Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Ambulatory Care Nurse - OB/GYN (RN)

FLSA Category: Exempt

Reports To: Ambulatory Care Nurse Manager

Date Issued: August 2025, September 2025

Job Summary:

Functions as a clinical resource to ensure that medical services—including OB/GYN care—are delivered in a safe and efficient manner, addressing patient needs as expeditiously as possible. The RN utilizes the nursing process to assess, diagnose, implement, and evaluate care of patients with the assistance of the LPN. The RN is an integral part of the health care team that collaborates with other health team members and the center manager to facilitate patient care. The Ambulatory Care Nurse OB/GYN (RN) also ensures ancillary services are provided as needed, including support for OB/GYN procedures and screenings.

Essential Functions:

1. Serves as a clinical team leader and resource, providing input on day-to-day clinical activities, including OB/GYN services, in collaboration with the center manager.
2. Provides recommendations to the center manager for administrative and corrective actions of Clinical Medical Assistants.
3. Provides clinical training to medical assistants, including OB/GYN-specific competencies, and supervises competency evaluations.
4. Provides direct nursing care to patients, including assessments, nursing procedures (e.g., injections, pelvic exam assistance), and support during OB/GYN procedures.
5. Provides in-person and telephone triage for patients seeking medical advice, including OB/GYN-related concerns. 
6. Provides health teaching and counseling to patients and families, including communication of test results, medication changes, and OB/GYN education.

1. Assesses patient requests for same-day services and works with Providers and Center Manager to ensure that patient needs—including OB/GYN visits—are addressed appropriately.
2. Expedites patient flow through implementation of standing orders or policies for medication refills, referrals, immunizations, and OB/GYN screenings. Ensures clinical medical assistants follow standing order protocols appropriately.
3. Participates in the immunization process, including inventory and record keeping. Ensures vaccines are stored properly and educates staff on proper technique and current recommendations.
4. Oversees laboratory services, including review of quality control, inventory, and specimen collection, including OB/GYN-related labs (e.g., Pap smears, STI testing).
5. Participates in the maintenance of medication and medical supply inventory, including OB/GYN-specific supplies and monthly expiration checks.
6. Assists with ongoing clinical education, including OB/GYN competencies, consistent with GBMS needs, goals, and objectives.
7. Demonstrates proficiency in the use of the EMR and serves as a clinical resource, including documentation of OB/GYN visits and procedures.

Nonessential Functions:

1. Participates in team/staff meetings; attends in service meetings and applicable workshops.
2. Performs other duties as assigned.

Core Values: Quality Respect , Teamwork Equity, Passion, Integrity, Love

Minimum Qualifications

1. Current Registered Nursing License in the State of Maryland or compact state required.
2. Associate Degree in Nursing or a practical nursing diploma with relevant experience required. Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or an equivalent field of study preferred.
3. Current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (CPR) required.
4. Bilingual is a plus!
5. OB/GYN experience

Substitutions - None

Core Competencies Needed

Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully, develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving situations; uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.

Communication Skills - Listen and verbally in order to solve problems and provide information and direction, ensuring the experience is a positive one. Record issues and resolutions to maintain accurate records and data for further analysis by management.

Analytical Skills - The ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach. Possess creative thinking, learning, systems thinking and problem solving. Must be effective at defining and solving problems in order to ensure that the real, underlying challenge is understood and that solutions actually address it.

Healthcare Systems - Knowledge of healthcare and medical terminology.

Risk Management/Compliance - Confidentiality principles and laws, maintain compliance with government contractual mandates.

Work Environment

This job operates in an outpatient office environment.

Physical and Mental Demands

1. Ability to cope with stress.
2. The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the center
3. Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
4. The person in this position frequently communicates with patients and/or employees. Must be able to summarize and exchange accurate information.
5. Must be able to lift or catch patient weighing more than 50 pounds in the event of emergency.
6. Performs with frequent interruption or distractions.
7. Adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
8. Ability to judge distances and spatial relationships to perceive objects where and as they actually are.
9. Cognitive ability to analyze, count, summarize and synthesize information from multiple sources.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret written or verbal documents and instructions. Ability to speak effectively to patients, employees and/or stakeholders of the organization.

Travel

Must be able to drive between Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc. locations.

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