Registered Nurse (Outpatient Care) at Ronin Group

Essential Functions: 
• Upholds Company’s Policies and Procedures, Core Values and competencies and applicable state, federal and local laws. 
• Performs assessment/data collection focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy. 
• Documents pertinent patient information, nursing procedures and patient responses in patients' medical record, following established company’s guidelines and maintaining patient confidentiality. 
• Establishes patient care priorities based on essential patient needs and availability of unit resources (time, personnel, equipment, and supplies). 
• Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them. 
• Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs. 
• Provides/coordinates care for patients/patient populations. 
• Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. 
• Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties/activities of health care team members. 
• Evaluates effectiveness of care given by team members. 
• Implements patient care functions including but not limited to: sterile wound dressing/packing, urine catheter insertion/removal, suture and staple removal. 
• Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority as appropriate. 
• Handles clinic use medication inventories and orders and replenishes medical supplies, medications, and materials throughout the day as needed. Maintains clinic inventory logs. 
• Prepares and administers medications per company’s standing orders and as directed by physician orders, in accordance to company’s policy and procedure. 
• Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified by client. 
• Leads efficiently in emergency situations following established protocols, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events. 
• Autoclave: oversight of process to ensure the cleaning, processing, sterilizing and checking of instruments is in compliance to meet audit and infection control requirements. 
• Immunization coordination: oversight of clinic’s daily routine workflow, excursion reporting process and emergency vaccine management plan. 
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice. 
• Participates regularly in staff development trainings and activities for clinic to support continuous quality improvement. 
• Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning. 
• Participates in unit and department Performance and Quality Improvement activities. 
• Participates in nursing research activities as requested. 
• Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests. 
• Demonstrates proficiency in the use of computers and telecommunication modalities in documenting, tracking and conveying information. 
• If practicing in a specialty/extended role, fulfills the expectations established for the particular role. 
• Perform other related duties as necessary. 
• This job has no supervisory responsibility. 
Customer Service/ Patient-Centered Care 
• Practices customer service standards as defined by client and specified clinic. 
• Anticipates the customer's needs, takes proactive steps to meet those needs, by listening and taking responsibility within scope to ensure issues are resolved. 
• Promptly responds to patient requests. 
• Facilitates the customer's ability to utilize resources. 
• Assures a clean, orderly, and functional work environment.