Nurse Clinician- Ambulatory - Appleton Clinic, Urology Specialty

Nurse Clinician‑Ambulatory – Appleton Clinic, Urology Specialty, 32 hours/week

Apply for the Nurse Clinician‑Ambulatory – Appleton Clinic, Urology Specialty, 32 hours/week role at Children's Wisconsin

At Children’s Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best. We are a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well‑being of children.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country.

Job Summary – Clinic RN – Urology

The Ambulatory Nurse Clinician promotes optimal wellness by health maintenance, participating in acute illness management, and managing chronic disease across the continuum of care. Utilizing critical thinking and the nursing process, the clinician cares for patients and caregivers with complex healthcare needs, integrating education, experiential knowledge, and evidence‑based guidelines.

Essential Functions

• Accountable for and coordinates the delivery of care within the practice setting and across health care settings to maintain continuity of care and 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, including health teaching and health promotion, to include 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.
• 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 the perspective of patient/caregiver and works toward resolution of complex ethical issues, raising ethical questions and concerns with the interdisciplinary team to identify inequities in care and resolve them.
• Through various telehealth practices provides effective management and coordination of care and services, including 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 neonatal, infant, toddler, pre‑school, school‑age, adolescent, and young adult patients.
• 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.
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