color-blindness testing, under established protocols.
• Perform independent wound assessments and complex wound care and dressing changes, including placement or changing of wound vacs.
• Remove sutures or staples after a provider’s wound assessment.
• Insert or remove tubes, drains, and urinary catheters, including removal of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs); apply splints or braces.
• Instruct patients in sample collection and other tests, and ensure patients or families understand follow-up and referral information.
• Inform patients of lab results, call prescriptions in to pharmacies, and return practitioners’ phone messages.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed