Registered Nurse (RN) - Infusion
Rapid City Medical Center, LLP
Location
Rapid City, SD | United States
Job description
Looking for a career in healthcare but also want a great work and life balance? Come work at RCMC where there are no nights, no weekends, no holidays!
Rapid City Medical Center has full-time Registered Nurse position available in Infusion. Responsible for providing professional nursing care to clinic patients under supervision of attending physicians.
Current nursing license required.
Who We Are:
Rapid City Medical Center is a physician clinic providing excellence, choice, and patient-inspired care. We focus on building relationships with our patients, regularly connecting as partners on the journey of health. Our physicians use leading-edge technology to augment their medical skills. Ninety physicians and advanced practice providers work together with over 400 employees to make physician and test appointments efficient and effective and insurance interactions workable.
We thrive on working with smart, caring people. What we do is sometimes hard - but we do it because we serve our families, friends, and neighbors in something meaningful. Work-life balance and career satisfaction are important to us. We offer unmatched benefits, competitive wages, and the opportunity to feel great about your job.
We offer an outstanding benefits package that includes health, dental, 401k, profit sharing, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability, seven paid holidays and floating birthday, paid time off (PTO) accrual, as well as flexibility in the schedule to accommodate important personal and family milestones.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Assesses patient's general condition and takes vital signs.
- Administers prescribed medications and treatments as ordered.
- Adheres to infection control/safety guidelines and confidentiality policies.
- Document visit in each patient's medical record.
- Monitor patient during infusion.
- Consult in house physician as needed.
- Perform prior authorizations as necessary and ensure patient's insurance is verified before infusion.
- Schedule appointments for patients and contact ordering physician if patient does not get infusions as instructed.
- Maintain policies and protocols for the Infusion Clinic.
- Keep a stock of drug and supplies as needed.
- Provide coverage to The Endoscopy Center for accessing indwelling port catheters for IV access as needed.
- Maintain inventory records of all drugs.
- Check voice mail frequently and return all calls by the end of the day.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE:
- Knowledge of basic nursing principles and protocols.
- Knowledge of policies and procedures related to infection control, environmental safety and patient confidentiality.
- Knowledge of medical chart reporting/records.
- Knowledge of infusion pumps.
ENVIRONMENTAL/WORKING CONDITIONS: Combination of office and exam offices. Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, bodily fluids, toxic substances, medicinal preparations. Hepatitis B vaccination and TB test required.
PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS: Varied activities including sitting, walking, stooping, lifting, bending, reaching. Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and to lift 100 pounds. Occasional stress from workload. Must be able to use a variety of office equipment including phone, copier, PC, fax and medical equipment including infusion pump and blood pressure cuff.
This description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions may change as needs evolve.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.
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