Affiliate Registered Nurse (B Street, Sacramento, CA)

About the position

This position is for an Affiliate Registered Nurse at the B Street Health Center in Sacramento, CA. The role involves a part-time schedule (0.4 FTE) with a hiring range of \$48-\$52 per hour. The nurse will be responsible for various duties including overseeing non-licensed staff, patient triage, contributing to health center goals, and providing direct patient care in areas such as in-clinic abortions, sexual and reproductive health, and centralized follow-up. Additionally, the role includes triage services for the Response Center, handling lab reports, and patient communication via phone and the Patient Portal.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for assuring non-licensed staff are qualified in performing back office/lab skills and achieve core competency levels on an annual basis
• Provides input for the medical component of the non-licensed staff performance reviews
• Oversees patient triage for medical problems and acute versus routine appointments for both reproductive health and primary care patients
• Works with Center Manager or designee to facilitate flow and triage
• Contributes to achieving health center productivity goals
• Demonstrates PPMM customer service standards
• Prepares recovery room for all in clinic abortion services.
• Prepares pre-operative medications
• Assess post-operative patients for pain and bleeding control and early detection of complications
• Oversees HSS functions: vital signs, post-operative instructions, education of patient identified birth control method
• Provides intraoperative sedation medication and patient monitoring
• Provides post-operative medications
• Maintains and ensures emergency cart and equipment are stocked and current
• Follows standardized procedures for the following patient visits: hormonal contraception, Emergency Contraception (EC), and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) screening
• Provides patient education, counseling, lab work and ultrasound for medication abortions
• Provide immunizations per approved guidelines and standardized procedures, such as HPV vaccination
• Accepts and signs-off GC/CT, pap and other designated lab reports from clinician’s PAQ
• Evaluates and develops plan for follow up
• Refers paps/other labs that are outside the scope of CFU RN to the health centers’ clinicians
• Verifies that all lab reports are handled appropriately and within the appropriate time frame
• Provides advice/triage services to both reproductive health and primary care patients
• Identifies medical urgency and schedules appointments with the health centers
• Answers all calls placed in queue by Response Center as outlined in the Triage Policy
• Responds to patient emails through the Patient Portal in HER

Requirements

• Ability to perform the duties described above.
• Graduation from an accredited Nursing Program
• Current NV State RN license
• Current BLS Certificate
• Current ACLS Certificate
• Current experience using computer and mouse
• Experience using a Microsoft Windows based program and willing to learn new computer skills
• Willingness to work flexible hours and locations
• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to communicate effectively