REGISTERED NURSE

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assists in development of care protocols, keys measures, and standards of care.
• Assists with establishment of program goals and objectives for patient care and management.
• Engages patient and family in the developing of health care strategies aimed at improving quality of life thru education, empowerment and access to appropriate health care services.
• Monitors trends and implements strategies to assist patients with accessing appropriate level of care.
• Assists in implementing team-directed improvements by using and teaching others the PDSA change model.
  
• Develops and conducts staff training as appropriate and necessary, to include introduction of new equipment, policies and procedures and all electronic patient care and practice management systems.
• Monitors patient electronic medical record and produces reports as requested.
• Follows data entry requirements based on BSHC protocol and policy.
• Tracks and reports established key measures for disease management, referrals and preventive care.
• Attends internal and external meetings as requested to accomplish patient care management program goals.
• Actively participates in performance improvement activities and a serves on the QI/Performance Improvement Committee as requested.
• Perform nursing duties as needed to facilitate care improvement and patient outcomes.
• Manages triage of walk-in patients.
• Responds to patient telephone calls (during and after office hours) based on BSHC policy.
• Performs after-hours on call duties as schedule indicates.
• Instructs patients regarding health promotion, lifestyle modification, disease prevention, self care necessary for certain conditions, and proper medication usage.  Reviews and explains further diseases patient may be diagnosed with.
• Coordinates patient flow through clinic.
• Provides nursing care according to the Kentucky Registered Nurse Scope of Practice.
• Prenatal workups (if applicable).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Licensed to practice as Registered Nurse in the state of Kentucky.
  
• BLS, ACLS and PALS certified.    
• Previous experience in Primary Care, ER or Med/Surg preferred.