Position Summary:
Under direct supervision and within established scope of practice, the Ambulatory Care Registered Nurse ensures the delivery of patient-centered services as directed by San Ysidro Health policies and procedures in a clinic setting.
Essential Functions of the Job:
Upholds San Ysidro Health’s Policies and Procedures, Core Values and competencies and applicable state, federal and local laws.
Performs assessment/data collection focusing on physiological, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also, nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
Documents pertinent patient information, nursing procedures and patient responses in patients' medical record, following established SYH guidelines and maintaining patient confidentiality.
Performs data collection focusing on physiology, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual, and cognitive status; also, nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
Completes chart preparation and management for scheduled patients.
Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties/activities of health care team members
Ability to work and support other ambulatory care roles in clinic
Establishes patient care priorities based on essential patient needs and availability of unit resources (time, personnel, equipment, and supplies).
Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them.
Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
Provides/coordinates care for patients/patient populations.
Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families.
Follows SYH process for communicating patient test results and follow-up.
Interviews patients, measures vital signs, and other pertinent information as required by specific clinic.
Implement patient education techniques such as health coaching and teach back to support self-management. Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them.
Implements patient care functions including but not limited to sterile wound dressing/packing, urine catheter insertion/removal, suture, and staple removal.
Performs point of care testing, including but not limited to urine tests, pregnancy tests, A1C, and others as directed
Handles clinic use medication inventories and orders and replenishes medical supplies, medications, and materials throughout the day as needed. Maintains clinic inventory logs.
Prepares and administers medications per SYH standing orders and as directed by physician orders, in accordance with SYH policy and procedure.
Leads efficiently in emergency situations following established protocols, informing appropriate people, and documenting events.
Autoclave: oversight of processes to ensure the cleaning, processing, sterilizing, and checking of instruments is in compliance to meet audit and infection control requirements.
Assists the physician with therapeutic and diagnostic patient care functions which may require sterile technique, wound care, urine catheter insertion/removal, wound care, inhalation treatments, minor surgery support, removal or application of dressings, EKG, visual testing, and audiometric testing.
Follow Infection Control policy and procedures guidelines, including aseptic techniques
Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified by San Ysidro Health.
Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice
Follow all SYH ambulatory care policies, and established workflow process
Immunization coordination: oversight of clinic’s daily routine workflow, excursion reporting process and emergency vaccine management plan.
Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority as appropriate
Participate regularly in staff development training, meetings and activities for clinics to support continuous quality improvement.
Assist with annual…