REGISTERED NURSE- West Ann Arbor Surgical Specialty

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care in the Surgical Specialty Clinics at the West Ann Arbor Health center.
• This position includes care of adult patients and includes but not limited to the urology and otolaryngology clinics and other surgical specialty care clinics:
• Assessment of patient needs and assist with medical issues related to health concerns.
• Manage prescription refill requests and secure patient messages.
• Adapts communication style to patients representing diverse personal, professional, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds.
• Uses excellent listening skills to receive detailed information.
• Utilize electronic protocol database to assess, educate and document all health information in an accurate and expedient fashion.
• Responsive to the needs of a clinic.
• Mets minimum established quality and productivity standards.
• Knowledge and appropriate use of internal and external resources.
• Collaborate with providers when necessary in providing advice or determining disposition for patient.
• Provide functional supervision to assistive personnel; collaborate with colleagues, other disciplines, and health care/community services to promote continuity of care.
• Telephone management, patient and family education, assistance with procedures, daily clinic operations management, functional supervision of assistive personnel and other responsibilities as requested.

Expectations

• Demonstrated critical thinking skills through use of the nursing process, excellent problem solving skills, and demonstrated ability to set priorities.
• Demonstrated customer service, interpersonal communication skills, and the ability to build respectful relationships within and between units and individuals.
• Demonstrated accountability and dependability including good attendance record with punctuality.
• Demonstrated adaptability to changing needs and priorities based on unit, department, and institutional goals/objectives.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills providing patient and family education and coaching related to chronic conditions.
• Proficiency with typing and electronic health record documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Current licensure to practice nursing in Michigan.
• Recent (within the last three (3) years) Ambulatory Care RN experience providing care to adult surgical patients.
• Minimum of 3 years of RN experience with adult surgical urology patient population.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Ambulatory Care Nursing.
• One year Procedural or surgical experience.
• Experience with ambulatory adult Urology and/or Uro Gynecology populations.
• Experience with urologic procedures e.g. urodynamics, SP tube changes, bladder instillations, Botox preparation, vasectomies, cystoscopies, etc.
• Experience with HHT, biopsy in otolaryngology.
• Telephone management experience.
• Emergency Department experience.
• Ambulatory Care Certification.
• Experience as a float nurse.
• BSN.
• Experience as a charge nurse or equivalent management skills.
• Proficiency with typing and electronic health record documentation.
• Bilingual.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings and immediate vesting.
• Generous Paid Time Off Allowances.
• Robust Tuition and Certification support programs.
• Large offering of no cost CEs and professional development for advancement.

Pay

• Nursing at Michigan offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits!
• Hourly range for Registered Nurses $41.78-$64.81/ hour.
• Evening Shift Differential-$3.00 / hour.
• Night Shift Differential- $4.00 / hour.
• Day Shift Weekend Differential- $2.90 / hour.
• Evening Shift Weekend Differential- $5.90 / hour.
• Night Shift Weekend Differential- $6.90 / hour.
• Charge Nurse Differential- $1.00 / hour.

Schedule

• Hours/Week: 40 hours per week, no weekends, no holidays.

Location

• West Ann Arbor Health Center Surgical Specialty clinics.

Union Affiliation

• This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Michigan Nurses Association and the U-M Professional Nurse Council union, which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.