Part-Time Infusion Nurse in a clinic setting.
Qualifications:
- Be a licensed nurse, with a current license.
- Minimum of one year of infusion nursing experience.
- Work positively and favorably with patients, families, and staff.
Responsibilities/essential functions: The person in this position must be able to perform the following essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations.
- Perform the infusion therapy as directed by physician orders.
- Establish intravenous access per policy and procedure.
- Observe, assess, and document symptoms via nurse notes timely.
- Monitor reactions and patient progress.
- Educate patients and/or caregivers on disease processes, and medications.
- Schedule a follow-up appointment for the next therapy.
- Notify the physician and other personnel (CEO) of the change in the patient’s condition.
- Perform skill outline in the agency’s approved policy and procedure manual.
- Update clinical records according to policy and procedures.
- Update knowledge and skills by attending in-service programs, continuing education programs, seminars, and self-study programs annually.
- Perform inventory count before and after clinic daily, and communicate needs.
- Communicate supply needs PRN.
- Adhere to safe nursing practice standards.
- Maintain professionalism with patient and client staff.
- Collect co-pays as required.
- Call no-show patients PRN.
- Be knowledgeable about the medications to be administered.
- Mix medication per policy and procedure (never before pt arrival).
- Adhere to Medicaid and Medicare regulations.