Nurse Associate RN NephrologyRenal Full-Time Days
Nurse Associate RN NephrologyRenal Full-Time Days
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Job Description
Be a part of a worldclass academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine as a Nurse Associate (RN) with our Nephrology/Renal Clinic. In this role you will partner with the rest of the clinical team to provide patients the highest quality of care.
Eligible for a SignOn Bonus up to $5000!
In this role the Nurse Associate (RN) is responsible for coordinating diagnostic and therapeutic regimens for a specified group of patients and maintains cohesiveness between clinical research physicians and patients. The Nurse Associate coordinates physician activities with referring physicians nursing staff hospital administration ancillary services support services insurance companies and other departments/sections and agencies as needed and assists the physician with a wide range of activities necessary to manage clinical research programs. In addition the Nurse Associate functions as a liaison between physicians patients and families assists physicians with bedside procedures and provides patient care in the clinic with the physician as necessary.
Essential Job Functions:
- Conducts responds to follow up on and triages patient phone calls to the physician as appropriate
- Assists physician in clinic or procedure area with patient examinations diagnostic tests and/or
- therapeutic procedures. Continuously monitors vital signs of patients under conscious sedation throughout procedure
- Counsels patients concerning lifestyle modifications medication regimens side effects and
- interactions using an appropriate psychosocial communication level
- Communicates to clinics coordinators followup appointments ancillary and/or preoperative testing and scheduling needed for patient
- Arranges patient admissions; coordinates ordering of tests/procedures with fellows attendings and other nursing staff
- Assists physicians in coordination of research programs by screening patients for acceptance into clinical research and outcome programs. Maintains office file notes reviews charts enters data for sectional demographic data base assists in summarization and analysis of data
Required Qualifications:
- Must have experience working in a community health setting
- ABachelors degree in Nursing
- Associate Degree Nurses are required to enroll in a BSN program within six 6 to nine 9 months of hire and make progress toward and complete their BSN degree within 30 months. ADN nurses receive 100 tuition reimbursement towards a BSN degree from an accredited program.
- Must be an actively licensed Registered Nurse in the state of Illinois
- Must have a minimum of two years experience working as an RN
Position Details:
- Job Type/FTE: Full Time 1.0 FTE)
- Shift: Days 8:30m5:00pm
- Work Location: Onsite
- Unit/Department: Nephrology/Renal
- CBA Code: NNU
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
