RN

Company: First Health of the Carolinas
Location: West End
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

RN, TriageGraduate from an accredited school of nursing.# Valid NC RN License or Compact State RN License required. Prefer at least one year of clinical experience in family care practice.#Knowledge of medications and their effects on patients; strong interpersonal and verbal communications skills; age-specific skills, ability to work with accuracy and speed, perform several tasks at one time and react calmly and effectively in an emergency situation.#In addition to the following essential position competencies, other competencies may be required to meet changing organization needs:Obtains vital signs and general health information for patient chart and prepares patients for examination.#Maintains patient health record in an up-to-date status especially in regard to pain assessment and current medication sheet.#Assures documentation is complete, concise and correct.#May serves as vaccine coordinator or back-up vaccine coordinator for State supplied vaccine program. This includes inventory management, assuring proper storage and handling, oversees transportation to backup location in event of power failure and attendance at annual conferences.#Successfully completes Statewide Program for Infection Control Epidemiology (SPICE) and serves as point of contact for OSHA related issues.#Makes daily contact with patient regarding Transitional Care Management, logs phone call attempts, conversations, and appointment details on log.#Contributes to plan of care for individuals and groups of patients utilizing all principles to reduce medication errors when handling or calling in medications or refills.#Demonstrates initiative in suggesting and implementing problem solving approaches and planning performance of service.#Prepares and maintains exam rooms and medical equipment for patient visits in regard to all safety checks and HIPAA guidelines and adapts same HIPAA principles to chart documentation and exposure as well as discussing PHI in front of anyone other than patient.#Triages patients and enters accurate and concise data into the EMR while paying attention to spelling and clarity.#Navigates the EHR system in an efficient manner.#Facilitates quality care management thru best practice utilization of the clinic EHR.#Promotes continuity of care seen by appropriate actions notes and prompt follow up.#Answers phones, routes calls and or takes accurate message. Demonstrates a sense of urgency relating to patient's level of distress.#Triages basic patient care needs, generating a telephone encounter depending upon the situation. Assure a duplicate message has not already been started.#Manages the scheduling of patient appointments.# Registers new patients and maintains current accurate up to date demographic and insurance information for all patients. Performs according to policy regulations associated with Privacy Notification, Medicare secondary, signed demographic registrations, consent to treat minor, etc.#Identifies barriers related to Social Determents of Health (SDOH) and notifies provider.#Monitors referral work queue for follow-up. Assists nursing and or other clinic personnel in follow up to ensure patient compliance, receipt of test results and reports from specialists. Is proactive in contacting patient with test results.#Forwards requests for Medical Records to Release of Information Department.#Recognizes how fraud and abuse interplay into daily role.#Ensures orders are entered correctly to capture appropriate charges.#Refills medications according to medication refill guidelines. Obtains prior authorization for prescribed medications as needed.#Prepare DME/Home Health documentation for provider signature.#Identifies barriers germane to patient's individual needs being financial, emotional, physical, cultural or spiritual (SDOH).#Astute and sensitive to patient satisfaction as it pertains to customer service- people skills in all clinical situations.2B

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