School RN - Augustine Prep North

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Join our Sixteenth Street team committed to the highest quality health care! We are looking for a Registered Nurse for our Augustine Prep North School Clinic (Glendale, WI).

• Provides patient-centered nursing care in an outpatient school-based clinic, according to established scope of practice guidelines and standards of care.
• Monitors and supports overall student health, including tracking individual health maintenance needs, vaccine records, keeping school health records updated, school environment infection prevention.
• Provides triage assessment to walk-in patients, their family members, school staff and others for referrals to Primary Care Provider.
• Develops health care plans for students with chronic illnesses and disabilities as needed.
• Administers medications, under Provider orders, including but not limited to: immunizations, antibiotics, pain medications, topical agents, insulin, and prescribed medications for chronic conditions.
• Assesses and provides student/patient, parent and staff education on specific chronic condition disease processes, treatment, and self-care, integrating health promotion and preventive aspects of care.
• Provides navigation support for student/patient referrals or test requests.
• Performs nursing tasks or skills such as removal of sutures and staples, basic wound care, catheterization, audiograms, laboratory procedures (throat/nose culture, drug screen, phlebotomy – butterfly, venous access), spirometry, basic wound care, etc., with demonstrated competency.
• Provides nursing expertise and acts as resource to Medical Assistants. May provide work direction to other staff and/or assist with patient care flow and the provision of services. Proactively participates in staff development by seeking to provide “on-the-spot” learning opportunities, creating in-servicing plans, delivering in-servicing plans for support staff.
• Assists with telephone triage and other RN pool responsibilities, as needed.
• Assists in maintenance/protection of patient privacy and medical record data collection by:
  • Proactively upholding clinic guidelines and standards related to Patient Confidentiality
  • Reviewing patient data on chart each visit for necessary health maintenance issues and/or follow-up issues from previous visits
  • Rendering complete, accurate and professional documentation of care rendered, procedures performed, tests administered, tasks completed, results received, and/or other patient related information pertinent to care.
• Participates in the Clinic mission to provide high quality healthcare by:
  • Actively participating in department In-servicing and Annual Skills Testing
  • Actively seeking independent studies to keep aware and current of nursing issues.
  • Alerting appropriate staff and/or acting on possible safety or confidentiality issues
  • Offering workflow, safety, morale related improvement suggestions
• Complies with SSCHC Infection Control Plan including employee testing.
• Maintains additional assigned clinical projects (staff development, Coumadin clinic) in a safe, orderly, and documented manner, with minimal supervision requirements.

• Registered Nurse with current license and two years nursing experience; current basic life support certification (CPR)
• Supervisory experience or demonstrated supervisory aptitude.
• Strong computer skills preferred.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to relate well to people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers is an equal employment opportunity employer.