Abortion and Family Planning Nurse - Illinois City Illinois

Company: Private Health Care Organization
Location: Illinois City, Illinois
Posted On: 05/16/2024

Job DescriptionJob Description
Abortion and Family Planning Nurse
The Abortion and Family Planning Nurse is part of the staff team that provides reproductive health services in accordance with The Private Healthcare Organization's policies, protocols, and procedures.
Essential Functions:
1. Provide nursing care to patients in PPIL's health centers in accordance with all of The Private Healthcare Organization's policies and protocols, and OSHA/CLIA regulations.
2. Provide nursing care in abortion services. This includes assisting and monitoring patients in recovery room, taking vital signs, dispensing medications, giving verbal and written aftercare instructions and birth control information, and reporting signs or symptoms of post abortion complications to physician or advanced practice provider. This also includes conducting ultrasound for gestational dating and counseling and consenting patients on abortion services.
3. Provide nursing care in family planning services. This includes conducting limited patient intakes, taking vital signs, dispensing medications, giving verbal and written patient information, and signing off visits completed by unlicensed staff.
4. Assist physician or advanced practice provider with emergencies during clinic, screen patients with medical problems, and train staff on medical emergencies.
5. Oversee abortion complications and follow-up, achieving abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less.
6. Monitor medications/crash cart, inventory and logs and ensure proper functioning of equipment.
7. Accept individual and joint responsibility for, and participate in health center efforts to achieve:
- annual plan (i.e. Family Planning and Abortion clients to goal)
- abortion visits of 3 hours or less and clinician visits of 1 hour or less;
- abortion medical occurrence rate of 1% or less as defined by the organization's list of abortion occurrences; -
- attainment of annual health center fiscal goals in revenue, expenses, and contribution margin.
8. Understand, commit to, and practice a market and customer-oriented approach to health care delivery.
9. 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.
10. Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to remain informed about organizational protocols, policies, and procedures.
11. Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to the Organization's 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 physician or advanced practice provider in procedure room during medical emergencies.
2. Handle "emergency" patient calls, to be shared with the licensed clinical staff or other delegated staff as assigned. This includes documentation and follow-up of all calls received.
3. Screen clients with medical problems prior to making abortion appointments in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer or Associate Medical Directors.
4. Monitor controlled substances and crash cart medications and keep logs daily or monthly as indicated by protocols.
5. Take monthly inventory of abortion medications. Perform monthly inventory of recovery room medications and supplies including those used for anesthesia on-site as requested.
6. Review all abortion-related pathology reports. Deliver appropriate follow-up to patients. May include reviewing, signing off, and documenting receipt of reference lab pathology reports for the Organization's Surgical Abortion sites.
7. Serve as primary clinical staff responsible for answering abortion "problem" phone calls received through the call center and calling patients for routine abortion follow up issues as requested. Ensure follow up is completed per PPIL protocols.
8. In conjunction with the health center manager, supervise maintenance of the complication log & completion of occurrence reports as requested.
9. Take personal responsibility to remain informed about family planning methods, abortion issues and technology, services offered by the organization, and organizational 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 Medical Director regarding day-to-day health center 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 accommodations 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.
Supervisor: Medical Director and Health Center Manager
Status: Full-time. Non-exempt from the overtime provisions of the wage and salary -
regulations.
Qualifications:
Education: A Licensed Practical Nurse or Registered Nurse licensed in the state of Illinois.
Experience: Previous experience in an OB/GYN related field preferred but not required. Spanish speaking preferred but not required. -
Professional and Personal Qualities: Commitment to the efficient and customer-oriented provision of services, as well as commitment to the operating goals of the Private Healthcare Organization. Willingness to participate in a team approach to health care delivery.


The Private Healthcare Organization works affirmatively to include diversity among its workforce and does not discriminate in the selection of its staff based on factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income, marital status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. We know that BIPOC and women identifying candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every requirement. Please do not be deterred if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting. We encourage you to apply anyway! You may be exactly who we are looking for!
Company DescriptionWe work affirmatively to include diversity among its workforce and does not discriminate in the selection of its staff based on factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income, marital status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. We encourage diverse candidates to apply for this position.Company DescriptionWe work affirmatively to include diversity among its workforce and does not discriminate in the selection of its staff based on factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income, marital status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. We encourage diverse candidates to apply for this position. More...

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