Nurse Clinician-Genetics

Children's Wisconsin • Milwaukee, WI

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Join Children's Wisconsin's Genetics team as a Nurse Clinician and play a vital role in delivering specialized therapies to children with complex genetic conditions. This unique position combines hands-on patient care with care coordination, overseeing the full treatment journey, including prior authorizations, pre-infusion testing, IV infusion administration, patient and family education, and ongoing monitoring. Working alongside a collaborative Genetics team and supported by a dedicated Medical Assistant, you'll help provide seamless, compassionate, and family-centered care that makes a meaningful difference in the lives of children and their families.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree in Nursing required
• 2+ years Licensed nursing experience required
• BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/National Safety Council required
• License RN-Registered Nurse (30) - State of Wisconsin required
• License RN-Registered Nurse (TN Compact) - State of Tennessee required
• Demonstrate proficient pediatric assessment skills, utilizing a developmental approach to meet the individual needs of the neonatal, infant, toddler, pre-school, school age and adolescent 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.
• Requires effective and collaborative interpersonal and communication skills for discussing sensitive issues with patients and caregivers.
• The ability to represent the organization and serve consumers in a professional manner and promote a positive image of the organization and its services.
• Expertise in active listening and therapeutic communication.
• Requires critical reasoning and astute clinical judgment to expedite appropriate care and treatment.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
• 2+ years Pediatric nursing experience preferred
• Experience managing patients with chronic and complex family and health needs preferred

Responsibilities

• Accountable for and coordinates the delivery of care within the practice setting and across health care settings to maintain continuity of care to create a compassionate therapeutic environment through the assessment of the physical, functional and psychosocial well-being of the patient and family.
• 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 reducing 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 utilizing health teaching and health-promotion to include but not limited to, 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 perspective of patient/caregiver and works toward resolution of complex ethical issues and raises 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 to include telephone triage and other telecommunications technologies to remove time and distance barriers for the delivery of nursing care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree