Primary Care Support RN--Meriden

Primary Care Support RN – Meriden – 8 hours

8 hours a week, Thursdays 8am – 5pm

• Provide high quality, comprehensive primary nursing care to individuals and families throughout the lifespan.
• Work at the top of licensure to enhance safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of care through professional responsibilities and delegation of technical and clerical functions to medical assistants.
• Provide general and focused health education regarding preventive, chronic, and episodic health care issues.
• Collaborate with primary care providers to coordinate care, support transitions between levels of care, counsel, educate, and support patients in improving health status.
• Apply principles of advanced access, planned care, chronic care model, and rapid cycle performance improvement using PDSA at CHCI.
• Support primary care under the planned care model; identify needs for preventive care, evidence‑based chronic disease care, and care coordination.
• Assist providers with exams, treatments, and procedures as needed; follow up on emergency room visits and hospital discharges.
• Administer medications, including vaccines and immunizations, orally, subcutaneously, intramuscularly, intradermally or via nebulizer under standing orders; monitor patient response and provide education.
• Perform wide range nursing activities as needed (wound care, catheterization, etc.); accurately document all patient care in the medical chart promptly.
• Maintain strict infection control standards, universal precautions, OSHA, CLIA; monitor and ensure follow‑up of abnormal Pap Smear results, STDs, lead screens and other tests at CHCI.
• Oversee supplies and equipment; order supplies as necessary; maintain compliance with agency mandatory annual training (Patient Safety, Abuse, Age‑Based Competencies, EOC, Abuse trainings).
• Expert use of electronic health record to ensure timely, safe, confidential storage and retrieval of patient information.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) OR Associates of Science in Nursing (ASN).
• Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) with experience in primary care or community health setting preferred.
• Strong clinical knowledge of preventive, chronic disease, and episodic health care issues.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to educate patients and families.
• Proficiency in electronic health record (EHR); experience with CHCI protocols preferred.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively on a part‑time schedule (8 hours per week).

Community Health Center of Meriden
Meriden, Connecticut

Part time – 8 hours per week, Thursday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Community Health Center of Meriden is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.