RN Outpatient | Pediatric Specialty Clinic | PRN status

Job Description Summary:

Join our Pediatric Speciality Team in Helena!

Our Pediatric Specialty Care Clinic in Helena, MT, is looking for a dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse to support our endocrinology, diabetes, and rheumatology providers. This role will also support pediatric asthma and immunology with allergy testing. The RN Outpatient position is vital in ensuring our young patients and their families receive the best possible care in a welcoming and supportive environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Patient Support: Rooming patients, obtaining vitals, and ensuring a smooth clinical experience.

• Care Coordination: Assisting with prior authorizations, referrals, and insurance approvals to ensure timely patient care.

• Triage: Assessing patient needs and coordinating appropriate care and follow-up.

• Outreach Clinics: Occasional travel to our outreach locations in Great Falls, Missoula, or Kalispell to support specialty providers and patients.

• Team Collaboration: Working closely with providers, nurses, and administrative staff to enhance patient care and clinic efficiency.

If you’re looking for a meaningful role in pediatric specialty care with opportunities to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you!

The RN Outpatient Specialty role provides professional nursing care to patients in an outpatient ambulatory setting and coordinates care with other disciplines. Performs assessment of the individual patient, anticipates the needs of the care team and provides services while maintaining a safe environment.

Qualifications:

• Current Montana RN License or a multi-state compact license with authorization to practice nursing within the state of Montana; required.

• BSN degree preferred.

• Current HCP CPR certification required.

• Minimum of two (2) years’ nursing experience preferred.

• Current ACLS and PALS certification may be required in certain departments and successfully obtained within six (6) months of hire.

• Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, a self-starter, possess critical thinking skills and be able to set priorities and function as part of a team as well as independently.

• Commitment to working in a team environment and maintaining confidentiality as needed.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with various audiences.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.

• Possess and maintain computer skills to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn other software as needed.

Jo​b Specific Duties:

• Performs patient assessment. Utilizes all available sources of information and incorporates the patient’s perception of illness. 

• Develops an individualized plan of care for each patient and updates the plan throughout the visit as appropriate.

• Consistently identifies safety issues concerning the patient and staff during visit.  

• Independently reviews medication lists and provides ongoing medication or treatment education at the directive of physician or advanced practice provider.

• Coordinates with healthcare team to provide continuity of care.

• Participates in the development and delivery of education and competency validation of clinical staff.

• Utilizes department Standard of Care and individualizes care provided on an on-going basis per department standards.

• Administers medications per provider order.

• Demonstrates a commitment to professionalism while undertaking and completing all department competencies. 

The above essential functions are representative of major duties of positions in this job classification.  Specific duties and responsibilities may vary based upon departmental needs.  Other duties may be assigned similar to the above consistent with knowledge, skills and abilities required for the job.  Not all of the duties may be assigned to a position.

Maintains regular and consistent attendance as scheduled by department leadership.

PRN employee benefits:

• Matching 401(k)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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