Ambulatory Nurse II - HUP

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits program

Prepaid tuition assistance program

Job summary

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System seeks a Full-Time Ambulatory Nurse II for their Philadelphia facility. The role requires an RN who will provide comprehensive patient care, engage as a full partner within the health care team, and demonstrate professionalism and leadership.

Applicants must have a diploma or ASN and over 15 months of relevant experience. The position emphasizes evidence-based practice, teamwork, and continuous quality improvement, offering a comprehensive benefits package and a commitment to the advancement of medical care.

Qualifications

• RN required with state licensure.
• More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience is needed.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and integrate current evidence with patient care.
• Minimize risk of harm to patients and families.
• Demonstrate professional commitment through lifelong learning.
• Provide patient-centered care based on respect for preferences.
• Collaborate using systems thinking to promote healthcare changes.
• Utilize technology to support decision making in care.
• Engage in teamwork for safe, quality patient outcomes.
• Utilize data to identify problems and improve care quality.

Skills

Evidence Based Practice

Patient Care

Teamwork

Leadership

Informatics/Technology

Continuous Quality Improvement

Education

Diploma or ASN from accredited school of nursing

BSN from accredited school of nursing

Tools

ACLS

BCLS

PALS

Job description

Description

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.

The Hospital of University of Penn is looking for a Full-Time Ambulatory Nurse II.

Location: 3400 Spruce St.

Schedule: M-F

Department: Med HUP EPS Lab

Summary

• The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague possesses the knowledge, skills and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice as specified in the Ambulatory Nurse II position description addendum. The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional practice competency domains. The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients. Assigned patients may range in age from infancy to the elderly. The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague demonstrates within the competency domains of Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care, Professionalism, Safety, Technology/Informatics, and Teamwork. The Ambulatory Nurse II Colleague works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding the knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of assigned 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-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.

Credentials

• RN required with state licensure.
• ACLS or BCLS or PALS (Required).

Education or Equivalent Experience

Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing and more than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience.

BSN from an accredited school of nursing and more than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience.

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 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.