Nurse Clinician Ambulatory, 24 hours/week, Appleton

About the role

The Ambulatory Nurse Clinician at Children’s Wisconsin promotes optimal wellness by managing health maintenance, acute illness, and chronic disease across the continuum of care. This role involves face-to-face and electronic interactions, utilizing critical thinking and the nursing process to care for patients and caregivers with complex healthcare needs.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for and coordinates the delivery of care within the practice setting and across health care settings to maintain continuity of care.
• 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 reduced 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 to include 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 deliver quality nursing care and enhance the patient/caregiver experience.
• Advocates from the perspective of the patient/caregiver and works toward resolving complex ethical issues, raising ethical questions and concerns with the interdisciplinary team to identify inequities in care, and works to resolve them.
• Through various telehealth practices, provides effective management and coordination of care and services, including telephone triage and other telecommunications technologies, to remove time and distance barriers for the delivery of nursing care.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree in Nursing required, Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred.
• 2+ years licensed nursing experience required.
• 2+ years pediatric nursing experience preferred.
• Experience managing patients with chronic and complex family and health needs preferred.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficient pediatric assessment skills, utilizing a developmental approach to meet the individual needs of the neonatal, infant, toddler, pre-school, school age, and or young adult patient.
• Ability to work with patients who have intellectual and physical disabilities in a developmentally appropriate manner.
• Proficiency with the use of computers and an electronic medical record.
• Independent judgment and analytical ability to problem solve, make decisions, and formulate reports.
• Effective and collaborative interpersonal and communication skills for discussing sensitive issues with patients and caregivers.
• Expertise in active listening and therapeutic communication.
• Critical reasoning and astute clinical judgment to expedite appropriate care and treatment.

Skills

• Knowledge of pediatric assessment skills and developmental approaches.
• Proficiency with electronic medical records and computer systems.
• Interpersonal and communication skills, including active listening and therapeutic communication.
• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Collaborative and inter-professional working skills.

Benefits

Children’s Wisconsin offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more.

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

This position will likely work Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.