Ambulatory Nurse Fellowship Full Time Day

Ambulatory Nurse Residency Program for Concord Hospital Health System including Concord Laconia and Franklin campuses is a 810 week comprehensive program where you will be in both classroom setting and primary care office setting. We aim to facilitate excellence in job performance for clinical new graduate RNs/ LPNs and nurses transitioning to an ambulatory environment through continued assessment learning and integration of best practice strategies for development and advancement of knowledge. Concord Hospital is invested in you and your success and your participation in the Ambulatory Nurse Residency Program is an investment in your future as a professional nurse.

Model:

• Classroom focused priorities 1 day a week to include: Triage Documentation Vaccine administration and Management clinical protocols.
• Shared experiential discussions to reflect on real practice situations/opportunities
• Utilize Simulation Lab for applicable coursework
• Taught and facilitated by Primary Care Clinical Leadership

Benefits:

• Provides additional support in a new role to increase comfort success confidence and satisfaction.

• Help develop relationships with other ambulatory nurses in Concord Hospitals Medical Groups

• Creates a place for extra Q&A and discussions for nurses that are needing additional help while they are getting comfortable in their new role.

• The material is developed inhouse by Concord Hospitals own nursing leadership to ensure all information is relevant accurate and you are receiving it firsthand.

• Provides additional opportunity for more handson learning outside of your on the job training.

• Nurses are provided tangible documents and learning materials to take back to their home office as reference material.

Summary

Reporting to the Clinical Leader or Clinical Manager and under the direction of the practice providers the Clinical Practice Nurse 1 delivers high quality patient care including assessment treatment planning and care evaluation. The Clinical Practice Nurse 1 uses knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span assesses clinical data reflective of the patients health status and interprets information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his/her age specific needs. The Clinical Practice Nurse 1 engages in caring relationships with patients families and caregivers works collaboratively with the health care team and uses sound judgments while performing nursing interventions.

Education

Minimum requirements: Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited School of Nursing.

Certification Registration & Licensure

Licensure required: New Hampshire Board of Nursing license

Certification required: Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification or Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers

Experience

Demonstrated ability to effectively and positively interact with a multidisciplinary staff patients and others.

Responsibilities

• Establishes priorities in organizing daily activities and maintains efficient patient flow.

• Triages patient phone calls following established guidelines and prescribed format for identifying patients health problems or concerns and providing quality patient care.

• Administers prescribed medications.

• Provides education to patients in response to identified patient needs.

• Documents health information interventions and outcomes into the patient electronic medical record.

• Delegates patient care activities using the five rights: right task person direction circumstance and

  supervision (ensuring the task has been completed satisfactorily and documentation is complete) and

  providing feedback to delegatee and manager.

• Applies principles of purposeful organized thinking based on the nursing process to make sound clinical judgment and decisions.

• Completes practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.

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Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is LIGHT. The employee must regularly lift carry or push/pull less than 10 pounds frequently lift carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift carry or push/pull up to 20 pounds.

While performing the duties of this Job the employee is regularly required to do repetitive motion hear and speak. The employee is frequently required to bend do fine motor reach sit stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to climb kneel smell and squat.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision depth perception far vision near vision and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to bloodborne pathogens bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne pathogens electrical hazards shock toxic or caustic chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.