Clinic Lead Nurse I - MOHS Surgery - MUSCP

About the role

Join one of the nation’s leading academic health systems in a highly specialized and rewarding nursing leadership role. The Clinic Lead Nurse I serves as a key clinical leader within MUSC’s nationally recognized Mohs Surgery program, combining hands-on patient care with meaningful leadership responsibilities in a collaborative, team-oriented environment. This position offers the unique opportunity to practice at the top of your nursing license while working alongside expert surgeons, histotechnologists, and an experienced, high-performing nursing team dedicated to delivering exceptional patient outcomes. As a frontline leader, you will help shape patient experience, support team engagement and professional development, and contribute to the continued success of a respected Mohs Surgery practice. In addition to providing direct patient care, including surgical assisting, circulating, and independent nurse-led wound care and follow-up visits, you will play an integral role in maintaining efficient clinic operations, promoting quality and safety initiatives, and fostering a positive and supportive workplace culture.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Practice Assessment Planning, Implementation and Evaluation (20%): Utilize the nursing process to facilitate age-appropriate patient care coordination activities based on individual patient needs in a safe environment. Success criteria: assess and interpret findings for vital signs and other required body measurements; assess and document findings from positive required screenings completed for the individual patient population; evaluate and document patients’ responses to plan of care, pain, medication usage, follow-up tests, procedures, and treatments; coordinate care with interdisciplinary team members; demonstrate knowledge of hospital policies, procedures, nursing standards, and legal issues in areas of specialty; administer medicine to patients and adheres to rules, regulations and policies related to medication administration and documentation; adhere to policy for clinic specific medication issues: high alert, pain reassessment, standing orders, med labeling, given in clinic medications and food/drug interactions education; follow unit and organizational policies and procedures to complete indicated clinical procedures; assist in the development of an action plan to increase compliance and implement actions to correct identified deficiencies; identifies and participates in opportunities to share skills, knowledge, and strategies for patient care and system improvement with colleagues and other healthcare providers.
• Patient Education and Teaching (10%): Provide patient instruction that results in increased understanding and improved outcomes. Success criteria: document teaching in EMR following policy; participate in updating clinic specific education materials; provide and document education specific to the reason for visit/patient problem, including given in clinic medications; provide education and teaching to patients and families for medications and medication changes.
• Coordination of Care (20%): Coordinate continuation of plan of care utilizing all methods of communication between patient and clinic. Success criteria: adhere to unit protocols used for phone triage; utilize EMR phone templates to document patient calls, plan of care, prescription refills and response to call; remain within scope of practice and appropriately refer call to provider for response or signature; maintain efficiency with call response time and request for medication refills and other patient requests; monitor in basket messaging and communicate all relevant information required to coordinate care; complete and coordinate all relevant tests and procedures required for individual clinic specialties.
• Demonstrate a commitment to quality patient care, environment, and professional development (20