The Primary Care Nurse provides safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered care in coordination with primary care operations and primary care providers. Partnering with patients, providers, and the care team, the nurse supports quality outcomes for an assigned patient panel while following organizational mission, values, and service standards.
Key duties:
- Represent the organization at health fairs and wellness screenings by providing vitals and administering vaccines/injections within scope.
- Assist with in-office testing (e.g., blood draws, mental status exams, EKGs, walking oxygen studies, point-of-care testing).
- Coordinate care by completing documentation and charting, referral coordination, and event-related data entry.
- Manage triage activities such as result follow-up, messages, and medication refill requests.
- Prepare patients for provider visits (vitals, history/allergy review, medication reconciliation, care gap checks, and rechecks of abnormal vitals).
- Support front-desk/clinical workflows including check-in, insurance/patient data entry, forms/signatures, calls, message dispatch, and appointment scheduling.
Qualifications:
- Minimum: RN licensure and an Associate of Applied Science in Registered Nursing; BLS certification (or successful completion).
- Preferred: Bachelor of Science in Nursing.