The Allergy Registered Nurse (RN) works collaboratively as an active member of the interprofessional team to provide therapeutic patient and family centered care. The Allergy RN is responsible for overseeing daily operations of the clinic, accepts accountability, applies competent clinical knowledge and uses independent nursing judgment for care provided by self and by health care providers to whom care is delegated to achieve quality patient care outcomes in a safe environment. The RN also must possess the ability to assess and interpret patient data needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age-specific needs.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Patient assessment and triage.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Counseling and educating patients related to allergy and immunologic conditions and disease processes.
- Preparing patient charts with necessary medical information from referring physicians for office appointments.
- Rooming clinic patients, obtaining vital signs, and reporting patient concerns or pertinent observations to the provider.
- Assisting in coordinating procedure triage, in-office testing as ordered by the provider, coordinating tests and services, scheduling patients, instructing and educating patients, assisting physicians with procedures, monitoring patients during/after procedures, and accurate documentation of all patient-related activities.
- Administering high-risk allergy injections to all patient populations.
- Responding to emergent patient situations and providing patient care under the direction of the provider.
- Performing procedures and testing under indirect physician supervision.
Education Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) Preferred.
Experience Qualifications:
- Experience in a clinic setting Preferred.
Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to rights of patient/significant other, as identified within the institution.
- Demonstrates awareness and application of safety issues as identified within the institution.
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and departmental functioning.
- Demonstrates competency in selected psychomotor skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively using verbal, non-verbal, and written methods.
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations related to medication administration and equipment calibration.
Licenses and Certifications:
- Registered Nurse - KSBN. A multistate license with the ability to practice within the State of Kansas is also accepted.
- Basic Life Support - BLS certification may be required within 90 days of hire.
What you will do:
- Provide direct patient care as defined within the scope of the state’s nurse practice act.
- Perform assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner.
- Administer prescribed medications, infusions, and/or treatments in accordance with nursing standards.
- Formulate a prioritized and goal-directed plan of care.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the health care process in meeting outcomes.
- Document in patient and department records in a timely, accurate and concise manner.
- Participate in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities.
- Participate actively in clinical education activities, including orientation of new employees and teaching student nurses.
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