Advice Nurse

Uses the nursing process, input from physicians, and Sutter Health's approved telephone nursing guidelines and protocols to maintain highly efficient operations, to provide quality care, and to ensure positive patient outcomes. Assesses patients' needs, appropriately dispositions cases, collaborates with the clinic and hospital-based providers to renew electronic prescriptions, identifies hospital and community resources, consultations and referrals, and preforms nursing follow-up activities. Clinical support includes assisting physician partners with message management and other communications within the electronic medical record (EMR) system, as well as limited patient care in an outpatient setting.

EDUCATION - Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. TYPICAL

Experience

• 2 years recent relevant experience. Skills and knowledge include: Professional knowledge of clinical nursing protocols, regulations, and institutional standards of care and risk management with an emphasis in the areas of disease processes, emergencies, health sciences, and pharmacology. Advanced clinical knowledge of medical diagnoses, procedures, protocols, treatments, and terminology, including a working knowledge of state and federal regulations and guidelines. Solid analytical and project management skills, including the ability to analyze problems, situations, practices, and procedures, reach practical conclusions, recognize alternatives, provide solutions, and institute effective changes. Communication, interpersonal, and interviewing skills. Manage multiple priorities/projects simultaneously. Ensure the privacy of each patient’s protected health information (phi). Analyze possible solutions using precedents, existing departmental guidelines and policies, experience, and good judgment to identify and solve standard problems. Build collaborative relationships with peers, physicians, nurses, administrators, and public to provide the highest quality of patient care.