Position Details
Department: PCMG-MAIN | General Pediatrics
Location: Phoenix
Shift: Mon-Fri, Days, 8am-5pm
Category: Nursing
Posting #: 1026945
Employee Type: Full-Time
Position Summary
Posting Note: Registered Nurse - Ambulatory Pediatrics (Complex Care)
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Setting: Ambulatory Pediatric Clinic
Role Summary
Join a collaborative ambulatory pediatrics team caring for children and adolescents with primary care and complex medical needs, including chronic and technology-dependent conditions. This role focuses primarily on telephone triage and care coordination, with some in-clinic support.
____
Key Responsibilities
specimen taking
not much direct care
o Patient/family education
o Care of medical devices (e.g., trachs, feeding tubes, G-tubes)
o Specimen collection
____
Qualifications
o Ambulatory preferred; inpatient acceptable
____
Ideal Candidate
This position, in collaboration with the healthcare team, patient, and family, coordinates and promotes patient health utilizing evidence-based practice in the delivery of professional nursing care across the care continuum. This position advocates for the patient and family adhering to nursing and medical plans of care, regulatory standards, and organizational values.
Position Duties
Utilizes multiple platforms to complete a nursing assessment of patients and their families consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors. Synthesizes and analyzes data to determine nursing diagnoses, prioritize needs, and develop a nursing plan of care.
Implements plans of care in accordance with regulatory and organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Provides health education related to health promotion and the management of acute and chronic health conditions including skills required to maintain and restore health.
Coordinates care and manages care transitions within the organization and the community, working collaboratively with the healthcare team, patient, and family to promote positive outcomes and prevent complications.
Advocates for patients and families, offering support and guidance related to navigating ambulatory services and processes, resource management, and community-based services. Partners with patients and families to establish realistic goals and expectations.
Continually evaluates patient understanding and response to the plan of care. Shares observations and assessment outcomes with healthcare team, patient, and family to ensure timely communication and understanding of health status, progress, and ongoing needs. Modifies nursing diagnoses and plan of care based on re-evaluation. Documents in the medical record.
Facilitates the delivery of safe patient care, monitoring quality and regulatory indicators, and working with leaders to identify process improvement opportunities.
Supervises patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency. Provides timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team members performance level, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.
Contributes to the team effort by accomplishing required activities within establish parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable medication, storage, and documentation standards, regulations, and requirement.
Fosters a positive learning environment by modeling best practices and patient-centered care while providing guidance, training, and support to students and new employees through mentorship, clinical instruction, and knowledge sharing.
Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.