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• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Building: John Jay Hall
• Salary Range: $95,000 - $102,000

Position Summary

Columbia Health Medical Services seeks self-motivated Registered Nurse with superior triage and clinical assessment skills. Join our multidisciplinary staff of dedicated college health professionals and play a critical role in providing comprehensive, continuous, and patient-centered care to our diverse student population. The successful incumbent demonstrates clinical judgment and skills in the full range of functions of a Registered Professional Nurse and will be able to identify, assess (including physical assessment) and provides nursing treatment for actual or potential health problems.

Responsibilities

• Triages patients??? complaints using critical assessment skills to include crisis intervention, acute and chronic medical problems for a wide range of health related concerns; performs telephone triage on Nurse Clinical Symptom Lines

• Refers patients for further clinical evaluation and follow-up, either immediate care or future appointment using a computerized system

• Administration of vaccines, medications, allergy shots, ear irrigations, urgent care nursing, pregnancy screening, women???s health counseling to including Plan B

• Formulates and implements nursing projects and guidelines such as reviewing and updating policies and procedures.  Participates in inter-disciplinary committees, programs, and community outreach

• Coordinates care for patients with women???s health, men???s health, and a variety of other health issues

• The Registered Nurse will be available in a designated practice group to serve as a resource to the team for educational needs and delivery of nursing care

• Administers appropriate medications and treatments as prescribed by on-site providers

• Engages in periodic self-evaluation and participates in Peer Review and Quality Assurance

• Provides health education for acute and chronic medical conditions in a self-care model as well as wellness prevention model to patients and the University community

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and current New York State RN license.

• Minimum 2-4 years related experience required.

• Must possess strong clinical assessment and triage skills with proven clinical judgment and skills in the full range of functions of a Registered Nurse.

• Demonstrated ability to maintain and promote interpersonal relationships and work effectively with a multi-disciplinary team.  

• Completion of current CPR and infection control certificate.

• Required to work a minimum of 3-5 Saturdays during the Spring/Fall Term.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ambulatory care, ER, public health or occupational health nursing experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.

About Columbia University

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

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