RN - Primary Care
Company: Cambridge Health Alliance
Location: Somerville
Posted on: September 15, 2021
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Job Description:
CHA Union Square Family Health has an opening for a full time
RN. This position will provide clinical support for a practice
focusing on customer satisfaction and teamwork. Ambulatory care
nurses use the nursing process to perform a problem-focused
assessment of the patient's primary concerns in the clinic or
telephone setting This position may require working some evenings
and occasional holidays.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Conducts a patient centered assessment utilizing appropriate
assessment techniques r/t ambulatory nursing.
2. Synthesizes available data, information and nursing knowledge
relevant to the presenting health situation to identify unique
medical/nursing needs and implements appropriate interventions for
age specific categories.
3. Competently utilizes competent, evidence-based ambulatory care
nursing interventions during clinical visits, telephone encounters,
and electronic communications.
4. Provides age-appropriate care in a compassionate, caring,
culturally, and ethnically sensitive manner.
5. Participates in the development and implementation of the
interdisciplinary plan of care that identifies strategies tailored
to achieve expected outcomes.
6. Documentation meets CHA, professional, and accreditation
standards to facilitate communication of the patient condition in
the provision and coordination of treatment and services.
7. Using CHA approved protocols for telephone triage, the
ambulatory care nurse determines the urgency and disposition based
on data in order to expedite care and provide tailored health
information and advice to the patient/family.
8. Coordinates the delivery of care within the practice setting and
across health care settings.
9. Delegates appropriate interventions to ambulatory care team
based on their demonstrated competency, state practice acts,
available evidence-based guidelines, regulatory and governmental
standards, and organizational policies and defined outcome
measures.
10. Adheres to position descriptions, policies, protocols, and
procedures related to nursing professional practice.
11. Serves as a point of contact for coordination of care across
multiple agencies and/or health care organizations.
12. Employs strategies that promote the health/wellness of
individuals/families and populations.
13. Supports the patient and their caregiver in developing skills
for self-efficacy to promote, maintain, or restore health, such as
health lifestyle tips, risk-reducing behaviors, age and
developmental needs, daily living activities, and preventive
care.
14. Contributes to data collection that monitors ambulatory care
nursing and organizational performance.
15. Integrates into practice the findings of quality of care and
performance improvement initiatives that improve the quality of
ambulatory care nursing practice, outpatient care services, and
organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
16. Employs critical attributes of effective collaboration to
create, promote, and maintain an environment that supports
successful partnership and high performance team outcomes.
17. Demonstrates CHA Circle of Values and Service Standards.
18. Implements appropriate and approved best practices, including
research findings, to guide practice decisions.
19. Oversees the practice of non-professional nursing staff.
20. Employs beneficial, cost-effective ways to maximize wellness,
prevent illness, and manage acute and chronic disease and
disabilities to affect the most positive health status over the
patient's life span.
21. Directs the flow of patients and staff to assure patients are
adequately managed, and the practice runs smoothly and
effectively.
22. Administers medications according to hospital policy and
procedure.
23. Other duties as required.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Education/Training: A graduate of an accredited school of
nursing. Newly hired RNs are required to have a BSN within 1 year
of hire. BSN Preferred.
Licensure: MA. RN Licensure required Certifications:
Maintains current AHA BLS
Work Experience: A minimum of two (2) years current
ambulatory nursing required. In addition, for family practice
sites, pediatric and OB experience required.
Linguistic Capabilities: Knowledge of a second language
preferred.
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Keywords: Cambridge Health Alliance, Somerville , RN - Primary Care, Other , Somerville, Massachusetts
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