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Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health · 1 month ago

Registered Office Nurse (RN), Women's Internal Medicine, Full-Time (Day Shift)

Lancaster, PA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health is dedicated to providing high-quality patient care, conducting innovative research, and educating future medical leaders. The Registered Office Nurse (RN) will facilitate patient care in an office setting, performing assessments and collaborating with healthcare providers to deliver comprehensive care.

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Responsibilities

Facilitates patient care in an office setting by performing patient assessments, focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive functions, through patient provider office visits, nurse visits, and telephone triage

Collaborates with Physician and Advanced Practice Providers APPs to provide patient care and assumes responsibility and accountability as defined by the American Nurses Association standards of nursing practice

Functions as an independent and interdependent member of the health care team in support of the care needs of the surgical patient population

Performs patient assessments, focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive functions, through patient provider office visits, nurse visits, and telephone triage

Collects and manages comprehensive data pertinent to the patient’s health or the situation, and concisely relays medical information to physician or APP

Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues

Formulates age-appropriate and culturally and ethically sensitive plan of care

Reviews and analyzes laboratory and diagnostic results prior to physicians and APPs, uses critical thinking when communicating results with providers and when discussing with patients

Implements care in a knowledgeable manner and coordinates patient care across several disciplines and among caregivers

Provides leadership to other members of the team by effectively communicating expected standards of care and encouraging and supporting team members and their contributions

Demonstrates an understanding of and a commitment to our values of privacy, quality, respect, service and teamwork

Assigns, delegates and intervenes as appropriate to assure that the plan of care is carried out, continuity of care is provided and that established outcomes are achieved through availability and appropriated utilization of human, material and financial resources

Educates patients and family members about healthy practices, treatment modalities, medications, non-invasive and invasive procedures

Facilitates invasive procedure patient education, scheduling and coordination

Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practices

Utilizes technology where appropriate

Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice in the planning and delivery of nursing services

Manages rapidly changing situations following established protocols, coordinating and accessing appropriate health team members and resources, and documenting events

Participates in process improvement activities with an emphasis on increasing continuity in the nurse to patient relationship, minimizing rework and redundancies; constantly seeks ways to improve processes, increase efficiency, finds solutions to current situations or develops new methods and procedures

Completes mandatory education and training that includes review of age-specific needs, caring behaviors, and interpersonal skills as relevant to the care of the surgical patient population

Maintains a safe working environment through compliance with established evidence-based practice policies and procedures and timely reporting of safety variances

Seeks experiences and formal and independent learning activities to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge

Provides supervision, including guidance, counseling and mentoring, to targeted peers and subordinates to enhance the learning experiences and improve the professional practice environment within the designated work setting

Participates in the on-call responsibilities for this position as required

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

RN licensureBachelor of Science NursingCPR CertificationInpatientOutpatient experienceInterpersonal relationsLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving

Required

RN licensure, issued by the PA Board of Nursing

CPR Certification - American Heart Association AHA Basic Life Support, formerly Healthcare Provider AHA Heart Saver courses for CPR are not accepted

This role requires occasional regional travel. Ability to travel to multiple sites is required

Bachelor of Science in Nursing BSN

Inpatient or Outpatient General and Vascular surgery experience knowledge

Attention Concentration: The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time

New Learning and Memory: The position requires that an individual be able to learn new tasks quickly and effectively. change frequently. The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved instructions in mandatory

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The position deals with issues or problems that often require thoughtful reasoning before arriving at approaches or solutions. Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and solutions is necessary. The individual must have the ability to apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions

Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job

Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations

Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information

Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others

Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)

Registered Nurse - PA (Required)

Bachelor of Science Nursing (Required)

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation and benefits program

Prepaid tuition assistance programs

Company

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

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Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine), is a more than 800-licensed bed, not-for-profit health system with a comprehensive network of care encompassing Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), Women & Babies Hospital, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital (in partnership with Universal Health Services), and the Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital (in partnership with Kindred Healthcare).

Founded in 1893