What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse position at Flexcare Infusion Center OKC LLC?
Title: Registered Nurse
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Reports To: Managing Nurse Practitioner or Clinic Manager or Senior Clinic Manager
Position Summary
The Registered Nurse is responsible for delivering safe and professional IV therapy for patients on specialty medications that treat neurological, rheumatologic, gastroenterological, and immunological disorders. This role will be highly involved in helping to implementing and support best clinical practices for our clinic, patients, and referral sources.
Reasonable Accommodation Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed below satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job Duties
- Provides direct patient care in the form of evaluating and documenting patient clinical assessments and IV therapy as aligned with company, federal and state policies for both pediatric and adult patients.
- Prepares/compounds sterile admixtures for immediate use per FDA package insert and FlexCare clinical protocol.
- Communicates with physicians and other health care providers on clinical services related issues.
- Administers necessary medications as necessary to mitigate acute infusion reactions, under the supervision of the infusion center Managing Nurse Practitioner.
- Administers prescribed intravenous and subcutaneous medications and biologics, adhering to prescriber order and applicable FDA dosing parameters.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of the health care process (self, systems, environment, and instrumentation) in meeting clinical outcomes.
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and clinical operations functioning.
- Provides infusion therapy under the scope of FlexCare policies, procedures and clinical drug protocols to ensure coordination and safe delivery of care.
- Assists the clinical team in the entry, review and validation of prescriber orders received by faxed referral or verbal order.
- Assists in the review of lab work drawn onsite, and the reporting of any critical values to the referring provider.
- Assists in the ongoing review of clinical protocols for all infusible/injectables provided by FlexCare to maintain clinical competency.
- Assures that all patient related documentation, and clinical reports are accurately completed, submitted and/or filed in a timely manner, according to internal and external regulatory requirements and in support of the billing process.
- Participates in department Quality Assurance activities as requested.
Competency Statements:
- Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results with little oversight.
- Diligently attends to details and pursues quality in accomplishing tasks.
- Gets along and interacts positively with co-workers and others; understands and relates to others.
- Earns others’ trust and respect through consistent honesty and professionalism in all interactions.
- Uses tools, machines, and/or vehicles to complete the assigned work.
Supervisory Responsibility
This role has no supervisory requirements.
Work Environment
This job operates in a medical, office setting. This role routinely uses standard office and medical equipment such as computers, printers, fax machines, phones, copiers, infusion pumps, IVs, Etc.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This role may be full-time, part-time, or PRN. Typical working hours are determined by each location,
though shifts and hours may vary based on business needs. All employees, regardless of status, may be
required to adjust schedules as necessary to meet operational demands. Exempt employees should have the flexibility to be on-call and available, as needed, to ensure continuity of care and support.
Required Minimum Job Qualifications, Experience, Education and Training
Education: Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Experience: 3 years Infusion Therapy with experience in the management of patients on specialty
medications (i.e, Immunoglobulin, biologics); strong IV access skills
Required Certifications:
- Unrestricted RN license in the state of employment
- BLS/ CPR required upon hire
- ONS Fundamentals of Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Administration Certification, required within 90 days of hire for full time hires
Preferred Education and Experience
Experience: 5 years of Infusion therapy experience.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Unrestricted motor vehicle license
Must be able to accomplish any and all duties with little to no assistance.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of 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.
