Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:
Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization
Duties and Responsibilities
As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry -leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services.
Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:
Understanding and empathizing with client needs
Surpassing client expectations
Demonstrating a high level of integrity
Exhibiting compassion and commitment
Advocating for social justice
Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology
As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commies co adherence to these values co their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The RN will:
Work closely with the Patient/Client, the Client's Provider and other members of the interdisciplinary team in coordinating care and services.
Provide direct care and services to Patients/Clients as per organizational protocol, i.e. - insulin monitoring and injections, etc.
Complete a monthly summary progress note in the Client's medical record after performing a head-to-toe assessment on the Client.
Participate in the annual and/or change of condition re-assessment of residents as per Nurse Supervisor’s or Clinical Director’s request.
Update the resident 's service/care plan as needed and after a hospitalization, or a change of condition, to include special precaution such as behavioral plans, refusals of medication, crisis interventions and so forth.
Insure timely nursing and provider-ordered interventions
Initiate, maintain and discontinue alert charting for residents as per organizational protocol, developing and implementing interventions as appropriate to meet the resident needs.
Give/receive shift report to/from in-coming RN, LPN, CNAs and Med Techs on shift.
Supervise the on-floor work of LPN, CNAs and Med Techs to ensure quality care and services to all Residents, at all times.
Consistently practice Universal precautions and sterile technique, as required.
Demonstrate knowledge of quarantine/isolation in cases of infectious disease, with clear knowledge of routes of infection and barriers appropriate to each one.
Follow organizational protocol when handling emergency situations.
Demonstrate competency with administering injections, passing medications and doing treatments, both with the physical action and with the time management aspect of medication administration.
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the rationale for checking fasting blood sugars, administering insulin injections and performing food choice counseling for diabetic patients, as well as a competency with acts of the same.
Institute emergency nursing interventions as necessary; contact provider, family, others as per protocol.
Ensure that medication administration is documented according to protocol.
Ensure medication storage, maintenance, dispensation and waste logs…