RN/LPN Specialty Clinic for ENT/Neurology

Description

Join Scott County Specialty Clinic to move your career in the right direction. Stay for the diverse teams you’ll love, a shared purpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work. You will feel valued, motivated, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes. Scott County Hospital Specialty Clinic is invested in your success. Competitive and equitable compensation for all roles. 

Purpose of Position:

This team member is responsible for providing safe, effective and efficient care to patients in a specialty clinic setting. The nurse must be able to provide leadership in all situations, including responsible for emergencies, utilizing concepts of critical thinking and creative problem solving to ensure positive outcomes. Provide care coordination services for multiple specialties.

Essential Functions:

This list may not include all the duties assigned

1. We seek a versatile RN/LPN who can transition to support providers in our specialty clinic. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to enhance your skills across multiple specialties.

2. Provide professional nursing care for clinic patients following established standards and practices.

3. This nurse also coordinates care, ensures continuity across the patient journey, upholds clinical protocols and regulatory standards. Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills are essential in this role.

4. Must be able to work in a team atmosphere as well as autonomously.

5. The nurse is responsible for assessing patient needs, providing direct patient care, administering medications and treatments, assisting with procedures, and educating patients and families. This may include face to face, video, or telephone encounter.

6. Works directly with the Specialty Clinic Referral Management and Scheduling Department. Review referrals for acceptance and communicate scheduling needs.

7. Support interdisciplinary healthcare team through supervision, education, and training of other clinic team members including medical assistants. The Specialty Clinic RN/LPN is a key participant in the health care team providing problem solving, escalation of patient care issues, outreach to patient and families, and coordination of services and care activities within the clinic setting and community.

8. Completes mandatory education and competency assessment requirements.

9. Promote positive patient experience

10. In addition to the responsibilities described above, the role may include other responsibilities and duties as assigned on occasion, based on Scott County Specialty Clinic needs or requirements.

The preceding functions have been provided as examples of the types of work performed by employees assigned in this job classification. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind work assignments and to make reasonable accommodations as needed.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and /or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education, Qualifications, Experience:

Must be an LPN or RN and hold current license in State of Kansas

Must have BLS, ACLS, (PALS optional)

Must have interpersonal skills. Capable of mature and independent judgment.

Expectation of Service: Full-time, Part-time, PRN position

Physical Requirements: Occasional sitting, frequent standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, lifting/carrying 10-35 pounds; frequent reaching/grasping, twisting, pulling/pushing, occasional exposure to sharp instruments.

Typical Working Conditions:

Risk of being exposed to blood borne diseases

Contact of patients under a wide variety of circumstances

May be exposed to occasional different patient elements

Exposed to unpleasant elements (injuries and illness)

Subject to varying and unpredictable situations

Occasionally subjected to irregular hours and weekend clinics if agreed upon.

May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases

May be exposed to hazardous body fluids and wastes

Subject to burns and cuts.

(This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary)

I hereby acknowledge that I have read and understand the content of this job description. I understand that this job description may be revised from time to time in the future by the Company in its discretion. I understand and agree that nothing in this job description should be construed as a contract of employment, and that employment with this Company is at-will meaning that the terms of employment may be changed with or without notice, with or without cause, including, but not limited to termination, demotion, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, duties and location of work.

Requirements

Specialty Clinic RN/LPN

Education, Qualifications, Experience:

Must be an LPN or RN and must have experience in a clinical settings position.  

Must have BLS, ACLS, PALS optional

Must have interpersonal skills. Capable of mature and independent judgment.

Expectation of Service: Full-time, Part-time, PRN position

Physical Requirements: Occasional sitting, frequent standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, lifting/carrying 10-35 pounds; frequent reaching/grasping, twisting, pulling/pushing, occasional exposure to Sharp instruments. Frequent exposure to equipment. Continuously writing in English and working irregular hours. 

Specialty Clinic RN/LPN

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Long-term disability

Retirement

PTO/EIL