Ambulatory Care Nurse *Full time*

Registered Nurse Opportunity at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic

Explore opportunities with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. Work with one of the nation's leading health care organizations and build your career at one of our 40+ locations throughout Houston. Be part of a team that is nationally recognized for delivering coordinated and accountable care. As a multi-specialty clinic, we offer care from more than 900 medical providers in 65 medical specialties. Take on a rewarding opportunity to help drive higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower total costs. The registered nurse is responsible for applying clinical nursing knowledge and skills to promote the safety and comfort of patients and families according to legal, organizational, and professional standards. The RN serves as a single point of contact for patients, their families, caregivers, and referring physicians to assist in accessing clinical and supportive services across the care continuum. This RN provides guidance to patients and families to improve their understanding and promote their participation with Palliative Care. Participate in patient care activities and adheres to requirement of a Registered Nurse when providing direct patient care both in the clinic and in the home.

• Ability to make sound nursing judgment based on nursing theory
• Develops and maintains collaborative relationship with a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the plan of care, including patient emergencies
• Prioritizes urgency of patients' needs and is a patient advocate and encompasses the continuum of illness including physical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient
• Performs in-person and telephone patient assessment and documentation via electronic medical record (EMR) with documentation that is legible, concise, accurate, and timely
• Adheres to scope of practice and policy to support and educate patients and families on symptoms and treatments through the end of life discussions, regarding advanced directives and informed consent
• Provides patients with verbal and written educational materials and promotes emotional support to patients related to the disease process, prescribed medication, and/or symptom management
• Accurately administers medication to Palliative Care patients as prescribed by the physician
• Ability to organize and utilize equipment and supplies according to patient needs and resources based upon the physician order
• Ability to consider needs of the department by preplanning and proactively adjusting as demonstrated by reviewing the EPIC daily schedule, rooming patients and travel with Physician as required for schedule home visits.
• Communicates all important facts and patient complaints to the nurse manager and or director

~10% Quality Improvement Activities:

• Actively participates in quality improvement activities, as evidenced by:
• Understands the Quality Improvement Process
• Identifies opportunity for quality improvement and makes appropriate suggestions to nursing management
• Participates in quality improvement projects as appropriate
• Completes assigned quality improvement tasks in a timely and accurate manner

~15% Customer Service:

• Maintains active professional relationships with physicians, co-workers, external customers, patients, and caregivers by assessing needs and levels of satisfaction. Identifies opportunities to enhance customer service, as evidenced by:
• Positive patient and physician satisfaction
• Serves as a role model to other staff members
• Demonstrates Kelsey-Seybold Clinic's Mission and Values
• Assumes responsibility of assigned clinic patients
• Ability to explain policies, procedures, and methods to others
• Assists in the orientation and training of new employees

~5% Resource and Inventory Management:

• Carefully uses supplies and medicines to avoid waste
• Stocks clinic with supplies as needed

~ 5% Regulatory Compliance:

• Complies with local, state, and federal rules and regulations and accreditation guidelines, as evidenced by:
• 100% of regulatory concerns or unusual occurrences are reported to the manager and or director
• When patient injury or disaster occurs the Manager and or Director is notified immediately
• Adheres to all facility safety regulations and guidelines related to patient safety. Maintains unit in safe condition, as evidenced by:
• Securing electrical wiring
• Reporting broken equipment
• Identifies, corrects, and reports unsafe conditions immediately

~20% Infection Control:

~ You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Graduate from an approved professional registered nursing program

• May consider an LVN-RN transition, with LVN 4+ years of experience
• Current and valid Texas RN license
• Proven ability to use equipment and related supplies
• EPIC experience oxygen administration, and intravenous therapy
• Basic computer skills

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Ambulatory Care or Hospital or Home Health experience

Specialty nursing certification in Palliative one appropriate to the specialty area assigned

Proven windows bases computer skills for selected patient population and for CPR

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The hourly pay for this role will range from $29 - $52 per hour based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes.