Registered Nurse

Purpose:

Under the direction of the Director of Nursing, the Level 1 RN functions as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team in providing the highest quality of care to the patient.

Key Job Responsibility Areas

Clinical Responsibilities
Documentation
Administrative
Miscellaneous
Detail of Key Job Responsibility Areas

1. Clinical Responsibilities

Assist providers in delivering patient care.

Explain procedures and treatments to patients to gain cooperation, understanding and allay apprehension
Aid providers during examinations and treatments
Observe patient and record significant reactions/conditions. Notify providers of reaction to drugs, treatments.

Work with the interdisciplinary health care team to facilitate care
Work with interdisciplinary health care team to keep patients engaged
Actively participate in quality improvement initiatives
Demonstrate positive communication and teamwork within clinic and between departments
Triage daily patient related telephone calls. Assign priority rating and refer to providers as needed. When appropriate resolve patient problem by communicating care instructions and/or advice.
Administer treatments, nursing interventions, injections, immunizations
Patient education on self-injection, new medications, or other treatments or issues related to care
Participate in QA/QI activities related to improvement initiatives
Demonstrate excellence in communication, professionalism, stress management, and teamwork
Expected to share knowledge ongoing across roles including orienting new nursing team members
As needed, perform duties of Medical Office Assistant and/or LPN
Room patients including taking vitals and updating patient information, collecting samples from patients such as urine. Perform tests such as EKG as required
Flex as needed to cover nursing absences and participate in nursing On-Call rotation
Practice within the NYS RN scope of practice and maintain annual competencies
2. Documentation

Document all patient care clearly, thoroughly, accurately, and timely
Maintain ongoing list of patients' preventative care needs
Complete documentation requirements in a timely manner per policy
3. Administrative

Serve as a resource for nursing teammates relative to documentation best practices.
Seek out opportunities to enhance education by attending >3 nursing or cross-department in-services and completing >12 total/year continuing education credits
4. Miscellaneous

Requires the ability and commitment to respect and support inclusiveness and diversity including but not limited to individuals of different backgrounds, cultures, races, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, experiences, opinions, etc.
Requires individual demonstration of commitment to the One Trillium behaviors and business impacts and modeling them in the organization.
Responsible for maintaining confidentiality of all patient, client, employee, protected and proprietary information.
Employees are accountable for meeting the performance standards of their departments and must participate as requested in compliance audits, process improvement and quality improvement plans.
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Must possess valid NYS RN license. Previous experience working in a hospital or clinic setting required. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS extremely helpful. Excellent written/oral communication and computer skills are required.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to stand, sit, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. Occasionally the employee must stoop, bend and lift or move up to 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

In support of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this job description lists only those responsibilities and qualifications deemed essential to the position.