Role Overview: This position involves serving as an expanded nursing role within an interdisciplinary team to promote preventative care, conduct screenings, and coordinate disease management, providing primary clinical support to providers, patients, and families.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assess healthcare, educational, and psychosocial needs to develop individualized treatment plans.
- Investigate healthcare options, facilitate communication, and eliminate barriers to treatment.
- Educate patients and families on disease management, care coordination, and health programs.
- Implement clinical interventions based on risk and evidence-based guidelines.
- Collaborate with primary care providers to ensure guideline adherence, initiate and adjust therapies, and monitor patient progress.
- Coordinate diagnostic tests, maintain documentation in electronic health records, and ensure accurate data entry.
- Participate in professional development, review current literature, and incorporate effective teaching strategies.
- Assist in post-discharge care transitions and support program development and evaluation.
- Perform clinical procedures such as specimen collection, IV management, medication administration, and vaccines under provider direction.
Qualifications & Skills: Minimum 2 years of RN experience, graduate from a specialty nursing training program (Bachelor’s preferred), and strong clinical, educational, and communication skills.
Work Environment: Primarily in a clinical setting, with accountability to organizational policies and procedures.