Teams Nurse - Spanish Speaking Needed - Chelsea, MA
Company: Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care
Location: Chelsea
Posted on: July 10, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Type:Regular Time Type:null Work Shift:Day (United States of
America) FLSA Status:Non-Exempt When you join the growing BILH
team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in
people’s lives. Spanish Speaking Nurse Reporting directly to the
Practice Manager and Senior Director of Nursing, the Team Nurse
position is responsible for performing the duties of a RN/LPN in an
outpatient primary care or family medicine practice and serves as a
clinical resource for the medical practice. The Team Nurse provides
high quality, direct patient care in a team based model to our Beth
Israel Deaconess HealthCare ( BIDHC) patients. The Team Nurse is
responsible for enhancing the safety, effectiveness and efficiency
of patient care through the support and delegation of clinical and
administrative functions as appropriate to the Medical Assistant
(MA) staff. Responsible for educating and training our MA team and
patients with both general and focused health education for
preventive, chronic and episodic health care issues. Assumes
responsibility, in collaboration with primary care providers to
coordinate patient-centered care, support transitions between
levels of care and counsels, educates and supports patients in
improving health status. Job Description: Primary Responsibilities:
1. Coordinate and facilitate quality clinical management of a broad
based outpatient population across the continuum of care.
Collaborates with providers to identify needs for preventive care,
evidence-based chronic disease management and care coordination.
Provides general and specific healthcare education. Works directly
with patients to identify and monitor self-management goals.
(essential) 2. Collaborates care with community based providers.
Follows up on ED visits and inpatient discharges. Assists providers
with exams, treatments and procedures as needed. (essential) 3.
Provides skilled telephonic triage and assessment, education,
collaboration and coordination of healthcare and community
resources. Performs a direct patient care role. Nursing visits
include : Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) and Chronic Care Management
(CCM) of our BIDHC patients. (essential) 4. Responsible for INR
management and teaching for those patients on Coumadin using a
standardized protocol. (essential) 5. Administers vaccines and
medications by parenteral, oral, rectal or nasal route by orders of
the prescribing provider and by the Medication Administration
policy guidelines established by BIDHC . Provides patient education
as appropriate for the administered medication. (essential) 6.
Performs a wide range of nursing activities as needed under the
direction of the provider such as wound care, point of care testing
etc. Accurately documents all aspects of patient care in the
Electronic Health Record in a timely basis. Schedules tests and
referrals for specialty care on order of provider. (essential) 7.
Monitors and ensures follow up of all abnormal test and imaging
results under the direction of the provider. (essential) 8.
Oversees the inventory and ordering management of clinical supplies
and equipment as necessary. Ensures safe, accurate and clinically
appropriate collection, storage and processing of all biologic
specimens. (essential) 9. Provides oversight, delegation and acts
as a resource to unlicensed staff including MAs, Certified Nursing
Assistants and Nursing Students. Provides on-going education and
training to practice staff. Updates clinical knowledge and skills
though consultation, review of literature and formal and informal
education including CEUs. Maintains compliance with organizational
mandatory annual training. (essential) 10. The Team Nurse will
ensure that PHI (Patient Health Information) will only be used for
the purposes of patient TPO (treatment, payment and operations).
The Team Nurse will ensure patient safety practices to
prevent/eliminate risk of patient harm. Adverse patient events and
near misses will be promptly reported to the BIDHC Risk Management
Dept. (essential) Required Qualifications: 1. Graduate from an
accredited Nursing Program required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
2. License Registered Nurse required., or Registration Licensed
Practical Nurse required., and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support
required. 3. 1-3 years related work experience required. 4. CPR
Certification 5. Strong interpersonal skills. Strong patient
communication and patient education skills. 6. Advanced skills with
Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications. May produce
complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.
Competencies: 1. Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that
are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some
interpretation. May make recommendations for solving problems of
moderate complexity and importance. 2. Problem Solving: Ability to
address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or
interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge
and skills based on general precedents. 3. Independence of Action:
Ability to follow precedents and procedures. May set priorities and
organize work within general guidelines. Seeks assistance when
confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations. Work
progress is monitored by supervisor/manager. 4. Written
Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in
written English with internal and external customers. 5. Oral
Communications: Ability to comprehend and converse in English to
communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients,
families and external customers. 6. Knowledge: Ability to
demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices,
procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied
situations. 7. Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small
teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering
ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members. 8. Customer
Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service to
patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional,
service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active
listening and problem solving. Ability to remain calm in stressful
situations. Age based Competencies: Employees in this job must be
competent to provide patient care to the following age groups:
Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 -
over. Social/Environmental Requirements: 1. Work requires periods
of close attention to work with out interruption. Concentrated
effort of up to 4 hours without break may be required. 2. Work
requires constant response to changing circumstances and using new
information to adjust approach and to quickly respond to new needs.
3. Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions - Daily:
Protective equipment required(Respirator, earplugs, mask, gloves,
eyewear etc.), Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or
airborne pathogens, Potential exposure to infectious diseases
and/or bloodborne pathogens. 4. Health Care Status: HCW1: Regular,
day-to-day contact; both face-to-face and hands-on (having close
contact within three feet for at least five minutes). Examples:
physicians, clinical nurses, phlebotomist, medical assistants, PFT
tech, and x-ray tech.- Health Care Worker Status may vary by
department Sensory Requirements: Close work (paperwork, visual
examination), Color vision/perception, Visual monotony, Visual
clarity > 20 feet, Visual clarity Physical Requirements: -
Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or
up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and
employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of
their shift. - This job requires constant sitting, walking,
Endurance-working up to 3-4 hours without a break, frequent
standing, bending neck, bending waist, Power Grasping using one
hand, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using
both hands, Keyboard use, Reaching-above shoulder height,
Reaching-below shoulder height. There may be occasional Push a
wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250
pounds, with assistance. Rarely there may be Pull up and/or
reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance,
Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with
assistance. As a health care organization, we have a responsibility
to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients,
our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health
requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and
COVID-19 as a condition of employment.Learn moreabout this
requirement. More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses,
doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more,
making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion
can make us even stronger. Equal
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