Ambulatory Nurse II

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

About the Role

The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague possesses the knowledge, skills, and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice. This role independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients ranging in age from infancy to the elderly.

The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of assigned patients.

Responsibilities

• Evidence Based Practice and Research: Evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers, and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization, and advancing community outreach.
• Person and Family Centered Care: Recognizes the patient (or designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Leadership: Effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision-making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
• Informatics/Technology: Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making across the continuum.
• Teamwork: Effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to provide safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter- and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): Utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization.

Qualifications

• Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing (Required).
• More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience (Required).
• BSN from an accredited school of nursing (Preferred).

Licenses, Registrations, and Certifications

• A compact Multi-State License (Required). This role will be providing telehealth care to individuals residing outside Pennsylvania; the employee must obtain and maintain an appropriate multistate compact license or individual state licenses as required prior to service delivery.
• BLS through the AHA (Required).

Benefits

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.