What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse - School Clinic position at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers?
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- Provides patient-centered nursing care in an outpatient school-based clinic, according to established scope of practice guidelines and standards of care.
- Monitors and supports overall student health, including tracking individual health maintenance needs, vaccine records, keeping school health records updated, school environment infection prevention.
- Provides triage assessment to walk-in patients, their family members, school staff and others for referrals to Primary Care Provider.
- Develops health care plans for students with chronic illnesses and disabilities as needed.
- Administers medications, under Provider orders, including but not limited to: immunizations, antibiotics, pain medications, topical agents, insulin, and prescribed medications for chronic conditions.
- Assesses and provides student/patient, parent and staff education on specific chronic condition disease processes, treatment, and self-care, integrating health promotion and preventive aspects of care.
- Provides navigation support for student/patient referrals or test requests.
- Performs nursing tasks or skills such as removal of sutures and staples, basic wound care, catheterization, audiograms, laboratory procedures (throat/nose culture, drug screen, phlebotomy – butterfly, venous access), spirometry, basic wound care, etc., with demonstrated competency.
- Provides nursing expertise and acts as resource to Medical Assistants. May provide work direction to other staff and/or assist with patient care flow and the provision of services. Proactively participates in staff development by seeking to provide “on-the-spot” learning opportunities, creating in-servicing plans, delivering in-servicing plans for support staff.
- Assists with telephone triage and other RN pool responsibilities, as needed.
- Assists in maintenance/protection of patient privacy and medical record data collection by:
- Proactively upholding clinic guidelines and standards related to Patient Confidentiality
- Reviewing patient data on chart each visit for necessary health maintenance issues and/or follow-up issues from previous visits
- Rendering complete, accurate and professional documentation of care rendered, procedures performed, tests administered, tasks completed, results received, and/or other patient related information pertinent to care.
- Participates in the Clinic mission to provide high quality healthcare by:
- Actively participating in department In-servicing and Annual Skills Testing
- Actively seeking independent studies to keep aware and current of nursing issues.
- Alerting appropriate staff and/or acting on possible safety or confidentiality issues
- Offering workflow, safety, morale related improvement suggestions
- Complies with SSCHC Infection Control Plan including employee testing.
- Maintains additional assigned clinical projects (staff development, Coumadin clinic) in a safe, orderly, and documented manner, with minimal supervision requirements.
- Registered Nurse with current license and two years nursing experience; current basic life support certification (CPR)
- Supervisory experience or demonstrated supervisory aptitude.
- Strong computer skills preferred.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Ability to relate well to people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
- Bilingual preferred (Spanish/English or Hmong/English)