Team Nurse - Hybrid Remote Job Cambridge Massachusetts USA,Nursing

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. This is a hybrid remote position with occasional float in-person at our Mount Auburn Primary Care offices in the Cambridge area.

Job Description:

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Act in compliance with nursing philosophy, practice standards, and qualifications.

Collaborates with physicians and midlevel providers in providing direct healthcare to patients. Evaluates client outcomes and condition changes.

Communicates and documents teaching and follow-up care with patients. Documents patients’ understanding of plan/instructions.

Communicates pertinent patient information and findings to providers, associate nursing peers, and other caregivers in a timely manner.

Triages telephone inquiries, reviews lab results and diagnosis testing, and assures written patient notification of test results, missed appointments, and abnormal study follow-up when appropriate. Arranges referrals to ancillary services.

Demonstrates competency in office including testing, phlebotomy, and assists physician/midlevel provider with procedures.

Maintains and supervises the integrity of departmental logs.

Reviews and comprehends Department of Public Heath and Welfare information and recommendations for prophylaxis, treatment, and reporting of communicable diseases. Completes informational forms such as premarital and WIC. Recognizes signs and symptoms of child and domestic abuse and reports accurately.

Maintains stock of client education materials. Reviews new material available.

Organizational Responsibilities

Follows hospital and departmental policies with special attention to safety, dress, attendance and punctuality, and display of . Subscribes to hospital’s mission statement, code of ethics, and standard of conduct.

Handles all work-related information in a confidential manner, as outlined in Confidentiality Policy

B.91. Recognizes and respects each patient’s rights to privacy, and understands that this is protected by statute. Understands that looking up patient information not needed for job duties is prohibited and is grounds for immediate dismissal.

Treats customers with courtesy and compassion and responds to requests in a timely manner.

Works effectively with members of the team so that they meet constantly changing needs and deliver care that is customer oriented and cost effective.

Demonstrates initiative and creativity to continuously improve services, departmental and interdepartmental processes, and any other activities that affect quality.

Plans organizes and renders care for neonate, pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients within an assigned area 7.

Performs work responsibilities while staying in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Understands and agrees to uphold the Hospital Compliance Plan.

Patient Safety

When taking a telephone order, writes the order on the Doctor’s Orders, reads the order back to the MD and document as a TORB.

When taking a verbal order, repeats the order back to the MD prior to implementing the order and documents as a VORB.

Uses only accepted abbreviations when documenting in the medical record.

Uses two unique patient identifiers prior to treatment or patient transport.

Consistently uses sharps devices as designed to prevent injury.

Complies with Isolation Guidelines; wears appropriate personal protective equipment as required by specific patient precautions.

Consistently complies with CDC Handwashing Guidelines. Cleans hands before and after patient contact, or contact with patient environment.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

Knowledge of nursing process, theories, and clinical expertise related to patient care, normally acquired through…