Nurse Clinician-Orthopedics

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Delafield, WItime type:
Part time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R13111
* At Children’s Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.
** Children’s Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.
** 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. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day, please apply today.
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*** Children's Wisconsin has an opening for a Nurse Clinician in our Orthopedics Clinic. This position has a focus on neuromuscular conditions and multidisciplinary clinics. 80% direct patient care 20% triage. (4 days will be in clinic 1 day of indirect patient care a week.)
** Location**:
Greenfield Clinic and a secondary location of main campus
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* Work Schedule:

** 20 hours per week
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* What you will do:

** 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…