Clinic Coordinator/Lead Registered Nurse (Registered Nurse III), Student Health Center

Job Summary:

Under the general direction of a medical provider and the Executive Director, the Registered Nurse III (RN III) is responsible for the development and implementation of nursing standards, policies, and procedures for the Student Health Center (SHC), and oversees and directs the nursing services for one or more specialty areas for the SHC. Coordinates the clinical operations in collaboration with the Medical Chief of Staff and the Executive Director.

Major duties and responsibilities:

Nursing Lead

• Functions as nursing clinical lead; implements independent decisions based on the day-to-day clinic needs in the Student Health Center (SHC). Adjusts the clinical schedule when possible to balance provider time based on patient acuity and utilization.
• Assists with coordinating special program needs to meet student admission requirements such as Nursing Department physical examinations, international student immunization requirements.
• Holds regular Nursing Staff Meetings to provide nursing updates; ensures meeting minutes are documented.
• Schedules and assigns Nursing work to ensure adequate coverage, training and orienting employees, and providing input to employee selection and performance evaluations; identify professional growth and development needs for assigned staff and communicate needs to supervisor; develop and implement in-service training.
• Coordinates daily nursing operations and ensure appropriate staffing levels to meet clinic needs.
• May assist in developing and monitoring the nursing budget.
• Accreditation: developing nursing standards, policies, procedures, protocols and standing orders in collaboration with other team members; Maintenance of logs and facility compliance with accreditation standards.
• Addresses patient concerns, refers to administrator when warranted.

Clinic Coordination/Special Projects

• Serve as liaison between nursing staff, providers, front office and other clinical team members to ensure effective communication in support of patient care; review schedules to anticipate staffing shortages or other challenges in order to avert them or plan ahead; lead weekly team meeting.
• Oversees the vaccine program, including but not limited to, overseeing proper storage/handling/administration and staff-related training · Leads and coordinates specialty clinics (e.g., flu vaccine), health fairs and student orientations.
• Assists in the implementation and operationalization of new services and the ongoing improvement of current ones.
• Leads Nursing Peer Review and Quality Improvement and collaborates with other team members on Emergency Preparedness, Infection Control & Prevention and Accreditation
• Assists in monitoring compliance with infection control and prevention policies and procedures.
• Participates in clinic and staff conferences and other presentations when appropriate.

Nursing Triage/Back up Nursing Coverage

• Serve as Nurse Lead for triage questions.
• Serve as back up triage RNs as needed.
• Utilizing established triage protocols, functions as the telephone/walk-in triage nurse by assessing patients’ signs and symptoms to determine appropriate disposition (schedules same-day, urgent or future appointments using electronic health records system) and/or treatment. Utilizing standing orders provides first aid to student, staff, faculty and campus visitors.
• Per provider request, will contact patients to give information regarding referrals, prescriptions, recheck appointments.
• Provide sexual health education, counseling and care, including administration of medication abortion services.
• May serve as backup in preparing patients for telehealth and medical examinations and treatment · May perform routine laboratory testing (e.g., urinalysis); may obtain lab samples obtained my medical providers for pick up by the lab.
• Assists with medical examinations and procedures as requested by medical providers.
• Provides education counseling on a wide variety of health topics (e.g., STIs, contraception)
• ·Responsible for following Tuberculosis Screening Guidelines – administering PPDs, ordering chest x-rays, ordering laboratory testing and facilitate follow up appointments for patients, when needed.
• With prior approval from individual providers, communicate normal lab results to students; for results outside of normal limits, facilitate appointment scheduling with a provider.
• Under standing orders will evaluate requests for HCG including patient assessment, testing, pregnancy options counseling, and appropriate referrals.

Other

• Serve on clinical team and related search committees.
• Engage in professional development activities to remain up-to-date and to m