FLOAT NURSE

Overview

Job Purpose:

Provide nursing care to patients in professional manner. Assist providers with assessment and management of patient care. Covers when primary clinical staff needs assistance or is out.

• Follows all duties and job descriptions for all other clinical positions at Cabot Medical Care.
• Keeps equipment operating by following operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; reporting when repairs are needed.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by following, and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping patient care information confidential.
• Serves and protects the physician or health care provider practice by adhering to professional standards, policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications.
• Enhances health care practice reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Conforms to all clinic policies outlined in the employee manual or received verbally from a supervisor.
• Keep all licensures current.
• Performs any other task assigned by a supervisor.

Skills/Qualifications
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Clinical Skills, Creating a Safe, Effective Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Procedural Skills, Documentation Skills, Verbal Communication, Inventory Control, Planning, Dependability, Medical Teamwork