Job Description

Registered Nurse, Ambulatory, uses the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. Manages patient teaching, communication, triage, and documentation in Epic. Ensures patient safety, privacy, and timely response to clinical needs. Collaborates with the care team, supports quality improvement, promotes evidence-based practice, and upholds PRIDE values and organizational goals.

• the problem, planning, implementing, and evaluating care through the health care continuum)
• Consistently demonstrates competent clinical skills. Coordinates and completes patient assessment and re-assessment to positively impact on quality outcomes.
• Assesses barriers to learning and functional status of patient.
• Coordinates, evaluates, and completes patient/family teaching.
• Consistently responds to patients/families in a courteous, positive, and timely manner. Consistently respects the patients right to privacy and dignity. Consistently respects the patients' rights to confidentiality according to HIPAA guidelines. Fosters a positive and pleasant environment, which promotes our shared PRIDE valuesPromotes better patient outcomes by reviewing open gaps of care and coordinating closure of care gaps. Interacts directly with patients and team members, documents in Epic as appropriate. Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration
• Responsible for in basket management. Assists with pharmacy contact, medication ordering and renewal. Reviews and appropriately disseminates labs based on acuity. Reviews and appropriately responds to patient messages, in collaboration with clinician(s).
• Recognizes emergency situations and acts appropriately. Clarifies physician orders as indicated. Maintains a safe environment for team members and patients/visitors: physical, psychological, and environmental. Utilizes the HRO safety principles.
• Reports all injuries (patient or staff) using event reporting system.
• Demonstrates knowledge of medication and vaccine administration according to policy, carries out physician orders in an accurate and timely manner. Monitors effects of medications and reports adverse effects in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates knowledge of policies and procedures, including but not limited to knowledge and skill of emergency equipment and procedures. Identifies and reports all risk management issues in a timely manner. * Responsible for phone management of patients. Triages phone calls utilizing critical thinking and assessment skills to evaluate the chief complaint and urgency of the problem. Triages phone calls to determine acuity to assist in scheduling appointments. Provides comprehensive medical record documentation. Documents all communications and maintains patient confidentiality.
• Participates in and/or organizes regular practice huddles, communicates effectively with team members and physicians; actively listens and seeks feedback. Collaborates with team members to solve problems and resolve conflicts. Functions as a resource/mentor and provides support to team members to resolve patient care and team concerns/issues. * Utilizes standard precautions including, appropriate isolation techniques. Consistently follows the Ambulatory Health Care National Patient Safety Goals.
• Through the model of Shared Governance, collaborates with all members of the health care team with a focus on promoting evidence-based care within a healing culture for the patient population served and their families.
• Demonstrates knowledge of documentation guidelines. Documents patient's response to the ordered treatment protocol. Reports changes in a patient condition to the clinician immediately. Consistently collects and completes all required documentation. Verifies accuracy of order entry and transcription. Maintains competency in use of all needed information systems. Able to communicate effectively verbally and electronically.
• Pursues and participates in formal and independent learning activities to enhance knowledge, clinical competency, and professional development. * Monitors quality dashboards for assigned clinicians/practice.
• Performs other duties per operational needs of the assigned clinical practice area and within the scope of RN license.
• Supports the overall strategic goals of the clinical practice care area, AMG, the AHS hospital sites, Atlantic Visiting Nurse, and the system.
• Exemplifies and fosters the AHS P.R.I.D.E. values in their clinical practice: Purpose, Respect, Innovation, Diversity, and Inclusion, and Extraordinary Caring.

Qualifications

Required:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Valid RN licensure in NJ
• BLS required

Preferred

• At least 2 years' clinical practice, ambulatory practice in urology or urogyn preferred
• Knowledge and command of electronic medical records systems. EPIC Ambulatory preferred.
• Effective communication skills: Listens well, speaks, and writes clearly and concisely.
• Competent in managing the day-to-day operations in a clinical practice.
• Model behaviors in accordance with AMG/AHS mission, vision, and PRIDE values.
• Demonstrates and facilitates inter-professional, cross-departmental, and cross-system, collaboration.
• Travel to other practice locations as required by practice operations

About Us

Atlantic Medical Group is a physician-led and physician-governed organization that delivers the highest quality health care, at the right place, the right price, and the right time. We are a multispecialty physician group with more than 1,000 doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants at over 300 locations throughout northern and central New Jersey and northeast Pennsylvania. Our mission is to deliver exceptional care recognizing the unique needs of all those we serve. Our vision is to achieve the best outcomes with our patients at the center of the physician-led team, driven by service, innovation and continuous learning.

Our integrated network offers seamless access to Atlantic Health's entire health care continuum and our nationally and regionally ranked hospitals. In collaboration with Atlantic Health, several of our practices offer urgent care and walk-in services.

In addition to primary care physicians, the team includes specialists that care for patients in all aspects of their health from pediatrics to geriatrics and everything in between. We make health decisions easier for patients with enhanced access to referrals.

EEO STATEMENT

Atlantic Health, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.

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