Description
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Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
Job Title: Ambulatory Nurse I
Department: Podiatry
Location: Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine-3400 Civic Center Blvd
Hours: Full Time
Summary:
Penn Plastic Surgery is hiring an Ambulatory RN to join their podiatry team. The team is comprised of two podiatrists, an LPN, an RN, and a surgery scheduler. The RN is an integral team member and will assist with patient treatment and management from pre-operative to post-operative care. The RN will function as part of a dynamic team that treats a high volume of patients and provides the full spectrum of foot and ankle care. The RN role will include:
- Providing patient education, counseling, and instruction regarding patient diagnosis, medical/surgical treatments, medications, and pre and post-operative care
- Managing patient calls and My Penn Medicine messages, answering patient concerns and questions
- Assisting the providers during their office clinic days – patient consult and examination, EMR documentation, patient instructions and follow-up
- Provide direct patient care including post-operative dressing changes, wound checks, and suture removals
- Various other tasks as assigned to assist the team in providing the highest quality care to patients
Responsibilities:
- Evidence Based Practice and Research: The nurse evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
- Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
- Professionalism: The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.
- Person and Family Centered Care: The nurse recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
- Leadership: The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence[1]based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
- Informatics/Technology: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
- Teamwork: The nurse effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
- Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
- Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures
- Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization
Credentials:
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
- Basic Cardiac Life Support BLS/ACLS/PALS (per specialty)
- Registered Nurse - PA (Required)
- Registered Nurse with State Licensure (Required)
Education or Equivalent Experience
- Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing (required)
- Up to 15 months of nursing experience (required)
- Bachelor's Degree - BSN from an accredited school of nursing (preferred)
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
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We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
Live Your Life's Work
We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.
