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Opportunities with Reliant Medical Group , part of the Optum family of businesses. Join a community-based, multi-specialty, physician-led organization where you will work with talented peers on a common purpose: improving the quality, cost and experience of health care. Here, we focus on delivering the best patient care, rather than volume. Through innovation and superior care management, we support patients and your well-being as a team member. Join a team at the forefront of value-based care and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Position Details:

• Location : 761 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA, 01701

• Department : Pediatrics

• Schedule : Part time, 30.25 hours/weekly, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, hours between the hours of 8:00AM – 5:15PM

Responsible for the effective delivery and management of direct patient care utilizing the nursing process and adhering to standards of nursing practice. Provides appropriate care to patients ranging within the ages of infants to geriatrics. Provides pre-visit and post-visit telephonic support and patient education, populating the Electronic Medical Record with historical information, lab findings, and preliminary orders to be reviewed by the physician at the next clinic visit. Ad hoc visits to the clinical sites will also be scheduled to enhance coordination of team-based care.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Effective delivery and management of direct patient care utilizing the nursing process and adhering to standards of nursing practice

• Collecting required information from patients to efficiently triage patients based on illness acuity and office processes

• Providing medical advice to patients who have acute/chronic health conditions as directed by the provider

• Provide patient education regarding illnesses/diagnoses, symptom management, medications, and treatment plans

• Assist care teams with telephone encounters and return calls to patients

• Transfer calls to appropriate staff/care teams

• Assist with medication prior authorizations and medication refills

• Administering nebulizers, medications and vaccines according to the childhood immunization table

• Documents encounter and decision making in EMR in a concise and accurate manner, utilizing the patient's own words as appropriate

• Listens, communicates, and documents simultaneously and navigates computer programs to assess, process, educate and document all information in a professional manner

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing

• Currently licensed as a RN in the State of Massachusetts

• Proven knowledge of various software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, etc.

Preferred Qualifications :

• 1+ years of RN experience

• BLS/CPR certification or ability to obtain within 90 days from hire

• Phone triage experience

• Experience with EMR systems (EPIC)

• Pediatric experience

• Bilingual English/Spanish and/or English/Portuguese

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