RN (Registered Nurse)-General Surgery

Rivers Health is seeking a temporary RN for our General Surgery Office.

• Perform general nursing duties. Assess patients’ general condition and take vital signs and history.
• Promotes wellness by providing patient education materials, communicating physician advice and instructions.
• Responsible in handling critical lab values and promptly seeking physician orders. Schedule outside referrals. Assist with Medical procedures. Answer telephone. Scheduling patients for office visits and/or hospital tests. Sending prescriptions into pharmacy. Calling patients with test results.
• Assists the physicians in the treatment and care of the patients in the office. Maintains exam rooms and other patient areas for the physician to examine the patients.
• Responsible for ensuring safety, infection control and other policies and procedures followed in the office.
• Perform routine office laboratory procedures.
• Maintain equipment and supplies needed for patient care.
• Answer phones. Triage telephone patient care issues directly to clinic provider.
• Adheres to Corporate Policies, JCAHO, Rural Health, Departmental Policies and Procedures, and Personnel Employee Handbook.
• Demonstrates professionalism and accountability.
• Promotes a positive image of the physician practice to patients and the public.
• Demonstrates and promotes high standards for quality and productivity; focuses on results.
• Follows standards of conduct and procedures of hospital and applicable laws and regulations and reports violations through appropriate chain of command.
• Treats patients, physicians and coworkers with courtesy and respect.
• Identifies customer expectations and works to meet and exceed them.
• Maintains a high degree of ethics, integrity, confidentiality.
• Assumes other duties as necessary to support the efforts of the hospital.
• Filling in during co-workers absence. Cover other nursing personnel when they are not here and complete full range of duties. Cover other areas as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.