Registered Nurse (RN) - Refugee Services
Jordan Valley Community Health Center
Location
Springfield, MO | United States
Job description
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Registered Nurse (RN) - Refugee Services Eligible for a $3,500 sign on bonus Full Time, 36 hours a week Competitive salary, no nights, no weekends, no on-call! Benefits include medical, dental, vision), retirement, PTO, and recognize 9 paid holidays. If you are a compassionate professional who provides exceptional quality care, Jordan Valley is for you! We are Missouri's largest Federally Qualified Health Center founded in 2003 and we serve 75,000 patients each year. The mission of Jordan Valley is to improve the health of our community by providing high-quality and accessible medical, dental, and behavioral health services to Southwest MO. We're collaborative and believe in always going above and beyond as part of our commitment to deliver excellent care to our community!
Job Overview: Our Registered Nurses offer friendly, courteous, and confidential assistance to every patient/client to ensure that the patient/client has a positive experience while at Jordan Valley Community Health Center. This RN role will specifically work within our refugee services.
Duties: - Assesses and diagnoses patient and family needs in order to provide quality care to assigned patients.
- Develops, discusses, and communicates a realistic problem list (plan of care) in collaboration with each patient/family/significant other to address all identified needs.
- Demonstrates the skills and judgment necessary to implement medical plan of care, nursing interventions and procedures as necessary for the care of the patient.
- Evaluates the identified problems, care provided and patient's responses are reassessed to meet patient and family needs to ensure overall quality of care delivered.
- Maintains up-to-date and accurate documentation of nursing care provided to ensure the integration of information for use by the healthcare team, to ensure quality care.
- Maintains current knowledge/certification/licensure. Pursues professional growth and development.
- Provides direct and indirect patient care duties under the guidance and direction of the physicians and/or nurse practitioners.
- Measures vital signs, performs EKGs, venipuncture, capillary blood glucose testing. Interviews patients/clients and/or family members to obtain accurate health information and ensures information is documented in the patients/clients chart. Assists patients/clients or family members with completion of medical forms (as needed).
- Administers injections and medications, dresses wounds and incisions, interprets physicians'/nurse practitioners' instructions to patients, assists with emergency and minor surgery, and performs related tasks as directed and needed.
Benefits Our benefits are designed to encourage a healthy work-life balance.
- Health (Both HSA and FSA options and access to our Telemedicine program)
- Vision
- Free dental and life insurance, and long term disability. Affordable rates for family dental and life insurance.
- 403b retirement match on the 1st of the month after 30 days.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Day One PTO Accrual
- 9 Paid Holidays
Requirements
Required Qualifications: - Current state registration to practice nursing.
- Current BLS Certification within 90 days of hire.
- Two years of related work experience.
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