What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN | Laconia ENT | Full Time | 4 Day week! position at Concord Hospital?
Summary
The Clinical Practice Nurse 1 plays a vital role in patient care by administering injections, conducting allergy testing, performing pulmonary function tests (PFTs), and providing Ameluz treatments. In addition to hands-on clinical procedures, this role involves triaging patients to assess and prioritize their needs. Under the direction of practice providers and reporting to the Clinical Leader or Clinical Manager, the nurse delivers high-quality care through assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation. Utilizing a strong understanding of patient growth and development across the lifespan, the Clinical Practice Nurse 1 interprets clinical data to tailor care to each patient’s specific needs. This role requires collaboration with the healthcare team, fostering compassionate relationships with patients and their families, and exercising sound clinical judgment in all aspects of patient care.
Education
Minimum requirements: Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited School of Nursing.
Certification, Registration & Licensure
Licensure required: New Hampshire Board of Nursing license
Certification required: Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification or Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers
Experience
Demonstrated ability to effectively and positively interact with a multi-disciplinary staff, patients, and others.
Responsibilities
- Establishes priorities in organizing daily activities and maintains efficient patient flow.
- Triages patient phone calls following established guidelines and prescribed format for identifying patient's health problems or concerns, and providing quality patient care.
- Administers prescribed medications.
- Provides education to patients in response to identified patient needs.
- Documents health information, interventions, and outcomes into the patient electronic medical record.
- Delegates patient care activities using the five rights: right task, person, direction, circumstance, andsupervision (ensuring the task has been completed satisfactorily and documentation is complete) andproviding feedback to delegatee and manager.
- Applies principles of purposeful, organized thinking based on the nursing process to make sound clinical judgment and decisions.
- Completes practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.
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Physical and Work Requirements
The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is LIGHT. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull less than 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 pounds.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do repetitive motion, hear, and speak. The employee is frequently required to bend, do fine motor, reach, sit, stand, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to climb, kneel, smell, and squat.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.
The employee is frequently exposed to bloodborne pathogens, bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne pathogens, electrical hazards - shock, toxic or caustic chemicals.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
