DescriptionPosition Highlights:
- Shift Schedule: (part time 20 hour)Varies
- Department: Wellness
- Location: Remote 1020 hours per week) plus inperson clinic float
- Must be bilingual English and Spanish
JOB SUMMARY:
Must be fluent in Spanish (both written and spoken)
The Wellness Registered Nurse (RN) will work with an employerbased client performing virtual care and coordination. Approximately 10 hours virtual and 10 hours inperson working in a clinic setting. The key objective is to develop positive relationships by creating value through protocoldriven care patient care virtually health coaching care coordination and education. The Wellness RN performs duties and conducts interpersonal relationships in a manner designed to project a positive image of the client and the department. Candidate must be able to communicate effectively at all levels throughout an organization and ensure that all business is conducted in a timely confidential courteous & professional manner.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and avalid license to practice as a Registered Nurse isrequired in the state or states where clinics are located. Associate degree or higher required. A bachelors Degree or higher in Nursing is preferred.
LICENSURE CERTIFICATION and/or REGISTRATION. Current license as a Registered Nurse (RN) from the State where clinics are located and Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required. A valid drivers license is required. In Wellness settings the following is preferred: Certified Health Coach. In Occupational Health settings the following is preferred: Certified Occupational Health Nurse (COHN) Certified Industrial Audiometric Technician and NIOSH Approved Spirometry Training.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Must be fluent in Spanish (both written and spoken)
- Provide remote nursing triage and support to participants selected by Client in states including North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia.
- Assist employees in obtaining appropriate care for needed services
- Provide coaching and education on lifestylebehaviors including healthy eating weight loss general wellness stress management and cessation of tobaccoalcoholandillicitdruguse
- Perform healthrelated research and provide education upon request (new diagnosis diagnosis of family member);
- Assist in healthcare navigation
- Assist with connection to community based service
- Screen for social determinants of health PHQ2 and PHQ9
- Facilitate connection to virtual services
- Referrals to existing benefitson the insurance plan
- Care coordination with primary care and specialists as needed
- Postvisit followup (internal and external appointments)
- Provides patient/familycentered care acting as partner and adviser assists and supports patients and families to optimally manage their health care respecting their culture and values individual needs health goals and treatment preferences
- Applies critical reasoning and astute clinical judgment in order to expedite appropriate care and treatment especially given that the patient may be present with complex problems or potentially lifethreatening conditions.
- Facilitates continuity of care using the nursing process multidisciplinary collaboration and coordination of appropriate health care services and community resources across the care continuum. Interacts with patients during facetoface encounters or through various telecommunication strategies often establishing longterm relationships.
- Focuses on patient safety and the quality of nursing care by applying appropriate nursing interventions such as identifying and clarifying patient needs performing procedures conducting health education promoting patient advocacy coordinating nursing and other health services assisting the patient to navigate the health care system and evaluating patient outcomes.
- Provides leadership in the clinical setting and provides operational accountability for and coordination of nursing services including the appropriate skill mix and delegation of roles and responsibilities for licensed and unlicensed nursing personnel.
- Designs administers and evaluates nursing services within the organization in accordance with relevant federal requirements state laws and nurse practice acts regulatory standards and institutional policies and procedures.
- Participates in regular team meetings and continuous quality improvement activities
- Participates in strategic planning for onsite client events
- Performs and maintains competency for point of care testing as assigned ensuring compliance with Atrium Health Point of Care policies and with applicable state and federal regulations
- Perform drug testing Pulmonary function testing Breath alcohol testing audiograms and fit testing
- Duties may require recordkeeping actively participating in safety meetings throughout areas of support educating patients on healthrelated topics and establishing healthy working relationships with patients and site management
- Evaluates the employees medical condition and ability to perform specific job functions
- Appropriately document all medical examinations tests consultations and evaluations
- Applies the provisions of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses to their own professional obligations and for the patients entrusted to their care. Participates in their own professional development by maintaining required competencies identifying learning needs and seeking appropriate assistance or educational offerings. Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model. Includes participating in shared governance adherence to standards of care participation in peer review and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence effective team skills autonomous practice and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking. Pursues lifelong learning that updates and expands their clinical organizational and professional roles and responsibilities.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
Ability to communicate effectively at all levels throughout an organization
Ensures business is conducted in a timely confidential courteous and professional manner
Knowledge of specific disease and lifestyle related topics such as smoking cessation weight management nutrition stress reduction and chronic conditions
Optimistic understanding innovative conscientious
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues patients and the public
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Clean welllit and comfortable environment
Low noise environment
Subject to high client flow varied needs for programs/offerings
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
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35 | 65 | 100 | N/A | Activity |
| X | | | Standing |
| X | | | Walking |
| X | | | Sitting |
X | | | | Bending |
X | | | | Reaching with arms |
| X | | | Finger and hand dexterity |
| | X | | Talking |
| | X | | Hearing |
| | X | | Seeing |
| | | | Lifting carrying pushing and or pulling: |
X | | | | 20 lbs. maximum |
X | | | | 50 lbs. maximum |
| | | X | 100 lbs. maximum |