Ambulatory Float Registered Nurse

All KANA positions are based in Kodiak and are not eligible for remote work. Applicants must reside in Kodiak or be willing to relocate.

KANA's standard work schedule is 37.5 working hours per week, typically consisting of 7.5 paid working hours per day plus a one-hour unpaid lunch break (total of 8.5 hours per day).

The Ambulatory Float Pool Registered Nurse is an outpatient flexible position, working in team support, patient care administration and direct patient care capacity with a variety of day-to-day tasks and/or physical location.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Other duties may be assigned

* Supports the organization's mission and goals and quality standards. Embraces KANA's culture of serving the whole person through our provision of services. Incorporates KANA's core values of Courtesy, Caring, Respect, Sharing, and Pride in all activities and decisions.

* Upholds KANA's Code of Ethics by conducting professional activities with honesty, integrity, respect, fairness, and good faith in a manner that reflects positively upon the organization.

* Work within a team-based model of care to support colleagues and patients with excellent customer service. Communicate effectively with colleagues and patients; appropriately manage orders from and proposing orders to providers; follow RN triage and case management protocols. Ensure patients' concerns are appropriately addressed in a timely fashion. Accurate and timely documentation in EMR.

* Respond to urgent or emergent medical situations based upon nursing standards, policies, procedures and protocols.

* Participate in quality improvement protocols or projects as requested.

* Ensure compliance with all health care regulations, including HIPAA, OSHA and quality measures according to AAAHC accreditation and HRSA clinical measures.

Provides coverage across the Nursing Department as needed.

The Float Pool RN will be asked to flex between the various RN duties at KANA based on patient and staff needs. Below are some of the duties that will be in the Float Pool RN rotation.

Triage Registered Nurse:

* Prioritize and triage patients on the floor as needed and by telephone call, implementing triage policy protocols to facilitate care advice, coordination of care, coordination of recommendations with medical providers when needed, and elevation of situations to a higher level of care when necessary.

* Independently address patient, family, provider, staff, and outside facility calls concerning a wide variety of topics with excellent customer service.

* Perform triage assessment by phone and in the office, process provider orders in an accurate and timely fashion, propose orders to providers appropriately by protocol.

* Collect information regarding the patient's concerns, medical history and description of symptoms via the telephone using the nursing process. Use symptom-based protocols to systematically assess and address the patient's needs. Care for patients in a timely manner.

Infection Control/Employee Health Registered Nurse:

* During gaps in IC/EH RN coverage, the Float Pool RN will help with those duties. This will include attention to infection control prevention measures within KANA, infection prevention and surveillance programs, and infection mitigation efforts.

* Participate in blood borne pathogen exposure assessment, treatment and follow up.

* Participate in preventative screening programs (e.g. TB skin testing, influenza, hepatitis B, MMR, varicella and other appropriate immunizations) and surveillance programs designed to identify and monitor risks to the employee's health.

* Responsible for all pre-employment testing and vaccination processes, annual N95/TB/Influenza testing and/or vaccinations, and the management of potential blood exposures, employee illnesses and disease outbreaks.

* Maintain a system for reporting possible incidents of communicable diseases and notify the Public Health Department and the State of Alaska Health Department and Social Services of any reportable diseases, adhering to all internal, local and state procedures.

Ambulatory Floor Registered Nurse:

* Participate in all aspect of patients' clinical encounters: prepare the exam room and equipment, welcome and escort patients, perform patient clinical intake, report to provider, assist provider with exams and screenings as requested, facilitate patient education and discharge. Maintain sterile supplies.

* Work with providers, phone triage RNs, RN case managers, and SRS staff to ensure efficient patient flow and patient access to medical providers as needed. Continuously review patient schedule to ensure patients are greeted in a timely fashion.

* Give medication, injections or treatments, and perform routine laboratory tests as ordered.

* Contact patients to report labs and other diagnostic results as requested by providers. Process phone calls or portal communications from patients, routing as appropriate, and responding in a timely manner.

* Request medical records from other health care…