Job Description

Job Summary
Job Summary:
The Department of Pediatrics in the University of Utah School of Medicine has an immediate opening for a Clinical Nurse Lead within the Division of Gastroenterology (GI). The Clinical Nurse Lead serves as the team lead over other Clinical Nurses within the Peds GI division. As a team lead, this position coordinates and guides the work activities of other RN staff. This position monitors work schedules, maintains department scheduling guidelines, leads nursing practice oversight, and helps to train and mentor new staff.

In addition to lead worker responsibilities, the Clinical Nurse Lead also works collaboratively as an active member of the triage nursing team to provide patient and family centered care. The Clinical Nurse Lead establishes goals and strategies for meeting care coordination needs across settings with the patient, family, other care providers, and other Department of Pediatrics teams (such as HIM and central triage). The Clinical Nurse Lead considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and fiscal accountability in planning and delivering care. The Clinical Nurse Lead participates in continuous quality improvement initiatives and coordinates with the manager to implement best practices.

Responsibilities
Nurse Lead Essential Functions (~20%):
Executes nursing interventions by collaborating with the GI team, incorporating appropriate standards of care for practice and patient outcomes.
Works in collaboration with the care team to develop the plan of care. Evaluates patient’s response to plan of care and works in collaboration with the GI team to make any needed adjustments.
Assumes responsibility and accountability for ensuring appropriate nursing care of individual patients.
Documents nursing assessments and interventions to reflect a comprehensive and integrated approach to patient care.
Identifies learning needs of the patient and families. Educates by adapting to patient and family learning styles.
Provides care that is safe, ethical, patient- and family-centered, culturally congruent, and evidence-based.
Assist with the coordination of care across the continuum (e.g. inpatient, outpatient, home, skilled nursing facility, schools).
Responsible for reviewing and approving timecards of the RN team. Ensures message pool coverage when RN’s call out sick.
Collects feedback and ideas from the RN team, investigates the ideas/feedback, and then collaborates with the Division Manager on implementation.
Coordinate with Division Manager to load balance each Clinical Nurse’s provider assignments.
Provides general feedback to the Division Manager about the triage RN team’s performance pertinent to the performance review cycle.
Serves as a mentor and resource to RN staff.
Other duties as assigned.

GI Patient Management (~80%):
Performs phone management with patients’ parents, chart review, care coordination, triage, and problem management.
Reviews test results and evaluates patient response to interventions and modifies plan of care as needed to achieve health care goals. Communicates adjustments or changes in treatment plans to patient/family.
Review and manage communications from internal and external customers.
Provides and develops patient/family education materials surrounding common Gastroenterology disorders; communicates education best practices to proactively answer common questions to reduce future messages.
Executes delegation protocols to GI staff such as MA’s
Assists with medication management (e.g. medication renewals).
Completes accurate and timely documentation in the electronic medical record.
Assists with management of urgent and emergency patient care situations.