Registered Nurse (RN) - Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic - Days

About the role

The Ambulatory Divisional Registered Nurse supports clinical care across multiple outpatient locations, collaborating with Ambulatory Leadership, Division Chair, Medical Director, and interdisciplinary teams to develop and manage processes for safe, timely ambulatory care.

Responsibilities

• Follows physician/licensed provider orders within the boundaries of the Nurse Practice Act, licensure, and established standards, policies, and practice guidelines.
• Triage patient calls and in-basket messages in accordance with ambulatory and division-specific standards.
• Facilitates training as needed to improve the specialty knowledge base across all ambulatory clinic locations.
• Pairs with care teams to complete chart preparation for return visits, reviews records, ensures outside records are available, and prepares charts for patient visits.
• Provides disease and procedure-specific education to patients in clinic settings.
• Creates educational materials to support commonly encountered topics within the division.
• May assist providers during clinical procedures across the division.
• Pairs with providers, Assistant Clinical Managers, Program Coordinators, and Nurse Navigators to ensure continuity of care across clinic sites for division patients with expertise in service, preoperative, postoperative, and medical management to specific patient populations.
• Performs multi-site nursing visits as directed by providers to include education, treatments, or assessments.
• Serves as a nursing clinical role model and division subject matter expert for managing ambulatory patients across multiple sites.
• Partners with Assistant Clinical Managers and clinic nursing staff to aid providers in obtaining clinic testing and treatment.
• Consistently monitors patient satisfaction and customer feedback, taking prompt action on issues to strive for service excellence.
• Supports prior authorization requirements specific to emergent/same-day prior authorizations and denial appeals.
• Seeks collaborative relationships that can lead to effective partnerships in research, evidence-based practice, or process improvement.
• Contributes to revising and developing clinical practice and/or nursing care guidelines for specific patient populations using current best evidence and shares the synthesis of current best evidence at the department/division level.
• Anticipates needs to provide quality and efficient care for patients.
• Maintains professional growth and development in specialty through ongoing process of formal and informal education and training.
• Performs other duties as assigned and/or participates in special projects in order to support the mission of VCUHS and the division.

Requirements

• Licensure/Certification Required: Current Registered Nurse license, BLS Certification.
• Licensure/Certification Preferred: Nursing specialty board certification preferred.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited program. Master’s degree in nursing from an accredited program is preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of nursing experience required. 1-2 years preferred experience in the designated pediatric or adult division.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and time management skills.
• Ability to set priorities, make timely decisions, and meet multiple deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a large complex, fast-paced environment.

Skills

• Strong communication and time management skills.
• Ability to set priorities, make timely decisions, and meet multiple deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a large complex, fast-paced environment.

Benefits

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Pay

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