Registered Nurse - Family Medicine

Job Title

Registered Nurse - Family Medicine

To support disease management tasks which include clinical responsibilities such as proactive monitoring, assessment, education, and follow-up of patients; empower patients and their families in self‑care practices and motivational and behavioral change modalities; and provide competency‑based education to patients, staff, and providers while maintaining care management databases.

Must be licensed as RN for two (2) years.

Valid RN license.

RN experience in clinical nursing with chronic disease, utilization review and/or quality management.

Knowledge of evidence‑based clinical guidelines across a wide variety of conditions and age groups; knowledge of care management and resource/utilization management; skill in the use of personal computers and related software applications; ability to manage multiple priorities under time constraints and analyze and solve problems; understanding of cost and quality issues; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies;

and decision‑making skills.

• Provides education and preventive health measures while helping the patient with chronic disease or condition to set behavior change goals.
• Participates in the control of cost‑effective services that reflect appropriate levels of staff, proper use of equipment, appropriate use of supplies, and effective management of patient care.
• Adheres to restorative care philosophy by incorporating principles into direct care provided to residents on a daily basis.
• Evaluates, develops, and implements clinical program components to optimize patient care strategies and goals.
• Demonstrates effective interviewing and assessment skills and integrates new or current techniques to obtain information from the resident/family to plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.
• Provides timely internal/external customer service in a cooperative, professional, and respectful manner.

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations. Occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, occasional twisting, and frequent walking.

Time Type:
Full time.
FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:
Yes.
Pay Class:
Salary.
FTE %: 100.

Work Shift:

Day.

Grant Funded:
No.

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