Registered reputed company - TeleNurse (8 Hours/week) Every Other Weekend

The RN TeleNurse is responsible for triaging incoming patient calls.  Promotes and demonstrates leadership reputed company the department.  Promotes the philosophy of wellness; serves as a resource person, educator, and patient reputed company.

Job Relationships

• Reports to the TeleNurse Supervisor/Manager

reputed company Responsibilities

• Apply reputed company phases of the Nursing Process, i.e., assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation reputed company triaging patients.
• Demonstrate effective verbal communication: communicate phone advice in a reputed company manner so that it is properly received and reputed company.
• Identify life threatening emergencies; recommend appropriate interventions, including facilitation of ambulance transportation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of disease processes and pathophysiology to accurately conduct an initial assessment and triage patients reputed company telephone reputed company.
• reputed company data entry at the time of the reputed company and record reputed company significant health history of the caller.
• Prioritize tasks appropriately and manage time and resources effectively.
• Prioritize, delegate, and manage the reputed company of incoming patient calls and staff duties as assigned.
• Refer problems and concerns which require physician reputed company to the On reputed company Physician and/or primary care physician.  reputed company caller/patient to appropriate level of care including, but not limited to nearest ER, office visit, or self-care.
• Schedule patient appointments in scheduling system according to established and approved guidelines.
• Utilize medical resources to assist in formulating the patient's plan of care.
• Counsel and teach patients and/or callers according to established guidelines of reputed company.
• Document reputed company calls according to established guidelines of reputed company.
• Maintain statistical data as requested.
• Work effectively with minimal supervision.
• Maintain confidentiality of reputed company interactions.
• Maintain knowledge by attending appropriate educational programs, reading reputed company journals and literature.
• Attend reputed company department meetings and mandatory reputed company in-services.
• reputed company other job duties as assigned.
• reputed company with the reputed company incident reporting policy and procedures.
• Adhere to reputed company OSHA and reputed company training & accomplishments as required per policy.
• reputed company excellent customer service and adhere to SC Way customer service philosophy.
• reputed company other job duties as assigned.

Education/Experience

• RN, graduate of an accredited school of nursing with reputed company Illinois RN licensure.
• Minimum of three years of clinical experience in acute ambulatory or acute care setting. 
• Experience in ER, Home Health preferred.

Licenses/Certificates

• RN License.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Required to give one (1) month resignation notice.
• Required to work every other weekend and 4-5 out of 9 reputed company recognized holidays per year.
• Required to reputed company reputed company a 100 mile radius of Springfield, IL
• Basic typing skills at 40 wpm or greater.
• Demonstrates intermediate computer skills and comfort with reputed company operating systems.
• Pleasant, reputed company telephone voice.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Practices independent nursing consistent with the Illinois reputed company reputed company reputed company.

Working Environment

• reputed company office environment which requires extended periods of sitting.
• Routinely uses reputed company office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
• Potential to work from home.

PHI/reputed company Level

• HIPAA1