Ambulatory Nurse II- Plastic Surgery

Summary:

We are seeking a compassionate, skilled, and highly organized Registered Nurse (RN) to join our growing plastic surgery practice. The ideal candidate will provide exceptional patient care throughout the surgical journey for both reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery patients, including pre-operative education, perioperative support, post-operative care, and ongoing patient communication. This position requires travel between two office locations and the ability to maintain consistent, high-quality care across both sites. The RN will primarily be based in Bryn Mawr office with occasional shifts at Perelman Center in Center City. 

Clinical Patient Care

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments and document findings accurately.
• Provide pre-operative and post-operative patient education and instructions.
• Assist physicians with in-office procedures and treatments.
• Monitor patient recovery and address post-surgical concerns.
• Perform wound care, dressing changes, suture removal, and other nursing procedures as needed.
• Administer medications and treatments in accordance with physician orders and state regulations.

• Triage patient phone calls, portal messages, and clinical concerns.

Responsibilities:

• Evidence Based Practice and Research: The nurse evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Professionalism: The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.
• Person and Family Centered Care: The nurse recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Leadership: The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
• Informatics/Technology: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Teamwork: The nurse effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization.

Qualifications:

• Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing (Required)
• BSN from and accredited school of nursing (Preferred)
• More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience (Required)

Licensures, Registrations, and Certifications:

• RN with State Licensure (Required)
• BLS from the AHA (Required)
• Certification in Specialty (Preferred)