RN Job
RN Clinical – RN Triage – Days
Job Description
The Triage Advice Nurse is a practicing registered nurse who provides virtual care to established patients via the telephone or computer utilizing the nursing process, input from physicians, and organizationally approved tele-nursing guidelines and protocols.
Position functions include: e-prescription renewal, level-of-care triage, provision of illness, injury and self-care intervention, advice and consultation to patients, within a contact center environment.
The role requires practitioners to identify, estimate, differentiate or rule out non-urgent/urgent, non-acute/acute, emergent, life-threatening symptoms in order to provide safe and timely disposition of symptoms presented by patients via a contact center environment.
The Triage Advice Nurse will navigate and perform registration, scheduling and other tasks in electronic health record systems, web portal and call management system while interacting with patients and/or family members in a telephony- and web-based environment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Req Bachelor’s Degree Nursing Degree in Nursing (BSN)
- Req 2 years 2 years practical nursing experience required
- Req Demonstrated knowledge and use of physical-, psycho-, social-assessment skills within the scope-of-practice defined by the Board of Registered Nursing and in compliance of state laws and medical nursing standards of care.
- Req Demonstrated high-level skills in problem solving, time management and prioritizing work where the nature of patient inquiries in the contact center environment is unpredictable.
- Req Demonstrated excellence in interpersonal, oral, verbal and written communications.
- Req Professional knowledge of clinical nursing protocols with specific emphasis of disease processes, emergencies, health sciences and pharmacology.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Pref Master's degree Nursing Degree in Nursing, or in progress, strongly preferred * Master’s Degree in Nursing may be in lieu-of Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
- Pref 2 years 2-5 years practical nursing experience preferred
- Pref ER experience preferred
- Pref Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Healthcare Provider from American Heart Association
- Pref Specialty Certification ER certification preferred
- Pref Specialty Certification Nurse triage certification preferred
About the Hospital
At Keck Medicine of USC, diversity means recognizing the richness of our differences and celebrating them together.
Our nurses enjoy a wide array of competitive benefits, including free tuition at USC for both employees and their families.
We provide exceptional healthcare, retirement benefits and quality of life programs designed to help you make the most of your experience at Keck Medicine of USC; and discounts on a wide variety of services, including public transportation passes, campus fitness center memberships and event tickets.
