RN - ENT: Kelsey-Seybold Clinic-NW Campus

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

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 AVS and or pre-printed patient educational material as directed by provider
Proper disposal of confidential patient information
-daily
Follows HIPAA policy and procedures regarding patient confidentiality
Develop patient teaching plans
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

Patient Care    Utilize the nursing process. Act as an advocate to promote quality patient care. Critically analyze and integrate subjective and objective data regarding concerns and conditions both in direct encounters, computer, or telephone
Medication administration using the 7 rights, document, monitor, and report response
Monitor in basket for orders placed by physician and perform tasks that need to be completed; reports and accurately documents patient response. Manage workload in assigned departmental in basket to include: result notes, Rx requests, Rx response, orders, patient calls, over due results, canceled orders, expiring orders and patient advice requests
Telephone management: collect pertinent patient information to help identify health care needs and document in the medical record. Report information to physician for direction of care or provide care advice as appropriate to the situation
Perform CPR as needed and actively participates in management of emergency response (includes code blue and code orange teams)
Document observations related to health status and report findings
Transport patient within facility as needed depending on acuity of patient
Rooms patients, performs testing, and assist physician as patient acuity warrants on arrival as rooms become available

Departmental Maintenance    Monitor supplies, medications and forms and notifies appropriate staff when reorder needed
Remove and tag broken equipment and notifies coordinator, supervisor, or manager
Cleans assigned exam rooms daily and documents on log
Monitors supplies for expiration date and restock to par levels
Perform sterilization of instruments and complete logs (assignment based on completion of sterilization class and delegation by appropriate nursing staff)
Attends staff meetings
Maintain a clean and organized work area with a minimum of personal items

QA-Regulatory (10%)    Uses frequent hand washing or hand sanitizer (up to 10 times before have to wash hands with soap and water, unless hands visibly soiled) to prevent and control the spread of disease within the clinical setting
Complete daily logs as assigned by nursing supervisor or coordinator:
Waived testing (ie glucometer, urine dipstick and urine pregnancy logs) CLIA standards
Refrigerator and room temperature logs
Eye wash station
Sterilizer…