- Where
- Milwaukee, WI · Forest Home Clinic · New Berlin Clinic · Delafield Clinic
- Level
- Mid
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We are seeking a compassionate, organized, and motivated Registered Nurse to join our Pediatric Neuromuscular and Multidisciplinary Muscular Dystrophy Clinic within our Neurosciences Team. This unique role combines clinical nursing care, program coordination, and family support to help children and adolescents with neuromuscular disorders receive comprehensive, high-quality care throughout their healthcare journey. You will support initiatives that strengthen care coordination and transition readiness and assist the clinic coordinator with highly specialized prior authorizations for multimillion-dollar gene therapies. This individual is excited to contribute to program growth and development while ensuring an exceptional patient and family experience.
Work Location: Children's Main Campus and must be available to travel to all closer to home sites in addition to main campus-MEQ, DEL, NBC, FH a couple times a month . This role has an opportunity to work from home depending on provider/clinic needs. This role is 8am-4:30pm
Job Summary
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.
- Accountable for and coordinates the delivery of care within the Neuromuscular and Muscular Dystrophy Clinic 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 with assisting the transition to adult healthcare services.
- 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…