RN Clinic II
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Overview
Registered Nurse Clinic Wound Care Center
Full Time 80 Hours Per Pay Period Day Shift
Morristown Hamblen Overview:
MorristownHamblen Healthcare System has167 licensed beds and 23 emergency suites. The hospitaloffers outstanding ancillary services including Laboratory Radiology and Therapy our Breast Imaging Center of Excellencewomen can have their annual mammograms biopsiesand can meet with a nurse navigator if needed. The Womens Center offers six newly remodeled labor and delivery suites and has a secure nursery for the care of our newborns. It serves an eightcounty region in the Lakeway Area and is equipped with modern technologies and expert staff to provide the best possible patient care. Learn more about our amazing facility at Summary:
Provides professional nursing care within an outpatient clinic setting and coordinates care planning with other disciplines as appropriate.
Recruiter: Jennifer Lawless
Responsibilities
- Adheres to established departmental policies and procedures objectives quality assurance program and safety standards.
- Precepts new employees/students as needed. Reviews clinical performance of preceptee with office manager or clinical instructor/supervisor.
- Cooperates with other personnel to achieve department objectives and maintain good employee relations interdepartmental objectives and infection control policies.
- Prepares patients for scheduled procedures and assists in patient assessment. Accurately records history and performs basic triage procedures per policy.
- After retrieving condition of patients creates nursing history and discusses recommendations for appropriate interventions to appropriate practitioner.
- Clinical expertise and knowledge is such that individual can resolve complex patient/management/physician problems without direct supervision
- Demonstrates sensitivity to patients comfort and privacy by using the AIDET fundamentals of communication.
- Assists providers with examinations procedures and other processes related to direct patient care.
- Maintains a safe comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients/families during their visit.
- Monitors and ensures accuracy of recording on patient medical records. Maintains all required reports records statistics etc.
- Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and wellmaintained equipment.
- Inspects area daily for compliance with policies procedures regulations and standards and takes corrective action when violations occur.
- Schedules all outside patient appointments per physician order and relays accurately to patients.
- Take calls from hospitals/nursing homes and relays appropriate information to practitioner in a timely manner.
- Assure test results are received and relayed to the patient in a timely manner.
- Completes medical orientation checklist.
- Initiates appropriate patient education.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members.
- Implements care appropriate to diagnosis and per physician order.
- Problem solves and coordinates clinic patient care with physician supervision.
- Demonstrates competence in performing skills to include appropriate delivery of care according to the agespecific needs of the population served.
- Maintain professional growth and development through seminars workshops and professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in field of expertise.
- Collaborate with the patient physician and other care team members as part of a teambased approach to overall patient care.
- Follows policies procedures and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
None specified; however must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience:
Minimum of three 3 years of professional nursing experience. Minimum 1 year of wound care experience preferred.
Licensure Requirement:
Must have a valid Tennessee RN license. CPR OSHA training annually.
RN License
Employment Type
Full-Time
