About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses.
Responsibilities
- Provide care to individuals or defined patient populations through the use of telecommunications or face-to-face interactions, in accordance with computer-based algorithms, protocols, or guidelines
- Use critical thinking and communication skills to assess, plan, implement, educate and evaluate patient outcomes
- Perform care coordination and professional nursing functions to assess the severity of the patient’s health concerns using protocols and algorithms in a manner that provides patient dispositions to emergency care, clinic provider appointments, and triage nurse clinic services within the scope of the licensed practice
- Be part of a care coordination team supporting general care processes alongside the providers
- Manage nurse-directed patient telephone calls and walk-in patients requesting health care services
- Evaluate and assess patient’s health care needs based on patient’s signs and symptoms utilizing established triage protocols and guidelines
- Obtain appropriate input and direction from the provider, as needed, to determine best clinical course of action and recommendations for specific patient health care needs
- Accurately document symptoms/complaints, nursing assessment, advice provided and patient/caller response
- Follow policies, procedures, and protocols to ensure consistency and departmental effectiveness, as well as, improve health care outcomes of patients/callers and their access to appropriate health care
- Coordinate and schedule same-day and walk-in appointments on the provider schedules
- Utilize standing orders, triage protocols and algorithms appropriately
- Monitor patient flow in the clinic; ensure that patients receive all recommended services in a timely manner
- Provide patient education, as needed: e.g. chronic disease, preventive and family
- Administer certain medications, injections, immunizations and family planning options as ordered by provider
- Assure that pertinent medical information is forwarded to proper departments as needed for continuity of patient care
- Document in electronic health record (EHR); triage assessment, plan, implementation, evaluation, and follow-up
- Perform other nursing functions as assigned, as needed
- Assist providers with special procedures as needed
- Help manage prescription refills, per protocol
Requirements
- Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the State of Nebraska
- Certified – Basic Life Support
- Computer skills required
- Excellent problem solving skills
