Registered Nurses for Pinon Health Center
Contract begins 7/1/2025
1 Base Year plus 2 option years
Services shall be performed at Pinon Health Center in the Ambulatory Health Care Center (Outpatient, Women’s Health, Pediatric, and/or Urgent Care Clinics) and at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility Outpatient/Inpatient Departments including the Emergency Room (ER) as well as other hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities in the Navajo Area IHS within the CCHCF.
Hours are M,T,W and F, 8 to 6, Thursday afternoons from 1 to 6
Nurses must have 3 years of experience, Any state license, nursing degree or diploma, BLS, ACLS, PALS.
Nursing Duties:
- The Contractor shall perform Nursing duties and manage patient’s needs as described in the (PD), identified by the Service Unit and as directed by Supervisor.
- The Contractor shall perform in accordance with the competency standards.
- The Contractor shall provide comprehensive, skilled, and competent nursing care specific to the age of the patients (neonate, infant, school-age, adolescent, adult and geriatric), based on nursing assessment, the nursing process, the provider’s plan of care, where condition and treatments can range from non-critical to critical.
- The Contractor must have knowledge of the nursing process and its application to clinical practice in order to provide individualized, goal-oriented nursing care to the neonate, infant, school-age, adolescent, adult and geriatric patient(s).
- The Contractor must have knowledge of scientific and psychosocial nursing theory, principles, practices, and techniques in order to plan and provide-quality nursing care which meets the physical, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the Indian patient.
- The Contractor must have knowledge of biological aspects of disease processes and illness in order to recognize complications and implement appropriate therapeutic interventions required.
- The Contractor must have knowledge of the medications and dosages in order to recognize their desired effects, side-effects, and complications of their use.
- The Contractor must have the ability to analyze the results of various medical procedures and translate them into appropriate nursing interventions.
- The Contractor must have the ability to work effectively and harmoniously within the health care team and with Indian patients and their families.
- The Contractor follows facility policies and procedures, Joint Commission, OSHA, IHS, and other federal licensing, accreditation and regulating body standards.
- The Contractor operates and mentors specialized equipment such as respiratory equipment, thematic deceives, suction devices, defibrillator, electrocardiographs, etc., reports malfunctions to Bio-Med and /or Maintenance as needed.
- The Contractor interviews patients, family members, and others to appropriately determine triage classification: determines and evaluates appropriate interventions for patients in life threatening situations.
- The Contractor administers therapeutic measure as prescribed by the provider including mediations, intravenous fluids, blood products, respirator treatments, assist with various procedures i.e. splinting, sutures, preparing the patient, assisting during the procedure and evaluating patient outcomes post-procedures.
- The Contractor initiates and participates in patient education. Provides counseling and teaching to patients and families or surrogates on preventive, curative and rehabilitative measures involved in health care.
