Sr. Staff Nurse

Extended Job Title

Sr. Staff Nurse

Position Description

Employees in this classification are responsible for providing professional nursing care in an assigned specialty or subspecialty clinic. They perform a variety of general and specialized nursing duties as part of a total health care team to provide the patient with complete evaluations. Employees in this position generally assist the head nurse in the supervision of other clinic personnel and may substitute for this person in the event of his/her absence. May supervise and instruct subordinate nursing personnel. Receives supervision from head nurse or physician, functions independently within guidelines. May supervise ancillary nursing personnel in the performance of certain tasks, and assists in training personnel. Work is performed under usual clinic conditions and requires a high degree of contact with patients, families, and other clinic personnel and outside professionals.

Major/Essential Functions

• Assists in determining the physical and mental health status, needs, and preferences of culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse patients and their families.
• Communicates patient data using EMR to support decision-making to improve patient care.
• Implements teaching plans for patients and their families with health learning needs.
• Participates in the identification of patient needs for referral to resources and facilitates continuity of care.
• Assists with or performs exams and procedures and documents intervention in EMR.
• Takes and records accurate vital signs and
• Communicates with patients via telephone per clinic protocols.
• Prepares and operates necessary equipment and instruments for examinations, treatments and procedures.
• Sterilizes and disinfects medical equipment.
• Stocks and Inspects inventory of supplies in examination and treatment rooms.
• Completes Annual Nursing Core Competency Training and Skills Fair.
• Appropriately triage incoming symptom-based calls and measurements.
• Reports data, identifies and reports alterations in patient responses to assist in the identification of problems and formulation of goals/ outcomes and patient-centered plans of care in collaboration with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team.

Optional Duties

• Assigned to work in symptom-based call pool
• Assigned to cover other areas as deemed by nursing supervisors
• Assigned to work with an allergist if needed, as well as do allergy testing, injections, and allergy serum mixing.