Job Summary: Position reports to clinical nurse manager with input from assigned physician, nurse practitioner, or other health care providers. Responsible for contributing to the smooth delivery of excellent patient care. Develops appropriate relationships with patients, families, and colleagues as a team member providing the highest quality patient care and contributes toward the attainment of important goals for the patient and the practice.

Essential functions

• Recognizes that the patient is always first
• Incorporates the scope and standards of practice for the professional ambulatory care nurse
• Requires expert, skillful, rapid assessment and triage competencies of patient problems and needs.
• Focuses on wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention
• Applies nursing interventions to human responses in health, illness, disease, disability, and end of life circumstances
• Utilizes the nursing process to facilitate decision making by performing problem focused assessments of patients and/or parents primary concerns, identify problem(s), analyze and integrate subjective and objective data, decide on a plan of nursing action, apply appropriate nursing intervention, evaluate outcomes
• Provides patient teaching related to wellness, disease, and/or disability management
• Values patient advocacy, communicates trust and respect
• Recognizes the dynamic nature of the scope of the ambulatory care nurse
• Performs and documents assigned procedures, including but not limited to: vital signs, throat cultures, injections, dressing changes, urine dipstick, and vision/hearing screenings.
• Acts as a liaison between patients and providers
• Prepares patients for exams and treatments, assisting provider in medical procedures and treatments
• Demonstrates leadership behaviors i.e. collaborates with colleagues, supervisors, other professionals, and coworkers to build and maintain effective, dynamic professional team relationships
• Sets up and restocks exam rooms. Maintains order and cleanliness of rooms and common lab areas and restrooms
• Communicates restocking needs to the front desk supervisor
• Maintains equipment in proper working order, including cleaning and sterilizing of instruments
• Maintains competencies in conducting in house labs, quality control, vaccine management and administration
• Maintains a safe hazard-free environment that is comfortable for patients, visitors, and staff
• Monitors waiting room for cleanliness and patient needs
• Fiscally responsible in the use of supplies
• Incorporates flow into daily work, participates in planned change
• Participates in staff meetings
• Other duties as assigned
• Maintains annual educational requirements

Required qualifications

• Current Massachusetts RN license
• Current CPR certification
• One year of experience in a practice setting is preferred
• Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations
• Ability to interpret, adapt, and apply guidelines and procedures
• Knowledge of medical equipment and instruments
• Ability to communicate effectively in English both orally and in writing
• Experience with computers, web based programs, EMR
• Comply with all PPA policies and procedures

Physical demands

• Requires prolonged standing and walking
• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination
• Requires normal range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare, and communicate appropriate information, reports, and forms
• Requires exposure to communicable disease and bodily fluids