TITLE: Registered Nurse 1 (NY HELPS) - 1 vacancy

UNIT: PEF

CLASS: Competitive*

HELPS CLASS: Non-Competitive

SALARY: Grade 6 - $65,001

LOCATION: Student Health and Wellness Center

Department Description: The Student Health and Wellness Center at the State University of New York at Oneonta invites applications for the position of Registered Nurse 1. This is a full-time, eleven-month position with the expectation of providing primary health care to college students.

The mission of the SUNY Oneonta Health and Wellness Center is to provide quality, evidence-based medical care to our students in a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment. We educate and empower students to make responsible, informed decisions about their personal health, and promote a healthy and health-conscious campus community. For more information about the University or Student Health Services, please visit www.oneonta.edu or https://suny.oneonta.edu/health-wellness-center

Duties Description: The registered nurse (RN) at the health and wellness center uses the nursing process to deliver high quality comprehensive and individualized care. Duties include:

• Provides accurate and effective triage, room students and collect history and vital signs.
• Performs nursing assessments, simple laboratory procedures, draws blood and administers injections.
• Appropriately follows protocol concerning documentation and communicating student health information to impacted stakeholders.
• Assists physician, physician assistants and nurse practitioners (providers) in providing health care and health information to students.
• Assists provider(s) with examinations and procedures.
• Counsels and educates students in preventative and self-care.
• Review students' health history, document pertinent information accurately in EMR.
• Assist with immunization compliance.
• Collaborates with members of the multidisciplinary team to support the work of the team, unit activities, and the accomplishment of positive student/patient outcomes.
• Delegates responsibilities to appropriate members of the care delivery team based upon an understanding of others' roles, scope of practice, knowledge, and capabilities to ensure optimal utilization of personnel.
• Contributes to a positive work environment by being responsive to the need for change.
• Maintains a collaborative work relationship with staff members through respect and recognition of cultural and human diversity.
• Successfully completes the competency-based orientation within designated time frame.
• Identifies self-learning needs and actively participates in meeting them in collaboration with the leadership team. Sets and achieves professional goals.
• Delivers excellence in patient care through compliance with all patient safety and regulatory initiatives.
• Communicates in a calm professional manner with patients, families, colleagues, members of the care team, and other health center personnel, accepts and elicits feedback, and works toward resolving problems and clarifying issues and concerns.
• Represents health center at fairs, orientation, and other appropriate campus events.
• Maintains and cleans autoclave.
• Assists with checking expiration dates, restocking and organizing health center supplies.
• Uses resources in a fiscally sound manner.
• Compliance with University, State and federal healthcare regulations.

Minimum Qualifications:

Competitive Qualifications:

Eligible for reassignment, transfer, or must meet the following minimum qualifications:

Possession of a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State.

Non-competitive Minimum Qualifications:

This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS).*To be considered for appointment through NY HELPS, candidates must meet the open-competitive minimum qualifications for this position.

Possession of a license and current registration as a registered professional nurse in New York State.

Preferred Qualifications:

• An associate or bachelor's degree.
• Licensure and Certifications: Must possess current New York State licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse and current BLS/AED healthcare professional certification.
• At least one year of experience as an RN working with child, adolescent &/or college age populations.
• Self-directed and flexible.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

REMARKS

This full-time, permanent position.

• For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, this title may be filled via a non-competitive appointment, which means no examination is required but all candidates must meet the minimum qualifications of the title for which they apply.

At a future date (within one year of permanent appointment), it is expected employees hired under NY HELPS will have their non-competitive employment status converted to competitive status, without having to compete in an examination. Employees will then be afforded with all of the same rights and privileges of competitive class employees of New York State. While serving permanently in a NY HELPS title, employees may take part in any promotion examination for which they are qualified.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the NYS Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@oer.ny.go