Registered Nurse-Urgent Care Croasdaile-PRN, 3/12's w/weekeds

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About Duke Primary Care

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Primary Care, which offers family, adolescent, and internal medicine services as well as urgent, general pediatric, and virtual care at nearly 50 clinic locations across central North Carolina.

 

Registered Nurse II- PRN Urgent Care Croasdaile, 3/12’s with weekends

 

Job Summary:

• Plan, provide and document professional nursing care in ambulatory settings, utilizing the nursing process, in accordance with physician orders and established policies and procedures, under the supervision of the nurse manager, charge nurse or practice manager.

•Collect and analyze patient data, make recommendations for nursing care plans, evaluate nursing care provided, document and communicate appropriately nursing actions taken and patient responses.

•Delegate tasks and supervise the activities of other licensed and unlicensed care providers.

•Assist other nursing personnel in the delivery of patient care and serve as a team leader.

•Monitor and initiate corrective action to maintain the environment of care, including equipment and material resources.

•Participate in own professional development by maintaining required competencies, identifying learning needs and seeking appropriate assistance or educational offerings.

•Support the development of other staff and formal learners. Participate in the identification of clinical, operational and safety related performance improvement opportunities.

•Participate in clinic or entity level performance improvement activities.

•Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

 

Knowledge, Skills, Education, and Experience Required:

•Knowledge of scope of the registered nurse, licensed practical nurse and all unlicensed assistive personnel

•Appropriate application of the nursing process Knowledge of professional theory, practice and procedures

•Assess nursing needs of acute and chronically ill patients and their families

•Independently seek resources and work collaboratively

•Establish and maintain effective working relationships Ability to communicate clearly with patients, families, visitors, healthcare team, physicians, administrators, leadership and others Ability to teach patients and families in accordance with the nursing plan of care

•Use sensory and cognitive functions to process and prioritize information, treatment, and follow-up

•Use fine motor skills

•Competent in BLS and/or other specialized life support requirements designated by work area or organization Ability to record activities, document assessments, plan of care, interventions, evaluation and re- evaluation of patient status

•Use the computer and learn new software programs Ability to document and communicate pertinent information using computer and/or paper documentation tools

•Navigate the entity to provide clinical care for patients Ability to withstand prolonged standing and walking with the ability to move or lift at least fifty pounds

•Ability to remain focused and organized

•Working knowledge of procedures and techniques involved in administering routine and special treatments to ambulatory patient’s Working knowledge of infection control procedures and safety precautions

•Working knowledge and completion of appropriate TJC and other regulatory requirements

•Graduation from an accredited Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (or higher), Associate's Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma program is required.

​All registered nurses without a Bachelor's degree in Nursing (or higher) will be required to enroll in an appropriate BSN program within two years of their start date and to complete the program within five years of their start date

 

 Pre-employment Physical Capacity Testing Required

 

Duke Health Highlights:

• In addition to our three hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics and outpatient surgery centers.
• Duke Primary Care is the largest primary care network in the greater Triangle area with family medicine and internal medicine providers, and pediatricians in nearly 30 locations throughout the region.

 

 

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race