Job Description
It's more than a career, it's a calling
WI-Agnesian Health Plaza Bldg A
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Highlights:
We are looking for a experience nurse to work very closely with both the clinic and hospital teams in ensuring that patients surgical care journey is seamless.
This includes; teaching a total joint class to patients, preparing for total joint surgeries, reaching out to these patients by phone after they go home, as well as rounding on them if they stay in the hospital to ensure clear understanding of steps in the process and peri operative directions and follow up. Provides input with patient education materials/booklets, coordinates communication across teams and departments with focus on ensuring positive and excellent patient experience and clinical outcomes.
Job Summary:
Delivers professional nursing care in the ambulatory setting to patients as identified for the assigned clinical program. Performs the primary functions of a Registered Nurse within a department, inclusive of assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of all assigned patients. Works with professionals who provide services with the intention of building capacity and maintaining quality of services.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Serves as a liaison for management staff, administration, providers, managed care companies, community organizations, and other customers.
Monitors and maintains regular contact with patients in the caseload as identified by physicians. Performs pre-visit chart reviews on the caseload patients. Identifies labs to be done, prescriptions to be refilled, consultations that may be due, etc. and ascertains that all appropriate preventive care is being performed.
Coordinates outreach processes for the patients with care opportunities identified by a provider, including visits, consults, lab, x-rays, ancillary services, and appropriate community resources.
Serves as point of contact for all patients within the service to support discharge plan; medication review and schedule follow up appointments with the provider.
Provides referral/support for follow-up care for patients who are uninsured or underinsured.
Utilizes the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation in all patient encounters.
Educates patients about self-management tasks they can undertake to gain greater control of their health status and coordinates with physician and care team workflows to involve the patients in activities to improve their health. Establishes working relationships teaching protocols for patient education, family counseling, and community information.
Works with the practice leadership to implement evidence-based practice guidelines as outlined by clinic policies and providers.
Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
EXPERIENCE
Two years' registered nurse experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
Constant standing and walking.
Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
Occasional driving.
Rare crawling and running.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
State of Work Location: Missouri
Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
Or
Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
Or
Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
Or
Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)
Job Type:
Employee
Department:
7310010166 Ortho MOB
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Benefits:
SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.
Paid Parental Leave :
we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
Flexible Payment Options:
our voluntary benefit offered through Daily Pay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
Upfront Tuition Coverage
: we provide upfront tuition coverage through Flex Path Funded for eligible team members.
SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status
,
or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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