Registered Nurse

About St. Anthony’s

Founded in 1950, St. Anthony's is the most comprehensive safety net service center in San Francisco, directly providing food, clothing, medical care, addiction recovery services, access to technology, job training, and other critical resources to the community. Every day we support and are supported by thousands of San Franciscans. Everyone who comes through our doors joins the St. Anthony's team and helps us create a future where all people flourish.

Principal Responsibility

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing safe and efficient care to patients in an outpatient community health center. The Registered Nurse serves as a member of a multidisciplinary care team providing primary and urgent care to a multicultural and diverse patient population, performs professional nursing duties and maintains high standards of patient care.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Guest Engagement

• Performs initial assessment and measurement of vital signs of patients presenting to clinic with urgent/same day visits in a timely manner to determine priority and expedite care if clinically indicated.
• Provides clinical support to providers and participates as part of the health care team to assure coordination and continuity of patient care.
• Provides team-based medical management in collaboration with the patient’s primary care team for patients with chronic disease.
• Performs nursing assessment, implements plan of care and arranges for follow up care for primary care patients including adults and children
• Perform medication reviews, blood pressure and blood sugar checks, and wound care.
• Provide patient education on a variety of health topics (high blood pressure, heart disease, nutrition, diabetes and specific diagnostic procedures).
• Responds to emergencies as they occur in a timely manner with clear delegation to medical assistant staff and reports to medical provider staff.
• Delegates tasks to medical assistants in order to enhance patient care and clinic flow, and mentor medical assistants or volunteer staff.
• Administers immunizations (pediatric/adult), medications and blood draws consistent with current guidelines and established protocols.
• Have flexibility in meeting patients’ needs, and participating in evening and Saturday clinics.
• Collaborating with internal and external medical, psychiatric, substance use management and social service agencies to facilitate entry or services to the pt.; completion of periodic home visits to assess the patient and environment;.
• Participates in the development and implementation of educational programs and materials for patients and their family members.
• Facilitate and support medical providers with procedures.
• Works with other members of the health care team to provide comprehensive primary care services.
• Treat all guests with empathy, dignity, and respect. Seek to understand the other person's perspective and experience.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively across cultures and an openness to learning about cultures not familiar to oneself.

Program Administration and Operations

• Complete reports and all other documentation in according with professional standards.
• Enter data and information electronically as required. Looks up data and reports electronically through a database as requested.
• Understand and follow the organization's programs, policies, and procedures
• Participate in regular training and development opportunities to increase personal capacity to apply innovative approaches to daily workflows, service delivery, and guest care and engagement.
• Routinely checks for communications via telephone, electronic or fax during the course of a clinical day, consults with clinical staff as needed and responds appropriately.
• Utilizes the electronic health record to document all patient encounters and communications pertaining to the patient’s care.
• Uses multiple EHR platforms to gather patient information to assist with patient care planning.
• Provides panel management of patient cohorts with abnormal screening results.
• Evaluate work flow and activities to assure efficiency and quality health care to all patients.

Teamwork

• Communicates effectively with the client/patient, clinic staff, the public at large and departmental staff in a non-discriminatory manner.
• Participates in daily quality improvement (QI) activities.
• Train and act as a resource to non- licensed staff working in the clinic (e.g. Medical Assistants, volunteers, nursing students).
• Participates in pre-clinic daily huddle, identifies high needs patients for the clinic session on an as needed basis.
• Attends and participates in clinic and community meetings, as is appropriate or required.
• Participate in relevant meetings supporting team communication and the program's capacity to fulfill organizational goals and mission.
• Collaboratively works with others to achieve team success.
• Manage stress and pressure situations calmly and responsively. Maintain the capacity to control reactions and awareness of how their behavior or response can impact others.
• Consistently demonstrate integrity while working and representing St. Anthony’s.
• Practice direct, respectful, open, and honest communication with their colleagues. Proactively seeks support from team members or management.
• Demonstrate cooperation with coworkers, management, and the community at large.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires completion of high school and graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred.
• Possession of a valid temporary/permanent California Registered Nurse license.
• Active BLS Certification required.
• Requires thorough working knowledge of modern methods, techniques and procedures used in professional nursing, including understanding of medical terminology and clinic routines, procedures, equipment and facilities.
• Requires the ability to: work cooperatively with others, keep patient case records and prepare related reports; plan, organize, assign and inspect the work of sub-professional subordinates; use good judgment in unusual and emergent situations.
• Prefer one year of experience, preferably in Med-Surgical, Ambulatory care and/or Community Health.
• Proficiency in a second language is strongly desired (e.g. Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, Cantonese, Arabic).
• Excellent interpersonal, listening, oral, and written communication skills are required.
• Familiarity with computers/information systems (e.g., EHR, Microsoft office programs). Ability or willingness to learn to use information and communication technologies (computers, smartphones, and iPads) to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information.
• Knowledge of public health principles and population-based programs. Experience with and/or knowledge of health and environmental issues in the Latino, Asian, LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS and homeless communities.
• Experience in working with a pediatric population and Vaccines for Children program
• Strong personal interaction skills including skills in negotiation and conflict management.
• Experience in ambulatory primary care practice management preferred.
• Experience in working collaboratively with community-based organizations.
• Commitment to St. Anthony Foundation Statement of Values and a desire to work for a social services agency serving the poor.

St. Anthony’s has a diverse workforce, welcoming all ethnicities, faith backgrounds and worldviews. We are also proudly Catholic. Our Franciscan identity is at the core of our mission, namely to uphold the dignity and value of the human person and lift the spirits of those in need to help create a society in which all person's flourish.

People of color, differently-abled people, LGBT, and folks with lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

St. Anthony's is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity of culture, thought, and lived experiences. We seek talented, qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, conviction history, uniform service membership/veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical conditions, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression regardless of physical gender, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

St. Anthony's uses E-Verify to validate our new employees' eligibility to work legally in the United States.