Clinic Registered Nurse - Palliative Care

Description

Clinic Registered Nurse - Palliative Care40 hours per week

        

Come join our team! Crossing Rivers Health provides competitive pay along with an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision; life insurance, short term disability, paid time off, a retirement plan w/company match, and more!

Our core values are practiced and exhibited throughout the organization in our actions and in services provided.Joy : Unity : Integrity : Compassion : Excellence

Position Summary

The Palliative Care Nurse works in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team to deliver Palliative Care for patients and families who are dealing with serious chronic illness. The Palliative Nurse will help educate patients and their families with a focus on improving symptom management as well as increasing knowledge of medical options and how they impact quality of life.

• Responsible for utilizing the professional nursing process to provide individualized nursing care to patients across the lifespan in an ambulatory setting. Ambulatory nursing is characterized by the efficient, focused assessment of patients. 
• Present a proactive role within the clinic working with Nursing, Pharmacy, Care Coordinators, and other departments to provide Palliative Care services to patients and their families and implements guidelines that support the complex patient throughout the system.
• Care for patients and families in all phases of preventative care, health maintenance, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up as patients' transition through care settings.
• Act as a patient and family advocate and assist the patient and family in developing skills so that they can advocate for themselves while preserving and protecting patient and family autonomy, dignity and rights. 
• Responsible for the coordination of patient care, screenings, education, triage, and various other tasks within the RN scope of practice. 
• Collect, prioritize and synthesize available data to identify unique patient needs. 
• Assess cultural and age-specific considerations for appropriate care planning. Accurately document all nursing care and related services in the patient health record. 
• Actively participate in ongoing quality improvement activities. 
• Provide for safe patient transitions and hand offs through effective communication with patient, family and care providers.
• Provide for patient safety through the use of two patient identifiers, safe medication administration practices, and appropriate hand hygiene.
• Follow current National Patient Safety Goals. 
• Maintain current knowledge in nursing practice and participate in ongoing educational related activities. 
• Attend educational opportunities to learn specialty care procedures and clinic processes. 
• Must be able to provide education to patients via various methods. 
• Maintain current nursing licensure as required. 
• Maintain compliance with departmental policies, procedures and clinic processes. 
• Help ensure compliance with regulatory or accreditation processes. 
• Other job duties and responsibilities as assigned to effectively meet the needs of the patients, the department, and the organization as a whole. 

   

Competency Statement(s)

• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly. 
• Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience. 
• Communication - The ability to get one's ideas across to others through oral of written means and to understand the ideas of others through effective listening skills. 
• Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers' needs while following company procedures.
• Empathetic - Ability to appreciate and be sensitive to the feelings of others. 
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task. 
• Relationship Building - Ability to effectively build relationships with customers and co-workers. 
• Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety. 
• Self-Motivated - Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one's ability using his or her own drive or initiative.  
• Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Requirements

  

Education

• Graduate from a Nursing program or Associate's Degree (two year college or technical school) Required, Field of Study: Nursing 
• Bachelor's Degree Preferred, Field of Study: Nursing

Experience

• 3-5 years Nursing experience in a clinic setting preferred.
• Palliative care experience preferred.
• Patient education experience preferred.

Computer Skills

• Proficient in basic computer skills.

Certifications & Licenses

• BLS
• Active Nursing License (RN) eligible to practice in the State of Wisconsin