Must adhere to established policies, procedures, and/or guidelines in place for administering care to designated patient population. Leads health care team by influence and role modeling integrated effective nursing practice, service, innovation and providing outstanding support for physician practices. Facilitates the coordination and integration of care between health care services manages populations of patients to ensure appropriate utilization of health care resources.Initiate appropriate consultations and/or actions accordingly. Review and monitor therapy and treatment patient plans. Referring to medical or community agencies per Kaiser Permanente guidelines those patients who need further treatment, evaluation, or assistance. Provides therapy and treatment that is supportive and restorative to life and well being either directly to the patient or indirectly through consultation with, delegation to (per Colorado State Board of Nursing rules and regulations for delegation), supervision of, or teaching others.Administers intravenous therapy and other medications. Executes delegated medical functions which delivers aspects of care that implement and are consistent with the medical plan as prescribed by a licensed or otherwise legally authorized physician or person acting under the physicians delegated authority.Provides health teaching and health counseling to patients and/or their families.Evaluates emergency situations and initiates appropriate nursing interventions.Conducts telephone calls backs to patients requiring follow-up care. Triages patients either in person or via telephone and implements proper course of action in accordance with established protocol/guideline or in consultation with provider.Uses data to identify health care problems and create plan.Adopted from Colorado State Nurse Practice Act CRS 12-38-103) Evaluating health status through the collection and assessment of health data CRS 12-38-103 (10). Reports safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions promptly. Ensures patient safety in the preparation and provisioning of care related to but not limited to medications including the consistent use of 5 rights and 3 checks of medication administration, procedures, infection prevention, fall prevention, including consistent use of two patient identifiers and procedural time outs. Demonstrates quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice in every interaction with patients, colleagues, providers, and leadership. This position, knows and complies with all Kaiser Permanente quality, safety, and emergency policies and procedures.Considers how actions or plans will affect members responds quickly to meet member/patient needs and resolves problems. Builds rapport and cooperative relationship with members/patients. Actively seeks information to understand member/patient circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs. Makes members/patients and their needs a primary focus of ones actions develops and sustains productive member/patient relationships. Such functions include the initiation and performance of nursing care through health promotion, supportive or restorative care, disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disease, ailment, pain, injury, deformity, and physical or mental condition using specialized knowledge, judgment, and skill involving the application of biological, physical, social, and behavioral science principles. Practices professional nursing by the performance of both independent nursing functions and delegated medical functions in accordance with accepted practice standards.
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