Registered Nurse

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The Registered Nurse is responsible for delivering safe and professional IV therapy for patients on specialty medications that treat neurological, rheumatologic, gastroenterological, and immunological disorders. This role will be highly involved in helping to implementing and support best clinical practices for our clinic, patients, and referral sources.

address:

• Casa Grande Flexcare Infusion
• 520 N Camino Mercado, Ste 2
• Casa Grande, AZ 85122
• Chandler Flexcare Infusion
• 312 North Alma School Rd. Ste 10
• Chandler, AZ 85224

Hours:

• Weekdays - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed below satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides direct patient care in the form of evaluating and documenting patient clinical assessments and IV therapy as aligned with company, federal and state policies for both pediatric and adult patients
• Prepares/compounds sterile admixtures for immediate use per FDA package insert and FlexCare clinical protocol
• Communicates with physicians and other health care providers on clinical services related issues
• Administers necessary medications as necessary to mitigate acute infusion reactions, under the supervision of the infusion center Managing Nurse Practitioner
• Administers prescribed intravenous and subcutaneous medications and biologics, adhering to prescriber order and applicable FDA dosing parameters
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the health care process (self, systems, environment, and instrumentation) in meeting clinical outcomes
• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and clinical operations functioning
• Provides infusion therapy under the scope of FlexCare policies, procedures and clinical drug protocols to ensure coordination and safe delivery of care
• Assists the clinical team in the entry, review and validation of prescriber orders received by faxed referral or verbal order
• Assists in the review of lab work drawn onsite, and the reporting of any critical values to the referring provider
• Assists in the ongoing review of clinical protocols for all infusible/injectables provided by FlexCare to maintain clinical competency
• Assures that all patient related documentation, and clini