RN Home Care (Older Adults) (fhcsd)

Job Description

Impact Lives, Impact Community

Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) is passionate about providing exceptional health care to all, especially underserved communities with limited health care options. Founded by a Latina grandmother/community advocate over 50 years ago in Barrio Logan, FHCSD has grown into one of the largest community health systems in the country. With over 90 sites, over 227,000 patients, and over 1.1 million healthcare visits last year, we provide a wide variety of health care and outreach services to a very diverse patient population. We are proud of our mission, our lasting community impact, and the cultural and individual diversity of our staff.

Clinic Details

• Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 am – 4:30 pm
• Address: 3420 College Avenue, San Diego, CA 92115
• FHCSD PACE Website: https://fhcsdpace.org/services/
• Location Website: FHCSD PACE - College Grove | Clinic Locations
• FHCSD PACE Website: https://fhcsdpace.org/services/

Duties and Responsibilities

• Addresses routine messages in EHR within 2 days, and urgent messages within 1 day.
• Attends Nursing in-services or completes make-up assignments within 2 weeks of assignment.
• Builds positive relationships, inspires others to perform at a higher level, prepares career development plans, and retains an accountable workforce.
• Coaches and counsels staff and administers appropriate disciplinary action promptly.
• Communicates effectively with interdisciplinary care team and support services, including Physicians, PSRs, Medical Assistants, and others. Attends department meetings.
• Completes all required documentation accurately, promptly, and thoroughly by department standards; in addition, documentation complies with patients' insurance requirements. Includes documenting patient history.
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• Consistently follows Policies and Procedures to ensure positive patient outcomes.
• Ensures MAs document patient Vital Signs and pre-assessment questions.
• Keeps clinic workflow moving, focusing on productivity and efficiency, including assigning lunch times and breaks, ensuring the exam room is set up, ordering supplies and vaccines to ensure the correct supply is on hand, supporting provider productivity, reviewing patient problem list before visit with a provider, and calling in refills to the pharmacy.
• Keeps site in compliance with TJC, DHS, CHDP, and Medi-Cal Managed Care requirements.
• Performs nursing tasks, demonstrating Clinical Competency, including Measures height, weight, and vital signs accurately; Performs hearing and vision screenings appropriately; Administers IM medications or immunizations correctly; Administers PO medications or immunizations correctly; Administers subcutaneous immunizations correctly; Administers medications via inhalation correctly; Administers PPD tests correctly; Reads PPD results correctly; Performs EKGs correctly; Assesses immunization records accurately; Performs ear lavage correctly; Sets up sterile field correctly; Performs equipment disinfection and sterilization correctly; Hooks up Oxygen tubing correctly; Suctions patients correctly using appropriate suction equipment; Performs straight catch correctly; Starts IVs correctly. Completes standing orders as directed by the provider.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Performs Waive Testing and Phlebotomy if appropriate training has been completed.
• Provides/ensures staff receives all new hires and annual training on time.

Requirements

• California State Board RN License required.
• Current American Heart Association healthcare provider CPR (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support, or Advance Resuscitation Training required. 
• Graduation from a recognized registered nurse program or equivalent.
• Bilingual in Spanish/English strongly preferred; may be required depending on assignment.

Desired Experience

• At least 3 years of experience in an ambulatory care setting or similar setting is preferred.

Rewards:

• Job type: Regular Full Time

• Competitive Salary with Excellent Benefits

• Retirement Plan with Employer Match

• Paid Time Off, Extended Sick Leave, and Paid Holidays

• Medical/Dental/Vision/FSA/Life Insurance

• Employee Discounts and Wellness Programs

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In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base range for this position, exclusive of fringe benefits.

If you are hired at Family Health Centers of San Diego, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, jurisdictional requirements, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to these factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is what we reasonably expect to pay for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on our benefits offerings is available here: FHCSD Wellness – Employee Hub (gobenefits.net)