About This Position

Job Description:

Registered Nurse Senior

Purpose:

Under general supervision, provide advanced preventive, therapeutic, and restorative nursing care and services

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:

Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

• Interview patients and review records to ascertain medical history, current physical condition, symptoms of illness, etc

• Obtain routine information such as height, weight, temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and provide basic physical assessment.

• Assess physical condition of patient using observation, inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion.

• Assess the physical, social, and emotional needs of patients and families in clinics or in their homes.

• Develop a health care plan in cooperation with the patient/family, significant others, and members of the health care team.

• Formulate, direct and/or execute plan of care and any needed interventions.

• Provide nursing care, which may include immunizations, phlebotomy, collecting urine, hemotocrit tests, routine tests, specialized tests, vital signs, pregnancy tests, dipstick urinalysis, and prepare other specimens.

• Counsel client and family concerning health assessment and care.

• Teach and counsel patients, families, and groups on the prevention of disease, disability, hygiene, and health maintenance.

• Refer patients and families to other services or for follow-up treatment based on assessment of health care needs.

• Maintain complete and accurate records, logs, and statistics of patient status and care provided.

• Monitor work to ensure quality assurance or other standards are met.

• Prioritize the workload and referrals made to other co-workers/services.

• Work in collaboration with management to develop and implement protocols, policies, and procedures

• May identify patients/groups with potential high risk of physical and emotional illness through analysis of statistical records.

• May conduct investigations and provide instructions in preventive measure of communicable diseases, immunization programs and casework.

• May coordinate daily clerical activities including setting patient appointments and scheduling providers.

• May maintain patient follow-up procedures, including broken appointment and abnormal lab follow-up procedures, immunization tickler/tracking system, abnormal laboratory results, and maintains patient tickler file.

• May assist in developing and implementing a nursing quality improvement component to monitor the deliver of nursing triage services

• May perform triage activities by telephone or in person by making referrals and providing appropriate medical advice and assistance as required

Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:

May provide leadership, guidance, and technical support to others.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of public health nursing.

• Knowledge of information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat injuries and diseases.

• Knowledge of related cultural, social, environmental and economic forces in family and group relationships.

• Knowledge of medicines and their application for treatments.

• Knowledge of holistic health care treatments.

• Knowledge of instruments and equipment used in providing routine and specialized patient care.

• Knowledge of current community resources available.

• Skill in providing nursing care, customer service, and personal services

• Skill in setting priorities and making judgments concerning health care.

• Skill in teaching and interviewing techniques.

• Skill in effectively instructing and directing the work of others.

• Skill in recording and reporting accurate information.

• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with patients, families, community groups and organizations, physicians, City employees, and the general public.

• Ability to communicate information and ideas.

• Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented.

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