Registered Nurse GI Clinic

The Clinical Nurse (CN) II provides Family-Centered Care as demonstrated by recognizing the patient, family and/or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs. Assumes active role in clinical education of patients, families and staff. Functions effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

Integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise for delivery of optimal health care. Uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and uses improvement methods to test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

The Digestive Health Institute (DHI) is primarily located on the Anschutz Campus in the Outpatient Pavilion. Our team provides comprehensive care to pediatric patients, managing a wide range of gastrointestinal conditions including procedures used to diagnose, monitor, and treat gastrointestinal diseases. The DHI consists of a multidisciplinary team of providers, nurses, pharmacists, medical assistants, dietitians, psychologists, social workers, and authorization and administrative assistants who work together to coordinate care with collaborative partners including surgeons, pathologists, or other specialty clinical services.

In addition, our team collaborates with community partners including PCP, homecare providers, laboratory, and outside infusion service centers. The DHI services a 7-state region and provides 2nd opinions and consultative services to patients and families nationally and internationally. Subspecialties within the DHI include Liver, Celiac, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Gastroesophageal Diseases, Neurogastromotility, Intestinal Rehabilitation, Pancreatic Disease, Aerodigestive Disease, and Core Gastrointestinal (GI) Diseases.

In addition, our providers attend other subspeciality clinics to manage the gastrointestinal components of care.

An ambulatory DHI nurse provides comprehensive care to patients and families throughout the care continuum. Within this role nurses' interface with multidisciplinary teams to promote excellence in care, education, advocacy for patients and families using evidence-based practice. Nurses are encouraged to promote and share clinical practice projects through abstract submission, presentation, and publications at local and national conferences to promote gastrointestinal nursing science.

• Family-Centered Care:
  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.
  • Delivers patient and family centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence based care. Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
  • Care is guided by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care.
  • Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team. Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Teamwork &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
  • Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
  • Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
  • Collaborates with team members in shared decision making.
• Evidence Based Practice:
  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
  • Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
  • Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
  • Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and…