Team Nurse - Float

Team Nurse RN Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

This position will be floating to the following locations: Seabrook NH, Salem NH, Haverhill, Methuen, Andover, Amesbury and Newburyport. Reporting directly to the Practice Manager and Senior Director of Nursing, the Team Nurse RN position is responsible for performing the duties of a RN in an outpatient primary care or family medicine practice and serves as a clinical resource for the medical practice. The Team Nurse RN provides high quality, direct patient care in a team based model to our Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare (BIDHC) patients. The Team Nurse RN 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:

• 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.
• Collaborates care with community based providers. Follows up on ED visits and inpatient discharges. Assists providers with exams, treatments and procedures as needed.
• 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.
• Responsible for INR management and teaching for those patients on Coumadin using a standardized protocol.
• 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.
• 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.
• Monitors and ensures follow up of all abnormal test and imaging results under the direction of the provider.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Team Nurse RN will ensure that PHI (Patient Health Information) will only be used for the purposes of patient TPO (treatment, payment and operations). The Team Nurse RN 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
• License Registered Nurse in Massachusetts required and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
• 1-3 years related work experience required. Will consider new graduate RN's.
• CPR Certification
• Strong interpersonal skills. Strong patient communication and patient education skills.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.

Pay Range:

$32.24 - $55.32

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

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) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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