Staff Nurse--Stamford

Overview

Job Description: Part time opportunity - Tuesdays and Wednesdays with one Saturday per month. The Primary Care Nurse (PCN) provides high quality, comprehensive, professional nursing primary care to individuals and families throughout the lifespan. As part of a clinical team, the PCN works at the top of licensure to enhance safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of care through professional nursing responsibilities and the delegation of technical and clerical functions as appropriate to medical assistants.

Provides patients with health education regarding preventive, chronic, and episodic health care issues. Coordinates care in collaboration with primary care providers, supports transitions between levels of care, and counsels, educates, and supports patients in improving health status. Applies principles of advanced access, planned care and the chronic care model, and rapid cycle performance improvement using the PDSA approach at CHCI.

• Support primary care of patients under planned care model.
• Collaborates with PCP to identify needs for preventive care, evidence-based chronic disease care, and care coordination.
• Provides general and specific health care education.
• Works with patients to identify and monitor self-management goals.
• Collaborates with care with other community-based providers.
• Follows up on emergency room visits and hospital discharges.
• Assists providers with exams, treatments, and procedures as needed.
• Ensures safe, accurate, clinically appropriate collection, storage, and processing of all biological specimens.
• Administers medications, including vaccines and immunizations, as ordered by prescribing provider and under standing orders as established by CHCI.
• Adheres to CHC protocols regarding documentation of medication, route, dosage, and information provided to patient.
• Monitors patient response to medication; detects, reports, and responds to adverse reactions.
• Provides patient education as appropriate to the administered medication.
• Performs nursing activities such as wound care, catheterization, etc., after initial prescription by primary care provider.
• Accurately documents all aspects of patient care in the medical chart on a timely basis.
• Schedules tests and referrals for specialty care on order of provider.
• Maintains strict infection control standards in accord with CHCI protocols and universal precautions OSHA and CLIA standards.
• Acts as a resource person for medical assistants regarding patient preparation, needs and procedures needed.
• Monitors and ensures follow up of abnormal Pap Smear results, STDs, lead screens and other tests and screens performed at CHCI.
• Oversees maintenance of supplies and equipment, ordering supplies as necessary.
• Maintains compliance with agency mandatory annual training (Patient Safety, Abuse, Age Based Competencies, EOC, Abuse trainings, etc.).
• Expert use of electronic health record to ensure timely, safe, confidential storage and retrieval of patient information.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Associate of Nursing (ASN).

Location: Community Health Center of Stamford - 5th Street

City: Stamford

State: Connecticut

Time Type: Part time

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