Staff Nurse - RN or LPN

The Staff Nurse is an integral member of the interdisciplinary health team and assumes responsibility for the standard of nursing care delivery in the clinic setting.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Registered nurse or Licensed Practical nurse currently licensed to practice in the state of Oklahoma
• Experience in ambulatory care
• Possess strong clinical and teaching skills.
• Able to assume a leadership role in a team environment.
• Strong interest in working with an interdisciplinary health team and culturally diverse patient population

SUPPORTIVE/CHARGE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works in harmony with others exhibiting a positive attitude and a commitment to the basic mission of the health center
• Proactively assumes the responsibility for the standard of nursing care delivery and customer service in the clinical areas.
• Knowledgeable of the scope of practice for all nursing disciplines as described by the Nurse Practice Act.
• Able to effectively plan, oversee, direct, and evaluate all nursing activities in the clinical area. Appropriately delegates tasks to team members to maximize resources.
• Assumes responsibility for and demonstrates ability to effectively organize and prioritize work and available resources to maintain efficient patient flow in the clinic.
• Manipulates the nursing schedule as necessary to maintain the best possible nurse/provider ratio, considering numbers, skill levels, cost effectiveness.
• Effectively manages completion of routine clinic tasks. Establishes methods to ensure consistency in maintaining emergency supplies, stock medications, vaccines, forms, sterile instrument inventory, equipment, appropriate exam room inventory, etc.
• Able to act as a primary resource in emergency situations.
• Actions show commitment to team effort, works well with others, supports group objectives, and participates in staff meetings and team problem solving.

Direct and Indirect Patient Care/Clinic Responsibilities:

• Follows protocols and performs accurate and thorough work-ups and check-ins of all patients.
• Accurately assesses current patient status as well as preventive health status and communicates needs to provider.
• Initiates and provides accurate patient education based on assessment of patient needs and clinic standards of nursing care, and documents in patient record.
• Provides skilled nursing care as demonstrated by safely and accurately performing technical skills (sterile dressings, EKGs, pulmonary treatments, etc.) and the safe accurate administration of medications, IV fluids, and immunizations.
• Anticipates the needs of providers related to patient visits and assists providers as needed.
• Exhibits caring qualities consistent with the values of the Great Salt Plains Health Center.
• Assumes role of patient advocate to ensure health needs are met, to include responding to patient phone messages and requests in a timely and professional manner.
• Documents all provider orders, nursing actions, and interventions on patient record consistent with guidelines, and utilizes approved abbreviations.
• Appropriately triages patients on-site and via telephone during hours of operation and after-hours when on-call for appropriateness and timeliness of care per approved triage protocols and standing orders.
• Knowledgeable of and follows all established Infection Control guidelines and OSHA standards and participates in staff training events.
• Performs approved laboratory testing, to include proper handling and labeling of all test samples, according to health center policy and procedure, and as allowed by CLIA guidelines.
• Keeps patients and families informed of situations that affect the clinic visit, i.e., extended waiting times, seeing provider other than originally scheduled, etc.
• Performs other duties incidental to work.

Maintains Professional Standards:

• Meets deadlines to maintain current license and required annual training
• Utilizes the Performance Improvement processes in identifying the clinic needs related to any aspect of patient care and customer service.
• Demonstrates flexibility in work roles and schedules to meet the changing needs of the health center.
• Maintains awareness of new information applicable to job, i.e., policies, meeting minutes, procedures, memos, protocols, and online training courses.
• Utilizes slow times constructively to enhance clinic operations; assists other departments when time and workload permits.
• Maintains professional appearance and follows established dress code.
• Promptly informs supervisor of real or potential clinic problems. Maintains confidentiality of patients and staff.
• Employee actively pursues continuing education to improve job skills and performance.
• Able to identify own areas of needed improvement, formulates goals and actively works toward those goals.
• Utilizes appropriate methods to deal with stressful situations.
• Understands organizational goals and performs job duties in a manner consistent with these goals.
• Can be relied upon to meet work schedules and fulfill responsibilities and commitments, attendance, punctuality, dependability, initiative, productivity, and efficiency.