Float Registered Nurse (San Jose) New

Affiliate Registered Nurse

Part-Time (0.6 FTE at 24 hrs/wk - Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday - option of providing 2 Fridays per month)

Travel to San Jose and Oakland

Hiring Wage: $44-45/hr

San Jose, CA

Essential Duties

General Duties

• Travels to PPMM locations as required
• Responsible for assuring non-licensed staff are qualified in performing back office/lab skills and
  
  

achieve core competency levels on an annual basis

• Provides input for the medical component of the non-licensed staff performance reviews
• Oversees patient triage for medical problems and acute versus routine appointments for both
  
  

reproductive health and primary care patients

• Works with Center Manager or designee to facilitate flow and triage
• Contributes to achieving health center productivity goals
• Demonstrates PPMM customer service standards
  
  

In Clinic Abortion Duties

• Prepares recovery room for all in clinic abortion services
• Prepares pre-operative medications
• Assess post-operative patients for pain and bleeding control and early detection of complications
• Oversees HSS functions: vital signs, post-operative instructions, education of patient identified birth
  
  

control method

• Provides intraoperative sedation medication and patient monitoring
• Provides post-operative medications
• Maintains and ensures emergency cart and equipment are stocked and current
  
  

Sexual and Reproductive Health Duties

• Follows standardized procedures for the following patient visits: hormonal contraception, Emergency
  
  

Contraception (EC), and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) screening

• Provides patient education, counseling, lab work and ultrasound for medication abortions
• Provide immunizations per approved guidelines and standardized procedures, such as HPV
  
  

vaccination

Centralized Follow-Up RN

• Accepts and signs-off GC/CT, pap and other designated lab reports from clinician’s PAQs
• Evaluates and develops plan for follow up
• Refers paps/other labs that are outside the scope of CFU RN to the health centers’ clinicians
• Verifies that all lab reports are handled appropriately and within the appropriate time frame
  
  

Triage RN- Response Center

• Provides advice/triage services to both reproductive health and primary care patients
• Identifies medical urgency and schedules appointments with the health centers
• Answers all calls placed in queue by Response Center as outlined in the Triage Policy
• Responds to patient emails through the Patient Portal in EHR
  
  

Qualifications

Ability to perform the duties described above. A typical means of acquiring those abilities would be:

• Ability to perform the duties described above. A typical means of acquiring the abilities would be:
• Graduation from an accredited Nursing Program
• Current CA State RN license
• Current BLS Certificate
• Current ACLS Certificate
  
  

Requirements

• Current experience using computer and mouse
• Experience using a Microsoft Windows based program and willing to learn new computer skills
• Willingness to work flexible hours and locations
• Strong customer service orientation
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel throughout the assigned region on a weekly basis
• Ability to communicate effectively