Clinic Nurse - Diabetes Appleton​/Ashwaubenon

Job Summary

The Ambulatory Nurse Clinician promotes optimal wellness by promoting health maintenance, participating in the management of acute illness, and 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 the nursing process, the clinician provides care for patients and caregivers with complex healthcare needs, integrating education, experiential knowledge, and evidence‑based guidelines.

Acting as a partner, advocate, support, and teacher, the clinician facilitates continuity of care, supports whole‑child health, and collaborates with inter‑professional teams to assess and provide access to appropriate health‑care services and community resources.

This position will work in both Appleton and Ashwaubenon Clinics. Tentative schedule:
Week 1, Monday & Tuesday;
Week 2, Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday.

• 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 reduced 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 learning needs, abilities, readiness, cultural and spiritual, language preferences, and barriers to learning that promote staff, individuals, 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 evaluating possible alternatives using evidence‑based formats 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 work to 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.

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

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

• 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.
• Expertise in active listening and therapeutic…