Nurse Clinician - Gastroenterology

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Join our Pediatric Gastroenterology team as a Nurse Clinician and play a vital role in coordinating care, providing patient education, and supporting children with complex GI conditions. Make a difference through both direct patient care and meaningful family partnerships.

Hours/Days : Full Time

Location: Main Campus

This RN position provides a combination of direct patient care and indirect care coordination support within the Gastroenterology ambulatory clinic. The nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, and delivering care for children with chronic and complex GI conditions through both in-person and electronic interactions, including clinic support, patient education, complex teaching, procedural coordination, nursing assessments, and interventions such as G-tube care and medication administration. In addition, the RN serves as a key care coordinator by managing phone triage and voicemail messages, supporting prior authorizations, coordinating follow-up care, assisting with medication and supply needs, and collaborating with providers, medical assistants, and community resources to ensure continuity of care.

Job Summary

The Ambulatory Nurse Clinician promotes optimal wellness by promoting health maintenance, participating in the management of acute illness, managing the effects of chronic disease and disability across the continuum of care. This is accomplished through face to face or electronic interactions. Utilizing critical thinking and nursing process in caring for patients and caregivers with complex healthcare needs which are acquired through a process of integrating education, experiential knowledge and evidence-based guidelines. Acting as a partner, advocate, support and teacher to the patient and caregivers providing optimal management of the child's health care, and respecting their culture, values, diverse individual needs, health goals and treatment preferences. The Nurse Clinician facilitates continuity of care using the nursing process, inter-professional collaboration and care coordination activities to support the whole child by assessing and providing access to appropriate health care services and community resources across the care continuum.

Essential Functions - Accountable for and coordinates the delivery of care within the practice setting and across health care settings to maintain continuity of care to create a compassionate therapeutic environment through the assessment of the physical, functional and psychosocial well-being of the patient and family.

• Uses clinical reasoning to develop, implement and evaluate a plan of care that is collaborative and addresses the needs of the patient and caregivers resulting in optimal patient outcomes and reducing risk factors.
• Utilizes an inter-professional approach to communicate, educate and engage patients, caregivers, and providers in implementing the plan of care across care settings to achieve common goals, individualized interventions and optimal positive clinical outcomes and disease management.
• Employs educational strategies utilizing health teaching and health-promotion to include but not limited to, learning needs, abilities, readiness, cultural and spiritual, language preferences and barriers to learning that promote staff, individual, family, community and population health and safety and patient self-efficacy to promote, maintain, or restore health.
• Communicates effectively using health literacy strategies and a variety of formats, tools, approaches and technologies to build professional relationships and deliver care across the continuum.
• Contributes to the development and application of clinical practice guidelines, policies and procedures by comparing, contrasting and evaluating possible alternatives using an evidence based format and continuous quality improvement to deliver quality nursing care and enhance the patient/caregiver experience.
• Advocates from perspective of patient/caregiver and works toward resolution of complex ethical issues and raises ethical questions and concerns with the interdisciplinary team to identify inequities in care and works to resolve them.
• Through various telehealth practices provides effective management and coordination of care and services to include telephone triage and other telecommunications technologies to remove time and distance barriers for the delivery of nursing care.

Education

• Associate's Degree in Nursing required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred

Experience

• 2+ years Licensed nursing experience required
• 2+ years Pediatric nursing experience preferred
• Experience managing patients with chronic and complex family and health needs preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrate proficient pediatric assessment skills, utilizing a developmental approach to meet the individual needs of the neonatal, infant, toddler, pre-school, school age and adolescent and or young adult patient.
• Ability to work with patients who have intellectual and physical disabilities in a developmentally appropriate manner.
• Proficiency with the use of computers and an electronic medical record.
• Independent judgment and analytical ability to problem solve, make decisions and formulate reports.
• Requires effective and collaborative interpersonal and communication skills for discussing sensitive issues with patients and caregivers.
• The ability to represent the organization and serve consumers in a professional manner and promote a positive image of the organization and its services.
• Expertise in active listening and therapeutic communication.
• Requires critical reasoning and astute clinical judgment to expedite appropriate care and treatment.

Licenses and Certifications

• BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/National Safety Council required
• + one of the following: - N/A
• License RN-Registered Nurse (30) - State of Wisconsin

Patient Care Responsibility

• Provides care appropriate to patient population and as described in applicable policies and procedures.

Required for All Jobs

• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be requested in the performance of this job.
• Employment is at-will. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise.

Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.

Certifications/Licenses:

+ one of the following: - N/A, BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/National Safety Council, License RN-Registered Nurse (30) - State of Wisconsin, License RN-Registered Nurse (TN Compact) - State of Tennessee