Clinical Nurse - General Peds Clinic ! General Pediatrics Phoenix Note Quick

Department: PCMG-MAIN | General Pediatrics

Location:

Phoenix

Shift: Mon-Fri, (Days Vary), Days, 8am-5:30pm

Category:
Nursing

Posting #: 1067000

Employee Type:
Full-Time

Posting

Note:

Registered Nurse – Ambulatory Pediatrics (Complex Care)

Schedule:

Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:30 PM

Setting:
Ambulatory Pediatric Clinic

Role

Summary:

Join a collaborative ambulatory pediatrics team caring for children and adolescents with primary care and complex medical needs, including chronic and technology-dependent conditions. This role focuses primarily on telephone triage and care coordination, with some in-clinic support.

• Telephone triage and care coordination (approx. 90%)
• Coordinate care with multiple specialists, hospitals, and community resources
• Specimen taking (not much direct care)
• Support clinic visits: patient/family education
• Support clinic visits: care of medical devices (e.g., trachs, feeding tubes, G-tubes)
• Support clinic visits: specimen collection
• Partner with providers and interdisciplinary teams to support medically complex patients

• Active RN license
• 2+ years pediatric nursing experience (Ambulatory preferred; inpatient acceptable)
• Experience with medically complex or special-needs pediatric patients
• Comfortable managing life-sustaining devices

• Resourceful, organized, and solution-focused
• Confident communicator who collaborates across teams
• Strong clinical judgment in a fast-paced outpatient environment

This position, in collaboration with the healthcare team, patient, and family, coordinates and promotes patient health utilizing evidence-based practice in the delivery of professional nursing care across the care continuum. This position advocates for the patient and family adhering to nursing and medical plans of care, regulatory standards, and organizational values.

• Utilizes multiple platforms to complete a nursing assessment of patients and their families consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors. Synthesizes and analyzes data to determine nursing diagnoses, prioritize needs, and develop a nursing plan of care.
• Implements plans of care in accordance with regulatory and organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines. Provides health education related to health promotion and the management of acute and chronic health conditions including skills required to maintain and restore health. Coordinates care and manages care transitions within the organization and the community, working collaboratively with the healthcare team, patient, and family to promote positive outcomes and prevent complications.
  
  Advocates for patients and families, offering support and guidance related to navigating ambulatory services and processes, resource management, and community-based services. Partners with patients and families to establish realistic goals and expectations.
• Continually evaluates patient understanding and response to the plan of care. Shares observations and assessment outcomes with healthcare team, patient, and family to ensure timely communication and understanding of health status, progress, and ongoing needs. Modifies nursing diagnoses and plan of care based on re-evaluation. Documents in the medical record.
• Facilitates the delivery of safe patient care, monitoring quality and regulatory indicators, and working with leaders to identify process improvement opportunities. Supervises patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency. Provides timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team…