Sexual Health Nurse Coordinator

Overview

Job Summary
The Sexual Health Nurse Coordinator provides patient-centered nursing care in the specific setting of addressing sexual health testing, treatment, and prevention needs. This role is integral to collection of patient history and testing/samples necessary for patient care, advising patients on implementing guideline-based care, and appropriate billing to insurance or contracts/grants. In conjunction with another Sexual Health Nurse Coordinator, this position is uniquely responsible for staffing and operating the daytime Sexual Health Clinic (SHC) service.

This position will conduct patient visits for testing, treatment, prevention, and linkage to care, and will operate with a very high degree of flexibility and autonomy guided by written policy and standing orders, and with clinical oversight by an on-site licensed independent practitioner. This role will work primarily with adolescent and adult populations and will also assist patients with navigation to primary care and/or chronic care services as needed.

This position will report primarily to the Sexual Health Services Program Manager for all SHC-related functions, but separately to the Director of Nursing for annual competencies, trainings, and other as needed.

• Analytical and Critical Thinking:
  In accordance with Chase Brexton policies and standing orders and as a primary point of care for most sexual health concerns addressed within the Sexual Health Clinic, this role utilizes assessment skills to evaluate patient needs and formulate a plan of care, as part of the multi-disciplinary care team.
• Revises outcomes and interventions based on results and patient feedback, collaborating with both the patient and other members of the care team.
• Facilitates individual or group education and testing visits with patients to address sexual health concerns, and provides information on prevention, treatment, and follow-up as appropriate.
• Identifies opportunities to introduce and implement STI/HIV/pregnancy prevention measures in accordance with Chase Brexton policies and procedures.
• Takes ownership of patient care needs and follows through on care provision to close communication loops and address needs within our organizational service abilities.
• Identifies patients at risk for poor outcomes and those who may require more intensive services; provides additional outreach and frequent follow up (by phone and in-person) to this population.
• Provides sexual health case management, including critical diagnosis care coordination, transition care management, high risk clinical tracking, complex medication management and system utilization to appropriate patients.
• Performs phlebotomy during patient visits to collect bloodwork for testing.
• Ability to escalate care as appropriate for additional physical assessment, lab result interpretation, medication needs, linkage to more complex or recurring care service lines, and to facilitate rapid intervention in times of crisis or urgent complexity (reported sexual assault, new HIV diagnosis, Department of Health or legal intervention, etc.).

• Teamwork:
  Collaborates with multi-disciplinary team to address both physical and psychological aspects of health to provide care for the whole patient.
• As applicable, collaborates with provider, pharmacy, social work, or other staff during patient visits for education on health promotion, disease prevention, and/or management of disease.
• Coordination and team attendance with other SHC staff or SWOD team members for on-site and/or off-site testing and sexual health education events.

• Patient Focus:
  Provide STI, HIV, and reproductive testing to SHC patients in compliance with Chase Brexton policies and standing orders, and offer, provide, or coordinate treatment or prevention methods as applicable.
• Coordinate SHC services for patients by ensuring room availability, adequate supplies and appropriate lab processing, follow-up on results, and appropriate.
• May provide individual or group-based health education and coaching around HIV/STI and reproductive health and prevention.
• Access appropriate resources inside and outside the organization to meet patient needs.
• Demonstrates awareness of cultural, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation and racial differences and their potential to impact patient outcomes.

• Communication:
  
  Required:
  
  outstanding communication skills with staff, patients, and community members. Must be able to effectively communicate with patients using both medically appropriate and patient-understood terminology.
• Provide culturally, linguistically, and age-appropriate HIV, STI, and reproductive health education, prevention, counseling, testing, and referrals in accordance with applicable Chase Brexton policies regarding STI/HIV testing and treatment.
• Distribute linguistically and culturally appropriate educational literature/information.
• Utilizes interpreter services for patient communication as necessary.
• Attends nursing department staff meetings and participates…