Nurse Clinician- Eating Disorder Clinic

Children's Wisconsin•Milwaukee, WI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Children’s Wisconsin is seeking a Nurse Clinician for a newly created role within their Eating Disorder Treatment Clinic. This position will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including a dietitian, psychologist, and provider, to offer compassionate patient care, education, and care coordination. The role offers the opportunity to help shape the future of the position by defining and developing workflows and responsibilities as the clinic has not had a nurse previously. The Ambulatory Nurse Clinician promotes optimal wellness by promoting health maintenance, participating in the management of acute illness, managing the effects of chronic disease and disability across the continuum of care. This is accomplished through face to face or electronic interactions. Utilizing critical thinking and nursing process in caring for patients and caregivers with complex healthcare needs which are acquired through a process of integrating education, experiential knowledge and evidence-based guidelines. Acting as a partner, advocate, support and teacher to the patient and caregivers providing optimal management of the child's health care, and respecting their culture, values, diverse individual needs, health goals and treatment preferences. The Nurse Clinician facilitates continuity of care using the nursing process, inter-professional collaboration and care coordination activities to support the whole child by assessing and providing access to appropriate health care services and community resources across the care continuum.

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

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
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.

Responsibilities

Outpatient patient education
Coordinating referrals
Managing the in-basket
Providing ongoing patient support
Help define and develop workflows and responsibilities as the position evolves
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.
Provides care appropriate to patient population and as described in applicable policies and procedures.