What are the responsibilities and job description for the Triage Nurse RN position at Rockford Gastroenterology Associates, Ltd.?
Description
General duties and responsibilities:
Qualifications:
General duties and responsibilities:
- Reviews patient’s history and documents to make an accurate assessment.
- Completes nursing assessment, identifying, and documenting patient problems.
- Assesses nursing home patient history
- Check insurance with scheduling/patient accounts to where procedure can be done
- Check medications and follow-ups per protocol
- Review and obtain Advance Directives
- Obtain copies of medical device cards
- Assigns a triage priority to patients concerns based on available information
- Initiates diagnostic and therapeutic measures as indicated by standing protocols
- Acts as a liaison with patients, family and health professionals
- Coordinates the needs of the patient with supporting departments
- Charts concisely, descriptively to indicate patients progress or lack of progress
- Manages prescription refills per protocol
- Follow direction on Recall system
- Calls for or looks up test results, notifies patients of results in timely manner
- Sets up lab appointments
- Provides appropriate patient education as necessary
- Follows protocols for disease process
- Follows up on resources for patient and disease processes. Keeps physician informed
- Address patient phone inquiries – responds in timely manner
- Completes physicians’ orders per protocols
- Schedules testing at outside facilities
- Professional education – maintains knowledge base by attending mandatory and regular in-services
- Assists with patient referrals
- Demonstrates respect and understanding of confidentiality for patients, staff and others
- Other duties as assigned
- Demonstrates courteous and cooperative behavior in work setting; maintains good interpersonal relationships
- Actively participates in the Quality Assessment program
- Cooperates with other departments for coordinating patient care
- Precepts new employees
- Assists in implementing unit changes
- Adapts in changes in assignments and workload as necessitated by staffing changes and patient volumes
- Cooperates with Clinic Supervisor to assure adequate staffing
- Keeps Clinic Supervisor informed of personnel problems
Qualifications:
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing
- Current state license to practice as a Registered Nurse or a Licensed Practical Nurse.
- Experience in GI endoscopy preferred.
- Member in GI specialty or other local, state or national professional societies encouraged.
- Organizational skills and attention to detail highly recommended
- Good listening skills
- Must have good attendance
- Maintains Basic Cardiac Life Support certification
- Position requires full range of motion, frequent, standing, walking and sitting for extended periods of time
- Requires visual and hearing activity
- Exposure to bloodborne pathogens requiring the use of universal precautions and/ or protective equipment.
- Knowledgeable of potential exposure to hazardous materials (i.e., patient body fluids and disinfectant chemicals).
