Team Nurse

Beth Israel Lahey Health, Inc. • Chelsea, MA, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Location:
Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare - Chelsea
1000 Broadway Street
Chelsea, MA 02150

The Team Nurse role is now eligible for a $3,000 sign-on bonus. Important Details: Bonuses are paid out in $1,000 increments at 30 days, 6 months, and at the 1-year anniversary. To be eligible, you must be a non-BILH employee or a previous eligible employee who returns to BILH after 1 year. Employees must be in good standing to receive the bonus at the time of payment. All bonuses are subject to applicable taxes. This program is subject to change at any point.

Job Description Summary

Reporting directly to the Practice Manager and Senior Director of Nursing, the Team Nurse position is responsible for performing the duties of a RN/LPN in an outpatient primary care or family medicine practice and serves as a clinical resource for the medical practice. The Team Nurse provides high quality, direct patient care in a team-based model to our Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare (BIDHC) patients. The Team Nurse is responsible for enhancing the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of patient care through the support and delegation of clinical and administrative functions as appropriate to the Medical Assistant (MA) staff. Responsible for educating and training our MA team and patients with both general and focused health education for preventive, chronic, and episodic health care issues. Assumes responsibility, in collaboration with primary care providers, to coordinate patient-centered care, support transitions between levels of care and counsels, educates and supports patients in improving health status.

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

Coordinate and facilitate quality clinical management of a broad-based outpatient population across the continuum of care. Collaborates with providers to identify needs for preventive care, evidence-based chronic disease management, and care coordination. Provides general and specific healthcare education. Works directly with patients to identify and monitor self-management goals. (essential)
Collaborates care with community-based providers. Follows up on ED visits and inpatient discharges. Assists providers with exams, treatments, and procedures as needed. (essential)
Provides skilled telephonic triage and assessment, education, collaboration, and coordination of healthcare and community resources. Performs a direct patient care role. Nursing visits include: Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) of our BIDHC patients. (essential)
Responsible for INR management and teaching for those patients on Coumadin using a standardized protocol. (essential)
Administers vaccines and medications by parenteral, oral, rectal, or nasal route by orders of the prescribing provider and by the Medication Administration policy guidelines established by BIDHC. Provides patient education as appropriate for the administered medication. (essential)
Performs a wide range of nursing activities as needed under the direction of the provider such as wound care, point of care testing, etc. Accurately documents all aspects of patient care in the Electronic Health Record in a timely basis. Schedules tests and referrals for specialty care on order of provider. (essential)
Monitors and ensures follow up of all abnormal test and imaging results under the direction of the provider. (essential)
Oversees the inventory and ordering management of clinical supplies and equipment as necessary. Ensures safe, accurate, and clinically appropriate collection, storage, and processing of all biologic specimens. (essential)
Provides oversight, delegation, and acts as a resource to unlicensed staff including MAs, Certified Nursing Assistants, and Nursing Students. Provides ongoing education and training to practice staff. Updates clinical knowledge and skills through consultation, review of literature, and formal and informal education including CEUs. Maintains compliance with organizational mandatory annual training. (essential)
The Team Nurse will ensure that PHI (Patient Health Information) will only be used for the purposes of patient TPO (treatment, payment, and operations). The Team Nurse will ensure patient safety practices to prevent/eliminate risk of patient harm. Adverse patient events and near misses will be promptly reported to the BIDHC Risk Management Dept. (essential)

Required Qualifications:

Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
License Registered Nurse required, or Registration Licensed Practical Nurse required, and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
1-3 years related work experience required.
CPR Certification
Strong interpersonal skills. Strong patient communication and patient education skills.
Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access and other web-based applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis, and maintain databases.

Competencies:

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. May make recommendations for solving problems of moderate complexity and importance.
Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents.
Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures. May set priorities and organize work within general guidelines. Seeks assistance when confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations. Work progress is monitored by supervisor/manager.
Written Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.
Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families, and external customers.
Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures, and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.
Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of the immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.
Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff, and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem-solving. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.

Age-based Competencies:

Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 - over.

Social/Environmental Requirements:

Work requires periods of close attention to work without interruption. Concentrated effort of up to 4 hours without a break may be required.
Work requires constant response to changing circumstances and using new information to adjust approach and to quickly respond to new needs.
Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
Daily: Protective equipment required (Respirator, earplugs, mask, gloves, eyewear, etc.), Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or airborne pathogens, Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or bloodborne pathogens.

Physical Requirements:

Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.
This job requires constant sitting, walking, endurance-working up to 3-4 hours without a break, frequent standing, bending neck, bending waist, power grasping using one hand, fine manipulation using both hands, pushing/pulling using both hands, keyboard use, reaching-above shoulder height, reaching-below shoulder height. There may be occasional push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds, with assistance. Rarely there may be pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance.