The APRN will be responsible for managing the daily operations related to nursing care in line with clinical practice standards.
Tasks and Responsibilities- Oversees clinical nursing care, ensuring compliance with established regulations and standards including quality assurance, confidentiality, and medical record documentation
- Provides direct supervision to Pro-time Nurses and clinical staff, ensuring appropriate assessment and treatment of patient health. Serves as key problem-solving resource for staff on patient issues. Studies patient needs/trends and suggests solutions to ongoing patient care problems.
- Collaborates with Quality Director on development and implementation of Patient Centered Medical Home and Quality initiatives.
- Collaborates with Branch Satellite Director on development and implementation of clinical department's goals, policies, procedures, quality assurance plan, and work standards.
- Develops guidelines for prioritizing work activities, evaluating effectiveness, and modifying activities as necessary. Ensures the clinic is staffed appropriately.
- Assists in the recruiting, hiring, orientation, development, competency testing, education, certification and evaluation of clinical staff.
- Establishes and maintains an efficient and responsive patient flow system.
- Oversee and approves medical supply inventory.
- Supports and upholds established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement, safety, environmental and infection control, and codes and requirements of accreditation and regulatory agencies.
- Handles patient, doctor and staff complaints.
- Fill out incident reports for staff and patients for doctors to sign off on. Conduct fire/tornado drills.
- Conduct Code Blue drills to make sure patients know what to do.
- Oversee all appearance of the office, cleanliness, wear and tear and repair.
REQUIREMENTS- Required: BSN from accredited school of nursing, MSN preferred.
- State of Florida APRN license.
- Ongoing BLS certification.
- Preferred: Preferred coursework in health care administration.
- Required: Minimum five years of professional nursing experience including two years supervisory-level experience, preferably in medical practice setting.
- Must be Board Eligible or Certified in a primary care specialty.
- Bilingual preferred.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Handle the information with high level of confidentiality.
