Staff Nurse

Beacon Pediatrics

Join Our Team:

We are seeking compassionate, skilled, and dependable Pediatric Nurses to join our growing healthcare team. We currently have full-time positions available for candidates who are passionate about delivering high-quality patient care and creating a positive patient experience.

About us:

• Founded in 2023, Beacon Pediatrics brings together seven experienced Pediatricians who have been providing primary pediatric care to the families of the South Shore for over 20 years.
• Beacon Pediatrics was created to provide a ray of hope and light to help guide and navigate children, adolescents and their families through the ever-changing and, at times, turbulent waters of life.
• The mission of Beacon Pediatrics is to provide the highest quality of evidence based medical care for children and adolescents in a family centered medical home

Position Overview:

The Pediatric Nurse is responsible for assessing patient needs, developing and implementing care plans, administering treatments and medications, and collaborating with providers and healthcare staff to ensure exceptional patient outcomes.

As in any medical practice, scheduled hours may include days, evenings, and weekends.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions**):

• Providing telephone triage to patients and their families
• Reviewing and reconciling list of medications with patients
• Initiating prescription refill requests for provider review and processing
• Prescription management tasks including processing prior authorizations
• Documenting patient requests for referrals and notifying provider through the referral workflow process
• Communication with patients and families regarding lab results, medication administration, and home care advice
• Providing patient education regarding common childhood illnesses, medications, expected courses of treatment and general medical advice
• Patient care follow-up for ER or Specialist visits
• Documenting in medical record efficiently and accurately
• Direct patient care including but are not limited to stocking, preparing, and cleaning exam rooms, rooming patients, taking appropriate vital signs (including rectal/temporal temperature, height, weight, blood pressure) and performing vision and hearing screenings
• Draws and collects blood samples from patients through venous draws, finger sticks or heel sticks as back up to phlebotomists
• Performing in-house CLIA-waived testing procedures for strep throat, COVID, flu and processing urine samples
• Using proper techniques and procedures for hazardous waste disposal, universal precautions and body mechanics
• Monitoring and stocking supplies under the direction of the Nurse Manager
• Maintaining medical equipment and office equipment
• Other duties as assigned by need.

** To comply with regulations by the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), the principal duties in job descriptions must be essential to the job. To identify essential functions, focus on the purpose and the result of the duties rather than the manner in which they are performed. The following definition applies: a job function is essential if removal of that function would fundamentally change the job. Other duties may be assigned by need.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Pay: $37.20 - $46.66 per hour

Work Location: In person

Salary : $37 - $47