Registered Nurse Pulmonary Clinic

Children's Hospital Colorado; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clinical Nurse II at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora provides Family-Centered Care within a multidisciplinary ambulatory pulmonary team. The CN II collaborates with pediatric pulmonologists, nurses, therapists and social workers to coordinate care for children with respiratory conditions.

You will educate families, perform telephone triage, participate in care planning, and use evidence-based practice to improve outcomes while ensuring safety and compassionate service.

Responsibilities

• Family-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
• Evidence Based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

Job description

Job ID: 108672

Location: Aurora

Position Type: Regular

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Job Overview

The Clinical Nurse (CN) II provides Family-Centered Care as demonstrated by recognizing the patient, family and/or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs. Assumes active role in clinical education of patients, families and staff. Functions effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise for delivery of optimal health care. Uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and uses improvement methods to test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision‑making.

The Breathing Institute is located on the Anschutz Campus in the Outpatient Pavilion with additional services offered across several Network of Care sites throughout the North Denver Metro, South Metro regions and Grand Junction. Our team provides comprehensive pulmonary care to pediatric patients and supports a wide range of respiratory and aerodigestive conditions through both medical management and collaborative interdisciplinary approaches.

Ambulatory pulmonary nurses work closely with an experienced team that includes pediatric pulmonologists, advanced practice providers, respiratory therapists, registered nurses, medical assistants, dietitians, and social workers. Together we coordinate care for patients with acute episodic and chronic respiratory conditions including:

• Aerodigestive conditions involving the airway lungs and upper gastrointestinal system
• Dysphagia and feeding related respiratory concerns
• Fontan physiology and complex cardiopulmonary interactions
• Narcolepsy and sleep related breathing concerns
• Neuromuscular conditions that impact respiratory strength and airway protection
• Multidisciplinary Asthma Clinic for patients requiring coordinated and intensive asthma management
• Pulmonary hypoplasia
• Interstitial lung disease
• Early Wheeze presentations and recurrent respiratory symptoms
• Neonatal respiratory disorders including chronic lung disease of prematurity
• Tracheostomy and ventilator dependent patient care

As an Ambulatory Pulmonary Nurse you will be part of a highly skilled interdisciplinary team that is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family centered care. You will support care coordination across the continuum provide education and resources in the clinic setting, perform telephone triage and help guide families in managing both common and complex respiratory needs.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Family-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.
  * Delivers patient and family centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence based care. Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
  * Care is guided by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care.
  * Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team. Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
  * Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
  * Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
  * Collaborates with team members in shared decision making.
• Evidence Based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
  * Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
  * Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
  * Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
  * Recognizes the standard of care