Team Nurse - Diabetes Nurse Educator

When you join the growing BILH team youre not just taking a job youre making a difference in peoples lives.

The Team Nurse position is responsible for performing the duties of a RN/LPN in an outpatient primary care or family medicine practice and serves as a clinical resource for the medical practice.

The Team Nurse provides high quality direct patient care in a team based model to our Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare ( BIDHC) patients. The Team Nurse is responsible for enhancing the safety effectiveness and efficiency of patient care through the support and delegation of clinical and administrative functions as appropriate to the Medical Assistant (MA) staff. Responsible for educating and training our MA team and patients with both general and focused health education for preventive chronic and episodic health care issues.

Assumes responsibility in collaboration with primary care providers to coordinate patient-centered care support transitions between levels of care and counsels educates and supports patients in improving health status.

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:
1. Coordinate and facilitate quality clinical management of a broad based outpatient population across the continuum of care. Collaborates with providers to identify needs for preventive care evidence-based chronic disease management and care coordination. Provides general and specific healthcare education. Works directly with patients to identify and monitor self-management goals. (essential)

2. Collaborates care with community based providers. Follows up on ED visits and inpatient discharges. Assists providers with exams treatments and procedures as needed. (essential)

3. Provides skilled telephonic triage and assessment education collaboration and coordination of healthcare and community resources. Performs a direct patient care role. Nursing visits include : Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) of our BIDHC patients. (essential)

4. Responsible for INR management and teaching for those patients on Coumadin using a standardized protocol. (essential)

5. Administers vaccines and medications by parenteral oral rectal or nasal route by orders of the prescribing provider and by the Medication Administration policy guidelines established by BIDHC . Provides patient education as appropriate for the administered medication. (essential)

6. Performs a wide range of nursing activities as needed under the direction of the provider such as wound care point of care testing etc. Accurately documents all aspects of patient care in the Electronic Health Record in a timely basis. Schedules tests and referrals for specialty care on order of provider. (essential)

7. Monitors and ensures follow up of all abnormal test and imaging results under the direction of the provider. (essential)

8. Oversees the inventory and ordering management of clinical supplies and equipment as necessary. Ensures safe accurate and clinically appropriate collection storage and processing of all biologic specimens. (essential)

9. Provides oversight delegation and acts as a resource to unlicensed staff including MAs Certified Nursing Assistants and Nursing Students. Provides on-going education and training to practice staff. Updates clinical knowledge and skills though consultation review of literature and formal and informal education including CEUs. Maintains compliance with organizational mandatory annual training. (essential)

10. The Team Nurse will ensure that PHI (Patient Health Information) will only be used for the purposes of patient TPO (treatment payment and operations). The Team Nurse will ensure patient safety practices to prevent/eliminate risk of patient harm. Adverse patient events and near misses will be promptly reported to the BIDHC Risk Management Dept. (essential)

Required Qualifications:
1. Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required. Bachelors degree preferred.
2. License Registered Nurse required. or Registration Licensed Practical Nurse required. and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
3. 1-3 years related work experience required.
4. CPR Certification
5. Strong interpersonal skills. Strong patient communication and patient education skills.

As a health care organization we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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