Registered Nurse - Kelsey Seybold Clinic - Shops Job Houston area,Texas USA,Healthcare

Explore opportunities with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. Work with one of the nation's leading health care organizations and build your career at one of our 40+ locations throughout Houston. Be part of a team that is nationally recognized for delivering coordinated and accountable care. As a multi-specialty clinic, we offer care from more than 900 medical providers in 65 medical specialties.

Take on a rewarding opportunity to help drive higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower total costs. Join us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The registered nurse provides nursing care to patients in an assigned clinical area and leadership on the unit, under the supervision of a Nurse Supervisor, or RN Coordinator. The RN applies clinical nursing knowledge and utilizes demonstrated skills to ensure the safety and comfort of patients and families according to legal, organizational and professional standards. The RN utilizes critical thinking to identify priorities and make judgments concerning basic and comprehensive needs of multiple patients in order facilitate appropriate and timely care.

Primary Responsibilities:

15% Clerical
- Review doctor's schedule, abstract as needed, print PVS for each patient and request other relevant information needed for patient's visit that day
- Prepares and submits patient documents for scanning
- Monitor assigned in basket and complete work as needed-Overdue Results/Letters
- Schedule appointments and assist patient with specialty referrals and radiology testing
- Provide pre-printed patient educational material as directed by provider
- Proper disposal of confidential patient information
  -daily
- Follows HIPAA policy and procedures regarding patient confidentiality
- Reinforce patient teaching
- Identify basic health related learning needs of patient
- Prepare and submit UR and other referrals as directed by the physician
- Call in prescriptions as directed by the physician
20% Patient Care
- Monitor in basket for orders placed by physician and perform tasks that need to be completed (i.e. waived testing, EKG's, specimen collection, spirometry, hearing, vision); reports and accurately documents patient response
- Document observations related to health status and report findings
- Rooms patients on arrival as rooms become available:
- Obtain patient's demographic information, history, chief complaint
- Verify patient allergies and documents vital signs per policy
- Reconcile medication list with patient at each visit and update preferred pharmacy
- Documents patient education to include patient's learning method, preferred language, if needs an interpreter and ability to read, and include appropriate education for office visit
- Complete questionnaires when appropriate (ie lead, TB, flu, New Patient Intake)
- Prepares patient and room for physician visit
- Assist physician with preparing patient for examination & minor office procedures
- Perform activities of daily living on patients as needed (ie emptying ostomy bags, changing adult and pediatric diapers)
- Transport patient within facility as needed
- Performs/Obtains: EKG, Waived Testing (Capillary Blood Glucose, Hemocult, Urine Pregnancy), Hearing
- & Vision Testing, Sterilization of Instruments, and procedures. Report and document patient response
- Collects & prepares lab specimens (Urinalysis, Pap Smear, Biopsy, Cultures) and transports to lab
- Perform CPR as needed and assist during times of emergency
- Medication administration using the 7 rights, document, monitor, and report response
- Telephone management: collect pertinent patient information to help determine health care need and document in the medical record. Report information to physician for direction
10% Departmental Maintenance
- Monitor supplies,…