Registered Nurse Mobile Medical Van
Listed on 2025-12-03
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Nursing
Healthcare Nursing
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Description
CCAP Mission Statement - To empower all people and communities, challenged by poverty as well as social and cultural barriers, through advocacy, education, and access to high quality health and human services.
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Job Type
Full-time
Description
CCAP Mission Statement - To empower all people and communities, challenged by poverty as well as social and cultural barriers, through advocacy, education, and access to high quality health and human services.
Scope Of Assessment
Obtain detailed history of complaints, concerns, questions, problems from patients over the phone by following guidelines for phone triage. Assess the educational needs of patients, in collaboration with a provider and educate patients on selected health subjects.
Key Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Works under the direct supervision of the Nursing Director.
- Provides clinical and technical support for primary care providers.
- Triage's client phone calls providing advice and health care information or coordination and prioritization of sick Visits as needed based on client's complaints or needs.
- Acts as a resource person for medical assistants / reception staff providing support and guidance regarding clients medical / health care needs.
- Responsible for authorizing prescriptions on an independent basis with established standing orders and in accordance with CCAP policies and procedures.
- Reviews and categorizes labs, i.e., normal, abnormal needing immediate attention, etc.
- Must ensure the security of all medications at FHS, logging, tracking and disposal.
- When working within the Title X family planning program, any and all staff may be subject to prosecution if found to have coerced any person to undergo abortion or sterilization.
- The staff nurse must be able to perform and assume whatever major role is required or assigned that day.
The position is full-time, part-time when specified by the program director. Occasional unscheduled overtime. May be required to work in either Family Health Services’ locations at the discretion of the Director, the Medical Director or the Patient Care Coordinator.
Communication Skills
- Interpreting technical medical terminology daily.
- Use all available methods of communicating with patients, such as
- Interpreters, individual counseling, group discussions, written materials, and visual aids.
- Communicating and identifying cultural, social and economic character of
- the patient population served.
- Making independent medical decisions daily, example ordering U/A for UTI, throat cultures with standing orders by the Medical Director and in accordance with CCAP policy and procedure.
- Documents clearly and concisely all client interactions in the medical record.
Client Preparation:
- Prepares clients to be seen by primary care provider according to the policies and procedures.
- Greets clients warmly with an accepting manner, accurately obtaining chief complaint or nature of client's visit.
- Accurately performs measurements and clinical testing procedures according to policies and procedures.
- Assists providers with exams and minor surgical procedures as needed.
- Maintains universal precautions at all times.
- Completes all laboratory requisitions accurately.
- Facilities processing of all specimens.
- Administers vaccinations and injections, under the supervision of a provider and in accordance with agency procedures.
- Performs dressing changes independently after provider evaluation.
- Acts as a resource person for medical assistants regarding client preparation and procedures…
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