Registered Nurse (RN) Lead - Clinic

Advocate Health • Town of Humboldt, WI

8d • $38 - $57 • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) Lead oversees day-to-day patient care operations, including staffing, workflow, equipment, and supplies. The role supports the supervisor in evaluating and adjusting care and services provided by clinical and clinical support staff, serves as an expert clinical and department resource, and may provide work direction or assist with patient care flow. The position supports primary care at the Aurora Baycare Medical Center campus and the Denmark, Bay Settlement, and Sturgeon Bay clinics. The schedule is 40 hours per week, with variable daytime hours between 6:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The RN Lead promotes care management and quality initiatives, helps establish departmental quality standards, monitors care delivery, and addresses problems. The role maintains knowledge of applicable policies, procedures, regulatory and compliance requirements, and scope-of-practice guidelines; supports staff compliance; and promotes safety and infection control.

Using the nursing process, the RN Lead provides ongoing patient care, recognizes changes in patient status, determines care priorities, and provides protocol-based triage and consultation. Clinical duties include preparing and rooming patients, documenting health information, performing laboratory procedures and advanced clinical skills within demonstrated competency and under clinical supervision, assisting providers with procedures and surgeries, administering medications, and managing IV therapy. The role also provides patient education and counseling and coordinates follow-up requests, refills, appointments, referrals, and communication with providers.

The position requires the knowledge and skills to provide age-appropriate care across the lifespan, including assessing patient information and identifying age-specific care needs in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification from the American Heart Association, to be obtained within 6 months unless the department leader determines it is not required.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing.
• Typically, 5 years of nursing experience, including experience precepting and acting as a nursing resource.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to build rapport and maintain positive, professional relationships with patients, staff, and physicians.
• Ability to make critical, independent decisions effectively.
• Excellent organization, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including delegation, organization, prioritization, and building team rapport.
• Proficient computer skills, including keyboarding, navigating a Windows operating system, using electronic mail, and using electronic medical record systems.
• Ability to meet the physical requirements of the job, including lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and transferring patients as specified in the posting.
• Functional speech, vision, hearing, and touch, with the ability to use fine-hand manipulation skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily patient care operations, including staffing, workflow, equipment, and supplies.
• Assist the supervisor in evaluating and adjusting care and services provided by clinical and clinical support staff.
• Act as an expert clinical and departmental resource; provide work direction or assist with patient care flow as needed.
• Promote and implement care management and quality initiatives; help establish quality standards, monitor care delivery, and address problems.
• Maintain knowledge of policies, procedures, regulatory and compliance requirements, and scope-of-practice guidelines, and assist with staff compliance.
• Promote safety and infection control standards for patients, visitors, and staff.
• Use the nursing process to assess, plan, intervene, and evaluate ongoing patient care; recognize changes in patient status and prioritize care.
• Provide triage and consultation to patients and their families or significant others according to protocols and organizational guidelines.
• Prepare and room patients for examinations, obtain vital signs, and document or update pertinent health information.
• Perform laboratory procedures and advanced clinical tasks within demonstrated competency and under clinical supervision.
• Assist physicians and other providers with procedures and surgeries.
• Administer medications under provider orders, initiate, maintain, and discontinue IV therapy, and mix medications according to protocols.
• Assess and provide patient education and counseling on treatments, tasks, skills, self-care, health promotion, and prevention.
• Follow through on procedure and test requests, prescription refills, appointment changes, and referrals; refer questions to providers and relay information to patients as directed.
• Provide care appropriate to patients' ages and developmental needs in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Paid time off programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
• Educational Assistance Program.
• Premium pay, including shift and on-call pay, where applicable.
• Incentive pay for select positions.
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior