RN Triage Nurse

Triage Nurse

The role of the Triage Nurse is to provide patients with medical instruction and professional education pertaining to urological issues. The triage nurse will work under the supervision of a licensed physician to give assistance in determining the urgency of care needed. The Triage Nurse position requires a highly organized individual who can safely manage more than one task at a time and move efficiently throughout varied responsibilities. The Triage Nurse must be able to work independently as well as interact as part of a team, consistently demonstrating respect and consideration to all callers phoning into the practice.

What You'll Be Doing

• Reschedules, cancels and confirms patient appointments.
• Calls in prescriptions and authorizations for patients.
• Communicates accurate post-op instructions to the patients and/or their caregivers.
• Calls for x-ray results as well as schedules x-rays, CTs, ultrasounds, and scans; serves as a back-up to the testing scheduler.
• Determines urgency of medical issues and give instruction if familiar with patient's condition and situation.
• Calls for authorizations on x-rays or instructs scheduler to do so.
• Verifies new patient information and completes any missing information in patient's chart.
• Explains procedures, medications, and instructions to patients so that they are clearly understood.
• Answers phone lines for all other nurses and directs any questions to the appropriate nurse or physician.
• Assists nurses on the floor and performs other duties as assigned.

What We Expect from You

• Graduate of an accredited RN Program
• Current CPR certification
• Current NYS RN license
• At least one (1) year of medical/surgical experience is preferred

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have thorough knowledge in computer information systems.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Travel

Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be expected.

What We Are Offer You

At U.S. Urology Partners, we are guided by four core values. Every associate living the core values makes our company an amazing place to work. Here "Every Family Matters"

Compassion

Make Someone's Day

Collaboration

Achieve Possibilities Together

Respect

Treat people with dignity

Accountability

Do the right thing

Beyond competitive compensation, our well-rounded benefits package includes a range of comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, HSA / FSA, 401(k) matching, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more.

Salary Range: Please note that the hourly range for this position will vary based on experience level, education and geographical location.

$35.00 - $41.00 / hour

U.S. Urology Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.