Triage Nurse / Triage Medical Assistant

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  We pay for 100% of your health insurance premium.
• We offer paid vacation and sick time.
• Primary Care Partners strives to maintain a positive work life balance for every individual.

Job Summary:

The Triage Nurse or Triage Medical Assistant is the advocate between the provider and the patient. This position gives our patients supervision, direction, and coordination of nursing care.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assure positive communications among fellow nurses, physicians, patients, and families
• Work independently utilizing critical nursing skills
• Maintains positive interface and relation with outside organizations such as other physician offices, other health care providers, Home Health, Hospice, and Nursing Homes.
• Responds to emergent issues in office and at Diagnostics
• Management of and Prioritize severity of Triage tasks and incoming calls
• Assist with completing necessary paperwork for outside entities and patient requests
• Reporting of diagnostic testing, referrals, ordering & scheduling of tests
• Refilling and monitoring the use of medications and pain management, implementing the chronic Opioid protocol and the calculations of the MEDD
• Responds to all emergent phone calls and EMR messages to assess and give directives
• IV therapy if certified
• Implementing the action plan for: UTI’s, Strep, Vaginal Candidiasis, Coumadin, chronic opioids and pain management.
• Supporting floor staff when needed (blood draws, catheters, injections)

Experience:

Must be an RN or LPN, or Medical Assistant who is capable of working in a the triage position; caring personality with a positive attitude; calm under pressure and exhibit sound nursing judgment; excellent time management and problem solving abilities, good communication skills. Must have experience in pharmacology. IV certified helpful but not a necessity. Good computer skills, detail oriented and self- motivated.

Education Requirements:

Have appropriate education and current license for an LPN or RN or Medical Assistant

Working Conditions:

Works in a well-lighted area; primarily seated at a desk, extensive telephone work, computer work and paperwork.

Risk Level:

High to Moderate exposure

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.