RN - Primary Care
Company: Cambridge Health Alliance
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: August 1, 2022
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Job Description:
Location: CHA Windsor Street Care Center Work Days: 8a - 8p
varied with evening hours (M-TH); Fri 8:30a - 5p Category:
Registered Nurse Department: Windsor Health Center Job Type: Full
time Work Shift: Day / Evening Hours/Week: 36.00 Union: Yes Union
Name: MNA CambridgeDEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION:Cambridge Health Alliance
(CHA) is a leader in Primary Care, supporting a highly diverse
population across the Boston metro-north region. Today, CHA serves
more than 120,000 primary care patients during more than 300,000
annual visits. Services are available at 13 primary care centers, 3
teen health centers, via telehealth, and through some very special
programs, right in patient homes. As a member of CHA Primary Care,
you will be part of a dynamic team that values creativity and
innovation. You will help deliver care across the entire spectrum
of primary care - with internal medicine, family medicine,
pediatrics, geriatrics and women's health services. You will be in
a team-based setting, where primary care works hand-in-hand with
behavioral health, pharmacy, complex care and multilingual
interpreter services. CHA is also a teaching hospital, with several
primary care centers hosting CHA's Harvard Internal Medicine
residency and Tufts Family Medicine residency. Summary:The
Registered Nurse is responsible and accountable for planning and
providing patient care for patients in accordance with established
Nursing Standards of Care. He/she demonstrates initiative,
knowledge and clinical skills in caring for the patient with
complex needs. The Registered Nurse demonstrates the ability to
effectively manage patients by assuming full responsibility for the
assessment, plan, implementation and evaluation of nursing care and
is directly reports to a designated nurse manager and/or clinical
manager / off shift manager. Newly hired experienced RNs interested
in committing to a minimum of two years of employment at Cambridge
Health Alliance, may be eligible to receive a retention bonus of
$10,000. Part-time employees may be eligible for a prorated
retention bonus. Please speak with your HR Advisor for details.
Duties and Responsibilities:1. Conducts a patient centered
assessment utilizing appropriate assessment techniques r/t
ambulatory nursing.2. Synthesizes available data, information and
nursing knowledge relevant to the presenting health situation to
identify unique medical/nursing needs and implements appropriate
interventions for age specific categories.3. Competently utilizes
competent, evidence-based ambulatory care nursing interventions
during clinical visits, telephone encounters, and electronic
communications.4. Provides age-appropriate care in a compassionate,
caring, culturally, and ethnically sensitive manner.5. Participates
in the development and implementation of the interdisciplinary plan
of care that identifies strategies tailored to achieve expected
outcomes.6. Documentation meets CHA, professional, and
accreditation standards to facilitate communication of the patient
condition in the provision and coordination of treatment and
services.7. Using CHA approved protocols for telephone triage, the
ambulatory care nurse determines the urgency and disposition based
on data in order to expedite care and provide tailored health
information and advice to the patient/family.8. Coordinates the
delivery of care within the practice setting and across health care
settings.9. Delegates appropriate interventions to ambulatory care
team based on their demonstrated competency, state practice acts,
available evidence-based guidelines, regulatory and governmental
standards, and organizational policies and defined outcome
measures.10. Adheres to position descriptions, policies, protocols,
and procedures related to nursing professional practice.11. Serves
as a point of contact for coordination of care across multiple
agencies and/or health care organizations.12. Employs strategies
that promote the health/wellness of individuals/families and
populations.13. Supports the patient and their caregiver in
developing skills for self-efficacy to promote, maintain, or
restore health, such as health lifestyle tips, risk-reducing
behaviors, age and developmental needs, daily living activities,
and preventive care.14. Contributes to data collection that
monitors ambulatory care nursing and organizational performance.15.
Integrates into practice the findings of quality of care and
performance improvement initiatives that improve the quality of
ambulatory care nursing practice, outpatient care services, and
organizational effectiveness and efficiency.16. Employs critical
attributes of effective collaboration to create, promote, and
maintain an environment that supports successful partnership and
high performance team outcomes.17. Demonstrates CHA Circle of
Values and Service Standards.18. Implements appropriate and
approved best practices, including research findings, to guide
practice decisions.19. Oversees the practice of non-professional
nursing staff.20. Employs beneficial, cost-effective ways to
maximize wellness, prevent illness, and manage acute and chronic
disease and disabilities to affect the most positive health status
over the patient's life span.21. Directs the flow of patients and
staff to assure patients are adequately managed, and the practice
runs smoothly and effectively.22. Administers medications according
to hospital policy and procedure.23. Other duties as
required.Qualifications/Requirements:Education/Training: A graduate
of an accredited school of nursing. Newly hired RNs are required to
have a BSN within 1 year of hire. BSN Preferred.Licensure: MA. RN
Licensure required Certifications: Maintains current AHA BLSWork
Experience: A minimum of two (2) years current ambulatory nursing
preferred. In addition, for family practice sites, pediatric and OB
experience preferred.Linguistic Capabilities: Knowledge of a second
language preferred. In keeping with federal, state and local laws,
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids employees and
associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion,
color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any
other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to
establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We
are fully committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not
tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring,
termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of
employment or career development. Furthermore, we will not tolerate
the use of discriminatory slurs, or other remarks, jokes or
conduct, that in the judgment of CHA, encourage or permit an
offensive or hostile work environment.
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