Registered NURSE; Ambulatory Care Services- South Main Ortho Clinic: Orthopedics

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

• Provide nursing care to the adult and adolescent orthopedic population
• Tele-health medicine to include, but are not limited to, triage calls from patients, families, clinicians, and other healthcare team members.
• Pre-operative teaching, counseling, and coordinating care for orthopedic surgical procedures.
• Post-operative telephone consultations.
• Assist with a variety of procedures and tasks, clinical, administrative, or otherwise, to maintain patient flow in clinic and support assistive staff as needed including but not limited to wound and cast assessment.
• Candidate must be able to perform duties independently, be highly motivated and flexible in order to address the needs of patients, families and members of the health care team.
• To provide clinical support for the South Main Ortho Clinic, as well as to the wider CMC group of privileged providers throughout UMH, regardless of location of service or specialty.

Expectations of the Position

• Demonstrated knowledge and skills providing patient and family education, self-management and coaching related to health promotion of the patient and family
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills through use of the nursing process, excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to set priorities
• Demonstrated adaptability to changing needs and priorities based on unit, department, and institutional goals/objectives
• Demonstrated customer service, interpersonal communication skills, and ability to build respectful relationships within and between units and individuals
• Exhibits high standards of personal and professional conduct as measured by interviews, references, and performance evaluations
• Demonstrated accountability and dependability including good attendance and punctuality as evidenced by references and evaluations

• Current license to practice nursing in the State of Michigan (RN).
• Three (3) years (within the last five (5) years) of Adult orthopedic surgical RN experience.

• Surgical ambulatory care experience
• Experience with care coordination and managing complex patient populations.
• Recent (in the past 3 years) tele-health management skills
• BSN
• Demonstrated excellence in communication skills; both verbal and written.
• Demonstrated accountability to Departmental requirements
• Demonstrated customer service skills and ability with conflict management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team, prioritize duties, multi-task and problem solve with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated flexibility in accepting changing clinical assignments on short notice.
• Proficiency in computer and keyboarding skills, using electronic medical record, along with Microsoft Office and calendaring

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan medical is comprised of over 26,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems.

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