Nurse Clinician - Dermatology

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• Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8a-5p *This role does allow for up to 2 work from home days per month; those are scheduled with the supervisor based on staffing.

Location

• Milwaukee campus and this role will support our Mequon regional location (1x/wk). Must be able to travel to Mequon.
• Job
• Summary: This role combines both direct patient care and triage responsibilities. Nurses rotate between these functions on a structured schedule. When supporting regional locations, the focus is primarily on direct care and provider support. Dermatology-specific responsibilities may include assisting with procedures such as biopsies, laser treatments, cryotherapy, and phototherapy; providing injection education for dermatology medications that patients or families administer at home; administering injections; collecting laboratory specimens (including urine samples and swabs); and initiating prior authorizations for medications. The Ambulatory Nurse Clinician promotes optimal wellness by promoting health maintenance, participating in the management of acute illness, managing the effects of chronic disease and disability across the continuum of care. This is accomplished through face to face or electronic interactions. Utilizing critical thinking and nursing process in caring for patients and caregivers with complex healthcare needs which are acquired through a process of integrating education, experiential knowledge and evidence-based guidelines. Acting as a partner, advocate, support and teacher to the patient and caregivers providing optimal management of the child's health care, and respecting their culture, values, diverse individual needs, health goals and treatment preferences. The Nurse Clinician facilitates continuity of care using the nursing process, inter-professional collaboration and care coordination activities to support the whole child by assessing and providing access to appropriate health care services and community resources across the care continuum. Essential Functions - Accountable for and coordinates the delivery of care within the practice setting and across health care settings to maintain continuity of care to create a compassionate therapeutic environment through the assessment of the physical, functional and psychosocial well-being of the patient and family. - Uses clinical reasoning to develop, implement and evaluate a plan of care that is collaborative and addresses the needs of the patient and caregivers resulting in optimal patient outcomes and reducing risk factors. - Utilizes an inter-professional approach to communicate, educate and engage patients, caregivers, and providers in implementing the plan of care across care settings to achieve common goals, individualized interventions and optimal positive clinical outcomes and disease management. - Employs educational strategies utilizing health teaching and health-promotion to include but not limited to, learning needs, abilities, readiness, cultural and spiritual, language preferences and barriers to learning that promote staff, individual, family, community and population health and safety and patient self-efficacy to promote, maintain, or restore health. - Communicates effectively using health literacy strategies and a variety of formats, tools, approaches and technologies to build professional relationships and deliver care across the continuum. - Contributes to the development and application of clinical practice guidelines, policies and procedures by comparing, contrasting and evaluating possible alternatives using an evidence based format and continuous quality improvement to deliver quality nursing care and enhance the patient/caregiver experience. - Advocates from perspective of patient/caregiver and works toward resolution of complex ethical issues and raises ethical questions and concerns with the interdisciplinary team to identify inequities in care and works to resolve them.