Description
**Job Type:** Regular
**Time Type:** Part time
**Work Shift:** Day (United States of America)
**FLSA Status:** Non-Exempt
**When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.**
20 hours per week (2 x 10 hours shifts)
Monday through Friday, with a Saturday rotation (4 hours)
**Job Description:**
The Anticoagulation Registered Nurse facilitates the coordination of care across the continuum and demonstrates safe practice within the domains of:
- Clinical judgment and decision making
- Professional relationships
- Clinical leadership
- Clinical scholarship
**Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:**
-Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
-Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
-Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determine how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
-Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
-Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
-Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
-Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
-Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
**Key Responsibilities:**
They serve as a drug information and educational resource for the pharmacy staff, patients, residents/students, medical staff, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals
Practices nursing in accordance with laws, rules and regulation of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing, Department of Public Health, U. S. Food and Drug Administration, and Drug Enforcement Administration and in accordance with established departmental policies and procedures
Monitors patients in a specific unit/specialty service, including collecting patient-specific data, interpreting drug-related laboratory data, performing relevant physical assessments, interviewing patients, and identifying patient goals of therapy
Under protocol, initiates, adjusts, monitors, and recommends changes in drug therapy based on information obtained through patient interviews, objective monitoring parameters, physical assessments as related to drug monitoring and adverse effect management, review of medication profiles and the patient medical records
Documents clinical interventions in the electronic health record in a timely and professional manner
Coordinates and interprets laboratory monitoring of drug therapy, including serum drug levels, electrolytes, and other approved drug-related laboratory testing
Provides patient monitoring for the purpose of evaluating and optimizing patient outcomes, drug utilization and patient compliance, detecting and/or minimizing ADR's, eliminating unnecessary drug use and duplication
Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers
Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s)
Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner
Provides initial and ongoing education to patients regarding warfarin, other medications, health status, diet and activity level. Interprets INR and adjusts warfarin dosing, using practice guidelines and clinical judgment for each patient.
Participates in continuing education pertinent to anticoagulation, maintains BLS and/or ACLS status.
The Anticoagulation Clinic at Lahey Hospital & Medical center offers two sites for patients: Burlington and Peabody.
Other duties as assigned.
**Experience and Preferred Qualifications:**
Minimum 5 years of related inpatient or outpatient nursing experience strongly preferred
Advanced medical and cardiology terminology
Clinical assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation skills
EPIC knowledge
Graduate of a state approved and/or accredited School of Nursing
BSN preferred
Current RN license to practice professional nursing from the Massachusetts Board of Registration
BLS or ACLS certification with American Heart Association
Under the general supervision of the Administrative Director in Collaboration with the Associate Chief of Ambulatory Nursing Practice the Staff Registered Nurse: Ambulatory Care practices within the Lahey Clinic Professional Practice Model, MA Nurse Practice Act, ANA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and demonstrates Lahey Clinic's core values that reflect its Mission. The nurse-patient/family relationship, continuity of care and accountability are central to the delivery of individualized high quality patient care. The Staff Nurse: Ambulatory works in collaboration with the physician(s), other healthcare provider(s) and other ambulatory support staff within the department and with other disciplines to plan and coordinate the delivery of patient care.
The Staff Registered Nurse: Ambulatory demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide expected standards of care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, spiritual, safety and age-appropriate considerations of patients.
The Staff Registered Nurse: Ambulatory, in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act of Massachusetts Rules & Regulations- 244 CMR 3.0, shall bear full and ultimate responsibility for the quality of nursing care he/she provides to individuals and groups. Responsibilities include health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning and restoration of optimal functioning and comfort or for the dignified death of those they serve.
The Staff Registered Nurse: Ambulatory
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