Registered Nurse, Acute Care

4 months ago

Hillsboro, United States Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Starting Hourly Wage: $42.6029/hr + DOE
Schedule:
• Week 1: ThFS 8am to 8pm
• Week 2: MTW 8am to 8pm

At Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, we welcome diversity; we encourage, uplift, and are honored to serve people who have been historically underrepresented and underserved. Our mission is to provide high-quality, culturally appropriate healthcare to low-income residents of Washington and Yamhill Counties, with a special emphasis on seasonal and migrant farm workers and others with barriers to receiving healthcare. We strive to provide an inclusive environment that welcomes and values the diversity of the people we employ and serve.

If you are unsure whether you meet all the required qualifications for this role but are interested and passionate about this potential position, we encourage you to apply.

Job Summary: The Registered Nurse, Acute Care (RN) provides holistic patient care as a member of the care team. The RN performs routine clinical tasks necessary for efficient patient care and assists other patient care providers as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Assess patient needs through problem-oriented history, including past medical history, current problems, and vital signs.
  • Identify patients with significant health risks, including patients at risk due to hereditary factors, lifestyle, diet, substance abuse, social/cultural/environmental factors, and/or inadequate understanding of their disease process or treatment plan.
  • Perform patient education, explaining to the patient their diagnosis, treatment plan (including use of medications and their effects and side effects), infection control (if indicated), and preventative techniques to lower patient risk of future disease or accident.
  • Assess patient needs through telephone interviews – advise patients over the phone and identify patients with urgent care needs.
  • Triage patients who arrive without appointments, including assessment and evaluation for need of medical care based on their medical history, present complaint, vital signs, and physical assessment (after physician consult if necessary).
  • Provide wound care services as appropriate to licensure and training.
  • Dispense medication under M.D. supervision and administration of oral, I.M. and I.V. medication as ordered by M.D., NP, or PA.
  • Support case management for high-risk patients.
  • Facilitate patient/family group education sessions.
  • Coordinate patient flow and triage patients in the absence of the provider when provider is out or unavailable.
  • Update on-call providers daily on changing needs of complex, high maintenance, or high-risk patients.
  • Maintain infection control within the clinic.
  • Perform laboratory procedures when necessary.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
  • Handle protected health information (PHI) in a manner consistent with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

HIPAA Requirements:

The RN will use PHI to answer patient questions about their medical problems or plan of care, to triage and schedule appointments for urgent medical problems, to relay information from the health care providers to the patient and to provider nursing visits at patients’ homes. Applying the minimum necessary rules of HIPAA, the designated record sets to which this employee will have access include: scheduling, demographics, and view only patient account information in the practice management system, and the complete medical record, including confidential sections.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

· Proficiency in English and Spanish, both written and spoken language preferred.

· Commitment to providing quality health care to all.

· Demonstrated commitment to working with patients and staff from a wide range of ethnic, economic, cultural and social backgrounds.

Education and Experience Required:

· Current Oregon RN License.

Behavioral Competencies:

Accountability: Role model VG’s mission, vision, and shared values

Customer-Focus: Listen to the voice of the customer and strive to delight them by exceeding their expectations

Teamwork: If someone needs help, help them

Initiative: Be innovative, apply fresh ideas, and continuously improve how you do your work

Confidentiality: Maintain strict confidentiality and respect the privacy of others

Ethical: Demonstrate integrity, honesty, and stewardship in all encounters at work

Respect: Demonstrate consideration and appreciation for co-workers and patients

Communication: Demonstrate the ability to convey thoughts and ideas as well as understand perspective of others

Physical Requirements:

Percentage of time spent

· Standing: 10%

· Walking: 25%

· Sitting: 60%

· Lifting/Carrying: 5%

· Physically demanding tasks: Must be able to occasionally lift/carry up to 30 lbs. – supplies

Working Environment/Physical Hazards:

  • Work in well-lighted, ventilated environment
  • Exposure to blood borne pathogens and to potentially hazardous chemicals

Equipment Used:

Office Equipment

  • Computer
  • Telephone, fax, copier, scanner

Medical Equipment

  • Autoclave
  • Fetal Monitor
  • EKG
  • Pulse Oximeter
  • Audiometer
  • Nebulizer
  • 02 tank
  • Glucometer

Immunization:
Staff members must meet immunization requirements as stated in VGMHC’s immunization policy and state and federal guidelines.


Job descriptions represent a general outline of the essential and major job duties, functions and qualifications required. They cannot be all-inclusive and comprehensive due to the dynamic nature of work performed to accomplish VGMHC’s Mission.

VGMHC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No person is unlawfully excluded from consideration for employment because of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, veteran status, marital status, or physical challenges. The policy applies not only to recruitment and hiring practices, but also includes affirmative action in placement, promotion, transfer, rate of pay, and termination.

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