Pediatric Nurse

*Welcoming all who need care* | **Job title** | *Registered Nurse/ Licensed Practical Nurse Clinic (RN/LPN)* | | --- | --- | | **Reports to** | *Nurse Coordinator* | | **Status** | *Non-Exempt (Hourly $23.60 - $30.50 LPN) (Hourly $27.00 - $37.00 RN)* | **Job purpose** The RN/LPN, Pediatrics is an integral member of the interdisciplinary care team and plays a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centered care to pediatric patients and their families. This position supports providers in the coordination and delivery of clinical services, including patient assessment, triage, administration of medications and treatments, patient and caregiver education, care coordination, and management of daily clinic operations and patient flow. The RN/LPN promotes a positive patient experience while supporting quality outcomes, continuity of care, and Heartland's mission of providing accessible, compassionate healthcare to all who need care. **Duties and responsibilities** - Works in harmony with others, exhibits a positive attitude and commitment to the health center mission. Actions show commitment to team effort, works well with others, supports group objectives, and participates in staff meetings and team problem‑solving - Demonstrates the ability to effectively organize and prioritize work and utilize available resources to assist with efficient patient flow in the clinic - Demonstrates understanding of appropriate nurse to provider ratios, skill levels, and cost effectiveness strategies - Actively assists with routine clinic task, Utilizes established methods to ensure consistency in maintaining emergency supplies, stock medications, immunizations, forms, sterile instrument inventory, equipment, and appropriate exam room inventory, rooming and checking out patients, etc. - Assists in the orientation and education of new nursing employees - Utilizes the health center Performance Improvement processes in identifying the center needs related to any aspect of patient care and customer service - Demonstrates flexibility in work roles and schedules to meet the changing needs of the center - Maintains awareness of new information applicable to job, i.e. policies, meeting minutes, procedures, memos, and protocols - Utilizes slow time constructively to enhance center operations and assists other departments when time and workload permits - Maintains confidentiality of patients and staff - Actively pursues continuing education in order to improve job skills or performance - Ability to identify own areas of needed improvement, and formulates goals to work toward - Utilizes appropriate methods to deal with stressful situations - Understands and supports organizational goals - Meets work schedules, fulfills responsibilities and commitments, i.e. attendance, punctuality, dependability, initiative, productivity and efficiency - Maintains professional appearance; follows established dress code - Follows protocol and perform accurate and thorough work‑ups, check‑ins and check-outs of all patients - Accurately assesses current status as well as preventive health status and communicates needs to provider - Assists with patient education based on assessment of patient needs and clinic standards of nursing care and documents in patient record - Provides skilled nursing care as demonstrated by safely and accurately performing technical skills (sterile dressings, EKGs, pulmonary treatments, etc.) and the safe, accurate administration of medications, IV fluids, and immunizations - Anticipates the needs of providers related to patient visits, and assists providers with patient care - Assumes role of advocate to ensure health needs are met including responding to patient phone messages and requests in a timely and professional manner - Documents all provider orders, nursing actions, and interventions on patient record consistent with health center guidelines - Assists with triage patients on‑site and via telephone for appropriateness and timeliness of ca…