Affiliate Registered Nurse- Float
Full-Time
Bakersfield, CA
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
General Duties
- Travels to PPMM locations as required
- Responsible for assuring non-licensed staff are qualified in performing back office/lab skills and
achieve core competency levels on an annual basis
- Provides input for the medical component of the non-licensed staff performance reviews
- Oversees patient triage for medical problems and acute versus routine appointments for both
reproductive health and primary care patients
- Works with Center Manager or designee to facilitate flow and triage
- Contributesto achieving health center productivity goals
- Demonstrates PPMM customerservice standards
In Clinic Abortion Duties
- Prepares recovery room for all in clinic abortion services
- Prepares pre-operative medications
- Assess post-operative patients for pain and bleeding control and early detection of complications
- Oversees HSS functions: vital signs, post-operative instructions, education of patient identified birth
control method
- Provides intraoperative sedation medication and patient monitoring
- Provides post-operative medications
- Maintains and ensures emergency cart and equipment are stocked and current
Sexual and Reproductive Health Duties
- Follows standardized procedures for the following patient visits: hormonal contraception, Emergency
Contraception (EC), and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) screening
- Provides patient education, counseling, lab work and ultrasound for medication abortions
- Provide immunizations per approved guidelines and standardized procedures, such as HPV
vaccination
Centralized Follow-Up RN
- Accepts and signs-off GC/CT, pap and other designated lab reports from clinician’s PAQs
- Evaluates and develops plan for follow up
- Refers paps/other labs that are outside the scope of CFU RN to the health centers’ clinicians
- Verifies that all lab reports are handled appropriately and within the appropriate time frame
Triage RN- Response Center
- Provides advice/triage services to both reproductive health and primary care patients
- Identifies medical urgency and schedules appointments with the health centers
- Answers all calls placed in queue by Response Center as outlined in the Triage Policy
- Responds to patient emails through the Patient Portal in HER
QUALIFICATIONS
Ability to perform the duties described above. A typical means of acquiring those abilities would be:
- Ability to perform the duties described above. A typical means of acquiring the abilities would be:
- Graduation from an accredited Nursing Program
- Current CA State RNlicense
- Current BLS Certificate
- Current ACLS Certificate
REQUIREMENTS
- Current experience using computer and mouse
- Experience using a Microsoft Windows based program and willing to learn new computer skills
- Willingness to work flexible hours and locations
- Strong customer service orientation
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel throughout the assigned region on a weekly basis
- Ability to communicate effectively