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Recovery Room Nurse - Champaign

Planned Parenthood of Illinois

#Registered Nurse #BLS #ACLS #Vital Signs #OSHA #CLIA #Patient Care #Medical Emergencies #Patient Screening

Quick overview

Provide nursing care to patients in the recovery room, including monitoring vital signs and dispensing medications. Assist providers during medical emergencies and manage recovery room inventory and equipment logs.

Requirements summary

Must be a Registered Nurse licensed in Illinois with active BLS and ACLS certifications. Previous OB/GYN experience and Spanish language proficiency are preferred.

professional certificateInventory ManagementMedication AdministrationPatient MonitoringOSHA ComplianceEmergency ResponseVital SignsNursing CarePatient ScreeningSpanish SpeakingCLIA RegulationsReproductive HealthAftercare Instruction

Job description

The Recovery Room Nurse is part of the staff team that provides reproductive health services in accordance with Planned Parenthood of Illinois’ policies, protocols, and procedures. Essential Functions: 1. Provide nursing care to patients in PPIL’s health centers’ recovery room in accordance with all Planned Parenthood of Illinois policies and protocols, OSHA/CLIA regulations. 2. Assist providers with emergencies during clinic, screen patients with medical problems, and train staff on medical emergencies. 3. Participate in the follow up of abortion complications, where applicable, achieving abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less. 4. Monitor medications/crash cart, inventory and logs and ensure proper functioning of equipment. 5. Accept individual and joint responsibility for, and participate in health center efforts to achieve:
annual plan (i.e. AB clients to goal)
abortion visits of 3 hours or less;
abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less as defined by the PPFA list of abortion occurrences;
attainment of annual health center fiscal goals in revenue, expenses, and contribution margin. 6. Understand, commit to, and practice a market and customer-oriented approach to health care delivery. 7. Accept individual and joint responsibility for, and participate in, health center efforts to comply with all organizational quality assurance guidelines and all pertinent government regulations including OSHA and CLIA. 8. Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to PPIL core values of access, activism, care, confidentiality, diversity, excellence, integrity, respect, self-determination, and stewardship; practice these values in relations with internal and external customers. Other Responsibilities: 1. Assist and monitor patients in the recovery room. This includes taking vital signs, dispensing medications, fluids, and nutrients, giving verbal and written aftercare instructions and birth control information, and reporting signs or symptoms of post abortion complications to the provider. 2. Assist abortion providers in the procedure room during medical emergencies. 3. As assigned, handle "emergency" patient calls to be shared with the licensed clinical staff or other delegated staff. This includes documentation and follow-up of all calls received. 4. Screen clients with medical problems prior to making abortion appointments in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) or Associate Medical Directors. 5. Monitor controlled substances and crash cart medications and keep logs daily, according to controlled substance policies and procedures. 6. Participate in inventory of medications, and recovery room supplies, including those used for anesthesia on-site. 7. Ensure appropriate follow up is initiated and updated by PPIL protocols. 8. In conjunction with the health center manager, update documentation in adverse events tracker. 9. Take personal responsibility to remain informed about family planning methods, abortion issues and technology, services offered by PPIL, and PPIL protocols, policies and procedures, to give regular feedback to the Health Center Manager regarding training and continuing education needs. 10. Collaborate with Health Center Manager, Regional Directors, and Procedural Abortion and Sedation services Clinical Director, regarding day-to-day Recovery Room operations. 11. Other duties as assigned. Physical Demands: The physical demand characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk, talk, read, see and hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands and fingers to type, handle, or feel and reach. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

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