Registered Nurse
7 days ago
Excela Health is seeking a highly skilled Registered Nurse to join our team in Family Medicine. As a key member of our healthcare team, you will provide direct patient care, perform various medical procedures, and collaborate with physicians to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
Responsibilities- Deliver high-quality patient care, adhering to the RN Practice Act, hospital, and physician practice policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Collect patient health data, including vital signs, weight, chief complaint, and pain assessment, focusing on physical, psychosocial, age, cultural, and spiritual needs.
- Complete initial assessments of patients' health history, learning needs, and barriers, physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs, and reassess annually.
- Involve patients and families in the care process, as appropriate.
- Administer medications and immunizations using appropriate routes and techniques, specific to the patient's age.
- Comply with completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of documentation.
- Provide education and instruction to patients and families, within your scope of practice.
- Maintain a collaborative relationship with physicians to achieve desired patient outcomes.
- Prepare patients for examinations, treatments, and procedures.
- Assist physicians with treatments and procedures, as requested.
- Provide for patient safety, in compliance with hospital and physician practice policies.
- Utilize two forms of patient identification before implementing any form of patient care.
- Label all patient specimens with identifiers, per policy.
- Use patient identifiers on all written documentation, including notes and point-of-care testing results.
- Assist in compliance with all regulatory agency requirements.
- Adhere to infection control processes, including standard precautions, to reduce the risk of acquiring or transmitting infections.
- Participate in non-punitive medication reporting.
- Demonstrate leadership by utilizing the concepts inherent to the practice of professional nursing.
- Demonstrate an ability to solve problems independently and seek assistance from your immediate supervisor, when appropriate.
- Maintain accountability for actions taken.
- Delegate patient care, appropriately.
- Effectively function as a resource person.
- Act as a patient advocate.
- Perform effectively in the role of preceptor/mentor to new hires and/or students.
- Assist in maintaining/decreasing organizational/departmental costs.
- Coordinate communication between patients/families and physician practice, pharmacies, specialists, and insurance carriers.
- Provide advice, based on protocols and physician instructions, and direct patients to the appropriate level of care.
- Facilitate patients' access to prescription refills, based on physician order.
- Obtain prior authorizations and/or assist with indigent programs, per physician order, based on the patient's financial status or insurance coverage.
- Support performance improvement initiatives within the physician practice.
- Assist in data collection, as directed by the manager/physician.
- Incorporate into practice performance improvement initiatives that have been implemented.
- Maintain the environment of care.
- Ensure that supplies in patient care areas are replenished daily.
- Consistently maintain a clean, safe environment.
- Follow policies pertaining to daily/weekly/monthly quality control for refrigerator temperature, and equipment controls.
- Perform point-of-care testing, as ordered by the physician.
- Complete all quality control testing, per policy and manufacturing guidelines.
- Use two patient identifiers, name and DOB, prior to testing.
- Follow appropriate procedures when collecting patient specimens.
- Accurately record patient test results on the appropriate result form and testing log.
- Identify results that are out of acceptable range and follow up, prior to performing patient testing.
- Prepare forms, copy records, and respond to requests, per policies and procedures.
- Assist in maintaining the patient's record, to facilitate filing and retrieval of information.
- Participate in staff education.
- Perform other duties, as assigned.
- Graduate of an accredited Nursing Program, required.
- Strong leadership ability, independent thinking, and decision-making ability; analytical problem-solving skills, sound judgment; excellent oral and written communication skills, must be able to function in a team environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, preferred.
- Previous experience in an outpatient office setting.
- Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Pennsylvania, required.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) approved curriculum of the American Heart Association (CPR and AED) program, required.
- Act 33 with renewal.
- Act 34 with renewal.
- Act 73 Clearances.
This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities, but may serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department.
Position Type/Expected Hours of WorkIncumbent will be scheduled based on operational need (rotate shifts, standby, on-call, etc.).
LEANActively promotes a Lean work culture by performing team member duties to encourage consistent use of LEAN principles and processes, including continually seeking work process improvements. Recognizes the necessity of taking ownership of one's own motivation, morale, performance, and professional development. Strives for behavior consistent with being committed to Excela's missions, vision, and values.
AAP/EEOExcela Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of Excela Health to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, non-job-related disability, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other protected class. Excela Health will conform to the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.
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