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RN Specialist in Poison Information

  • R0071241
  • Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22904
  • Nursing
  • University of Virginia
The Blue Ridge Poison Center is Expanding!
The Blue Ridge Poison Center just expanded our service area to include Northern Virginia. We are looking for new RN clinicians to join our growing team!

As a registered nurse specialist in poison information (RN SPI), you will be joining a team of toxicologists providing clinical oversight and guidance to the central and southern Virginia region. The Blue Ridge Poison Center serves 54 counties, 19 cities, and 48 hospitals in our area. An RN SPI working in our call center, provides telephone triage, assessment, management and follow up advice while working closely with toxicology fellows and attending’s to manage cases from the public, hospitals, and emergency services medical technicians and paramedics.
A professional clinical ladder has also been implemented to promote growth and development for staff.
Emergency or critical care background is preferred, but not required, and an RN SPI must be able to demonstrate critical thinking, and good clinical decision-making capability. The ability to utilize several different integrated computer platforms, while managing low to high complexity clinical cases, is a necessary skill for success as an RN SPI. Initial training and continuing education is integrated into the first three years of employment, as this is a highly specialized clinical discipline.

  • Provides emergency case management and decision making in the clinical discipline of toxicology
  • Provides telephone triage, assessment, management, and follow up advice to the public, hospitals, and emergency services personnel within the 54 counties served by the Blue Ridge Poison Center
  • Utilizes current and up to date clinical toxicology information, via multiple electronic platforms, to guide the care of patients served
  • Utilizes accurate coding data from the national poison center database to chart, reference, and manage cases using the electronic medical record
  • Recognizes and reports emerging public health threats, including, but not limited to, substances of abuse, water contamination, airborne exposures, etc.
  • Collaborates effectively with the physician team from the Department of Toxicology
  • This job description integrates the ANA Nursing scope and Standards of Practice and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements
    • ANA Scope and Standards of Practice definition of nursing: Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations.
  • Relationship Based Care - Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
  • Relationship Based Care - Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
  • Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating and implementation of care.
  • Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
  • Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, internal and external learning opportunities and recognizes the value of external professional organizations. Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
  • Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities and commitment to standard work.
  • Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.
  • In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.
Position Compensation Range: $39.90 - $53.00 Hourly

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program. BSN required within 5 years of hire
Experience: 3 years of clinical bedside nursing experience
Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) Health Care Provider BLS certification required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Click here to read more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.

 

Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force. Equal Opportunity Employer

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