About this role
Role:
Responsible for providing professional nursing care to the patient under the direction of a physician or health care provider.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
- Performs general nursing care to patients. Adjusts and/or administers prescribed medication and treatment in accordance with nursing standards and physician/provider's orders.
- Responds to all incoming telephone calls and patient needs. Interpret patient's symptoms and communicates them to the physician. Assess the patient's needs to provide the best care and advice
- Collaborates with physicians and nurses to devise individual care plans for patients.
- Perform routine procedures (blood pressure measurements, administering injections, ect) and documents findings in the patient's medical record.
- Inspect the facility and equipment and act to maintain excellent hygiene and safety (decontaminating equipment, sanitizing surfaces, ect)
- Maintaining personal contact with patients and relatives, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity, and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
- Storing and checking medication in accordance with established standards and guidelines.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for professional practice and continued professional growth. Attends all in-services and meetings as appropriate.
- Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time
Performance Measures:
- Performs all Essential Job functions and responsibilities.
- Maintains a professional and positive attitude, appearance and relationship with patients and staff.
- Observe all clinic guidelines and policies.
Qualifications
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience: Two years to five years of similar or related experience.
- Education: (1) A two year college degree or (2) Completion of a specialized course of study at a business or trade school or (3) Completion of a specialized and extensive in-house training or apprenticeship program.
- Interpersonal Skills: A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact. Work involves extensive personal contact with others and/or is usually of a personal or sensitive nature. Work may involve motivating or influencing others. Outside contacts become important and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary.
- Other Skills: Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye--hand coordination. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 50 lbs. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range. Requires working under stressful conditions or working irregular hours. Requires exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
This Job Description is not a complete statement of all duties and responsibilities comprising the position.