Ambulatory Float RN

Why Join KANA

Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) is a Tribal health organization committed to elevating the lives of the people we serve. At KANA, employees are more than staff members; they are part of a mission driven team committed to meaningful work, community impact, and long-term growth.

Benefits & Perks

• 401(k) retirement plan with a 7% employer contribution beginning in year two, paid regardless of employee contribution
• Paid Parental Leave
• 80% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Access to 20+ medical plan options through federal OPM benefits
• Employer-paid life insurance at 2.5x annual salary
• AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability coverage
• Generous paid time off and 13 paid holidays
• Free gym membership to the KANA Wellness Center
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition assistance and reimbursement programs
• Leadership development and internal advancement opportunities
• Eligibility for IHS and NHSC loan repayment programs (role dependent)
• Potential temporary housing assistance for relocating employees, based on availability

Position Overview

The Ambulatory Float Pool Registered Nurse is an outpatient flexible position, working in team support, patient care administration and direct patient care capacity with a variety of day-to-day tasks and/or physical location.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports the organization’s mission and goals and quality standards. Embraces KANA’s culture of serving the whole person through our provision of services. Incorporates KANA’s core values of Courtesy, Caring, Respect, Sharing, and Pride in all activities and decisions.
• Upholds KANA’s Code of Ethics by conducting professional activities with honesty, integrity, respect, fairness, and good faith in a manner that reflects positively upon the organization.
  
• Work within a team-based model of care to support colleagues and patients with excellent customer service. Communicate effectively with colleagues and patients; appropriately manage orders from and proposing orders to providers; follow RN triage and case management protocols. Ensure patients’ concerns are appropriately addressed in a timely fashion. Accurate and timely documentation in EMR.
  
• Respond to urgent or emergent medical situations based upon nursing standards, policies, procedures and protocols.
  
• Participate in quality improvement protocols or projects as requested.
  
• Ensure compliance with all health care regulations, including HIPAA, OSHA and quality measures according to AAAHC accreditation and HRSA clinical measures.
  
• Provides coverage across the Nursing Department as needed.
  The Float Pool RN will be asked to flex between the various RN duties at KANA based on patient and staff needs. Below are some of the duties that will be in the Float Pool RN rotation.
  
• Triage Registered Nurse:
  Prioritize and triage patients on the floor as needed and by telephone call, implementing triage policy protocols to facilitate care advice, coordination of care, coordination of recommendations with medical providers when needed, and elevation of situations to a higher level of care when necessary.
  
• Independently address patient, family, provider, staff, and outside facility calls concerning a wide variety of topics with excellent customer service.
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• Perform triage assessment by phone and in the office, process provider orders in an accurate and timely fashion, propose orders to providers appropriately by protocol.
  
• Collect information regarding the patient’s concerns, medical history and description of symptoms via the telephone using the nursing process. Use symptom-based protocols to systematically assess and address the patient’s needs. Care for patients in a timely manner.
  
• Infection Control/Employee Health Registered Nurse:
  During gaps in IC/EH RN coverage, the Float Pool RN will help with those duties. This will include attention to infection control prevention measures within KANA, infection prevention and surveillance programs, and infection mitigation efforts.
  
• Participate in blood borne pathogen exposure assessment, treatment and follow up.
  
• Participate in preventative screening programs (e.g. TB skin testing, influenza, hepatitis B, MMR, varicella and other appropriate immunizations) and surveillance programs designed to identify and monitor risks to the employee’s health.
  
• Responsible for all pre-employment testing and vaccination processes, annual N95/TB/Influenza testing and/or vaccinations, and the management of potential blood exposures, employee illnesses and disease outbreaks.
  
• Maintain a system for reporting possible incidents of communicable diseases and notify the Public Health Department and the State of Alaska Health Department and Social Services of any reportable diseases, adhering to all internal, local and state procedures.
  
• Ambulatory Floor Registered Nurse:
  Participate in all aspect of patients’ clinical encounters: prepare the exam room and equipment, welcome and escort patients, perform patient clinical intake, report to provider, assist provider with exams and screenings as requested, facilitate patient education and discharge. Maintain sterile supplies.
  
• Work with providers, phone triage RNs, RN case managers, and SRS staff to ensure efficient patient flow and patient access to medical providers as needed. Continuously review patient schedule to ensure patients are greeted in a timely fashion.
  
• Give medication, injections or treatments, and perform routine laboratory tests as ordered.
  
• Contact patients to report labs and other diagnostic results as requested by providers. Process phone calls or portal communications from patients, routing as appropriate, and responding in a timely manner.
  
• Request medical records from other health care facilities as needed.
  
• Clean and stock rooms; disinfect exam room tables, treatment and lab surfaces daily; prepare and sterilize clinical instruments. Review expiration dates for sterilized equipment and re-sterilize equipment as needed to ensure a readily available supply.
  
• Schedule qualified patients for appointments based on established protocol, identified need, and availability of appointments; follow up with patients/families who have not kept important appointments.
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• Monitor and maintain routine population health screenings located in the EHR and other patient registries as appropriate.
  
• See patients in Nursing Clinic for injections, vital signs, other assessments appropriate for level of training and per-protocol care at the direction of the medical team.
  
• Maintain flexibility and assist other floor staff as needed to keep clinic flow and patient care efficient; communicate with patient if they may need to wait for a provider.
  
• Registered Nurse Case Manager:
  Participate in daily team huddles, work with team members to ensure appropriate pre-visit preparation including culturally and linguistically appropriate services, planning for health maintenance measures due for each patient, preparing treatment rooms for clinical examinations and assisting providers with medical procedures and other patient care.
  
• Manage patient’s acute needs as they arise and chronic needs for disease management and prevention.
  
• Monitor schedule throughout day to ensure appropriate scheduling.
  
• Serve as first point of contact for patients within their assigned medical provider's panel.
  
• Coordinate prior/pre-authorizations, assisting with appointments, medication refills, and obtaining up-to-date medical records in EHR.
  
• Review monthly statistics generated from reminder reports and EHR whenever possible to identify opportunities for improvement.
  
• Plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate patient care activities to identify and implement Quality Improvement initiatives.
  
• Arrange and track the progress of referrals, outcome of patient care to ensure proper follow-up, and evaluate patient care delivery.
  
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary patient care conferences as needed.
  
• Provide appropriate patient education, addressing both preventive and acute health care needs.
  
• Immunization Nurse:
  Maintenance of KANA’s immunization program including: Order and receive vaccines through VacTrak; inventory upkeep of vaccines; administer immunizations per protocol; coordinate with patients, primary care teams, and villages on vaccine needs; track and record vaccine information as needed; correspond with patients due for immunization; daily temperature checks; and, provide staff support for vaccine questions.
  
• Specialty Clinic RN:
  Help coordinate specialty clinic, including facilitating appropriate patients, follow up patients, pre-visit or post-visit testing as requested, and coordination with the patient’s PCP team.
  
• Coordinate, plan and prepare with Specialty Clinic staff as needed in arranging clinic dates and CME presentations for KANA staff.
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• Provide nursing care for patients during specialty clinic visits including rooming patients, preparing for and helping with procedures, education, facilitating discharge and follow up.
  
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques.

Qualifications

Completion of a two (2) to four (4) year Nursing program. Minimum one (1) year nursing experience preferred. Bachelor’s degree (BSN) desired but not required.

Work Schedule

KANA’s standard work schedule is 37.5 working hours per week, consisting of 7.5 paid working hours per day plus a one-hour unpaid lunch break (8.5 hours on site per day).

Our Values

KANA’s work is guided by Courtesy, Caring, Respect, Sharing, and Pride. We seek leaders who embody these values in how they lead teams, steward resources, and serve the community.

Life In Kodiak

Located on beautiful Kodiak Island, this role offers the opportunity to build meaningful community connections while experiencing Alaska’s unique coastal lifestyle, outdoor recreation, and close-knit community.