Job description

Ambulatory Registered Nurses

Every day at the more than 80 UT Southwestern Medical Center Ambulatory clinics, over 600 high-caliber nurses come to work and deliver some of the finest care available anywhere. As they contribute their best across a comprehensive range of acclaimed primary and specialty services, they open more doors across a spectrum of roles. We invite you to become part of this team and build your own success with us.

Consider this: As the region’s only full-service academic medical center and an internationally renowned center for medical research and education, with a faculty boasting six Nobel Prize winners, UT Southwestern Medical Center is setting a national standard for innovative and sophisticated care. As a Magnet® designated institution, our nurses are nationally recognized for providing excellent, evidence-based patient care, advancing their practice through research and professional development, and are respected by their colleagues for the important role they play on the patient care team.

We invite you to be part of this collaborative, multidisciplinary clinical team that’s helping us create the future of medicine right here in Dallas. Together, we’ll grow and open career path opportunities that reflect your evolving interests.

****Apply here for all Ambulatory RN positions located on UTSW's Dallas campus ****

Experience and Education

Graduate of an approved/accredited nursing program. Licensure as Registered Nurse by Board of Nurse Examiners for State of Texas and one (1) year of clinical nursing experience is preferred. Specialty areas may have increased experience requirements as dicated by clinic or standard of care. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through a course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) is required.

Job Duties

1. Delivers nursing interventions to assigned patients that are consistent with stated medical plan of care utilizing the nursing process to assess, implement, and record patients' response in the medical record.

2. Schedules patients' appointments, tests, and procedures via on-line computer system or telephone, and reinforces physician instructions in person and through telephone contact.

3. Provides patient education and documents patient's response in medical record.

4. Ensures appropriate patient consents and authorizations are obtained for research and/or medical treatment.

5. Triages patient phone inquiries according to physician and/or departmental protocols and documents such actions in patients' medical records.

6. Provides working supervision and delegates tasks to licensed vocational nurses, non-licensed medical staff, or office support personnel.

7. Proficiency in electronic medical record documentation.

8. Participates in the recommendation of policy and/or procedural changes according to nursing expertise.

9. Prepares equipment and assists physicians during physical exams and medical procedures. Prepares and administers medications as prescribed by physician.

10. Inspects equipment and facilities visually and physically to ensure patient safety and proper functioning of equipment. Maintains adequate stock of supplies as required for work area.

11. Attends and participates in meetings related to clinical activities.

12. Duties performed may include one or more of the following core functions: a) Directly interacting with or caring for patients; b) Directly interacting with or caring for human-subjects research participants; c) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing or similarly affecting patient records (including patient financial records); or d) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing or similarly affecting human-subjects research records.

Salary

**Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned.

Security

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information
Salary Negotiable

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit: why-work-here/diversity-inclusion/

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