REGISTERED NURSE: Brighton Center for Specialty Care
The Brighton Center for Specialty Care is the newest University of Michigan Ambulatory Care facility dedicated to providing high quality health care services for adults and children. We are actively seeking compassionate, enthusiastic, and patient-focused individuals who will share in the goal of crafting the ideal experience for our patients, families and employees.
Responsibilities*
* Provides nursing care to Orthopaedic Surgery patients who have been scheduled for surgery to support improved surgical outcomes, patient safety, efficient utilization of OR resources as well as improve faculty, staff and patient satisfaction.
* Coordinates care pre-operatively for patients already scheduled for surgery for orthopaedic patient populations including, but not limited to pre-op clearances, lab result follow-up, medical record review for surgical risk factors, need for medical clearances, medication management before and after surgery.
* Provides patient and family education on surgical needs including in-person patient education classes and telehealth education.
* Provides nursing assessment and care to include but not limited to post-op wound and incision site assessment.
* Position will expand to include all Orthopaedic divisions as capacity is determined.
* Prepares consent for patients as directed under MM protocol.
* Develops and distributes weekly OR list for Ortho team.
* Provides tele-health nursing to patients and families to include: triaging calls from patients and families, clinicians, and other healthcare team members.
* Collaborate with other health team members and associated resource persons to ensure continuity of care across all care environments.
* Assist in the development and implementation of competencies, protocols, and patient education tools to improve patient care.
* Candidate must be able to function with a minimum of supervision and be highly motivated to provide excellent care and patient advocacy.
* Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications*
* Current license to practice Nursing in the State of Michigan.
* Three (3) years direct experience with Adult Orthopaedic patients as a RN, within the last five (5) years. Preference given to experience working with total joint replacement patient population.
Must be willing to travel to off-site clinics to provide coverage with potential expansion of orthopaedic divisions.
Desired Qualifications*
* Ambulatory Care experience including telephone triage in a surgical population.
* BSN preferred.
Work Schedule
Hours per week: 0.5 FTE position (24 hours one week, followed by 16 hours the following week). Shift/ Days/ Hours: Day shift; variable hours; 8hr shifts. Location: Brighton Center for Specialty Care with potential to travel to off-site clinics to provide coverage with potential expansion of orthopaedic divisions.
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