Provide nursing care in a variety of Ambulatory Care settings with primary responsibilities in the Health Centers with Pediatric focus.
This position includes care of adult and pediatric patients in family practice, general pediatrics, med peds, and specialty settings. Includes but not limited to:
Assessment of patient needs and assist with medical issues related to health concerns.
Manage prescription refill requests and secure patient messages.
Adapts communication style to patients representing diverse personal, professional, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds.
Uses excellent listening skills to receive detailed information.
Utilize electronic protocol database to assess, educate and document all health information in an accurate and expedient fashion.
Meets minimum established quality and productivity standards
Knowledge and appropriate use of internal and external resources.
Collaborate with providers when necessary in providing advice or determining disposition for patient.
Provide functional supervision to assistive personnel; collaborate with colleagues, other disciplines, and health care/community services to promote continuity of care.
Telephone management, patient and family education, assistance with procedures, daily clinic operations management, functional supervision of assistive personnel and other responsibilities as requested. ** This position could involve travel to various locations to all Michigan Medicine facilities with this patient population.
Expectations of the position:
Demonstrated critical thinking skills through use of the nursing process, excellent problem solving skills, and demonstrated ability to set priorities.
Demonstrated customer service, interpersonal communication skills, and the ability to build respectful relationships within and between units and individuals.
Demonstrated accountability and dependability including good attendance record with punctuality.
Demonstrated adaptability to changing needs and priorities based on unit, department, and institutional goals/objectives.