Primary Care Nurse (New Graduate RN)

Job Description

Job Description: Primary Care Nurse (New Graduate RN)

CHC is actively seeking enthusiastic New Graduate RN’s eager to make a significant impact on community care. If you are a new graduate nurse committed to improving health outcomes, we invite you to connect with us.

This posting aims to identify qualified candidates for future Primary Care Nurse (PCN) positions as they become available. Please refer to our full list of openings for specific, currently active job descriptions.

Position Summary

The Primary Care Nurse (PCN) delivers high-quality, comprehensive, and professional nursing care to individuals and families across all life stages within a primary care setting. Working as an integral part of a clinical team, the PCN operates at the top of their licensure to enhance the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of patient care. This is achieved through the performance of professional nursing responsibilities and the appropriate delegation of technical and clerical functions to medical assistants.

The PCN provides patients with both general and focused health education concerning preventive, chronic, and episodic health care issues. In collaboration with primary care providers, the PCN assumes responsibility for coordinating care, supporting transitions between different levels of care, and counseling, educating, and supporting patients in their journey to improve health status. This role actively applies principles of advanced access, planned care, the chronic care model, and rapid cycle performance improvement using the PDSA approach within CHCI.

Responsibilities

• Supports primary care for patients under a planned care model, collaborating with Primary Care Providers (PCPs) to identify needs for preventive care, evidence-based chronic disease care, and care coordination.
• Provides general and specific health care education to patients.
• Works with patients to identify and monitor self-management goals.
• Collaborates on patient care with other community-based providers.
• Conducts follow-up on emergency room visits and hospital discharges to ensure continuity of care.
• Assists providers with examinations, treatments, and procedures as needed.
• Ensures the safe, accurate, and clinically appropriate collection, storage, and processing of all biologic specimens.
• Administers medications, including vaccines and immunizations, orally, subcutaneously, intramuscularly, intradermally, or via nebulizer, strictly adhering to prescribing provider orders and established CHCI standing orders.
• Adheres to CHC protocols regarding documentation of medication, route, dosage, and information provided to the patient.
• Monitors patient response to administered medication, detecting, reporting, and responding to any adverse reactions.
• Provides appropriate patient education related to administered medications.
• Performs a wide range of nursing activities as needed, such as wound care and catheterization, after initial prescription by a primary care provider.
• Accurately documents all aspects of patient care in the medical chart on a timely basis.
• Schedules tests and referrals for specialty care as ordered by the provider.
• Maintains strict infection control standards in accordance with CHCI protocols, universal precautions, OSHA, and CLIA standards.
• Acts as a resource person for medical assistants regarding patient preparation, needs, and required procedures.
• Monitors and ensures follow-up of all abnormal Pap Smear results, STDs, lead screens, and other tests and screenings performed at CHCI.
• Oversees the maintenance of supplies and equipment, ordering supplies as necessary.
• Maintains compliance with agency mandatory annual training (Patient Safety, Abuse, Age Based Competencies, EOC, Abuse trainings, etc.).
• Demonstrates expert use of the electronic health record to ensure timely, safe, and confidential storage and retrieval of patient information.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN)

Organization Information

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), with offices in Connecticut, Colorado, and California, stands as one of the country’s most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services. CHC is also a recognized leader in practice-based research, health professionals training, and the use of innovative technologies to advance health and healthcare.

Designated as a federally qualified health center and a patient-centered medical home by HRSA, the Joint Commission, and NCQA respectively, CHC delivers over 600,000 patient visits per year. These visits occur across primary care hubs and community clinics throughout the state of Connecticut, all interconnected by technology and common quality standards. CHC employs several hundred medical, dental, and behavioral health providers engaged in practice, teaching, and research.

Our Weitzman Institute is dedicated to research and practice transformation, recognized nationally as a premier research institute focused on improving health care and health outcomes for special and vulnerable populations. Additionally, CHC has developed three wholly owned subsidiaries from initial pilot developments within the Weitzman Institute: the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium (NNPRFTC), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA), and the CeCN.

Location

Connecticut Pediatrics @ CHC – Hartford, Connecticut

Employment Type

Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

MWHS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.