Registered Nurse-CHS (309-120)

Comprehensive Health Services (CHS) health centers are setting a new standard in onsite health care delivery, enabling you to deliver the highest quality in patient care. Founded in 1975, CHS is focused exclusively on managing workforce health programs for major corporations and government agencies. With best practices developed by more than 30 years of experience, CHS helps employers with large, dispersed, or mobile workforces achieve healthier employees, lower absenteeism, fewer injuries, lower long-term risk and lower payouts for disability and employee health costs. Explore career options at one of our 75+ onsite health centers, providing proactive health care for the nation’s leading employers. Become a member of tomorrow’s health care delivery today. Every body wins with CHS!

CHS has a full time opening for a registered nurse to work at our onsite health unit clinic at Seaboard Foods in Guymon, OK. This person will work with a team of health care professionals providing direct patient care to employees and their dependants.

SCOPE:

Performs variety of professional duties involved in developing and delivering health care and nursing services for on-site services to client companies. Assists in planning, implementing and evaluating health maintenance and health education programs; contributes to the design of health controls and surveillance relative to toxic or hazardous conditions in the work environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor degree in Nursing and current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State where practicing. Two years of experience in nursing/triage, hospital emergency service, public health nursing, or any combination of the above is required. American Heart Association Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification. Bi-lingual in Spanish is required.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promotes and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing process via the CHS nursing guidelines; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staffs; providing physical and psychological support for patients, friends and families.
  
• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
  
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
  
• Promotes patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling patient, friends, and family and reinforcing their understanding of disease, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
  
• Communicates well with patients, visitors, family, and coworkers.
  
• Maintains a professional and positive attitude.
  
• Properly and efficiently performs triage of patients - in person and on the phone.
  
• Utilizes sound and appropriate critical clinical thinking assessment skills in conjunction to CHS clinical guidelines.
  
• Communicates patient conditions, signs, symptoms, and all other pertinent medical information to provider.
  
• On occasion will schedule patient appointments.
  
• On occasion will see patients as a nurse only visit with medical direction by medical director or mid-level provider.
  
• Will only carry out medical orders from medical director or mid-level providers that correlate with CHS clinical guidelines.
  
• Draw labs and process blood work per CHS policies and procedures.
  
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing; State Nurse Practice Act, and other governing agency regulations.
  
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
  
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
  
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
  
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient electronic medical records.
  
• Maintains HIPPA compliance and holds patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
  
• Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
  
• Reviews nursing supplies inventory and informs administrator of needed supplies. Verifying receipt of supplies, using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
  
• Maintains professional knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
  
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating informational responding to requests; building rapport, participating in team problem-solving methods.
  
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
  
• Fosters a team approach to patient care.
  
• Other duties as assigned by medical director, practice administrator, or CHS management team.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Bilingual in Spanish required

Tools and Equipment used:

Proficient in operation of computer and medical equipment for physical exams and treatments:

• Electronic Medical Record
  
• Fax machine
  
• Phone system
  
• Compressor nebulizer
  
• AED

Physical Requirements:

• Work involves prolonged periods of standing, computer operation, good eye/hand coordination and lifting up to 40 lbs.
  
• Sitting for periods of time.