Registered Nurse (RN) - Primary Care Clinic (Chicago)

Advocate Aurora Health; Chicago (IL); In loco; USD 85.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

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Advocate Medical Group in Chicago, IL is seeking a Registered Nurse to guide patients and families through diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. This role collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to ensure education, psychosocial support, advocacy, and continuity of care.

The position requires a state RN license, a Bachelor's in Nursing, and typically 5 years of nursing experience including assessments and care planning.

Competenze

• RN license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• Typically requires 5 years of nursing experience including performing nursing assessments, care plan development, and educating patients.

Mansioni

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings and develops a relationship with patient and multidisciplinary team.
• Completes a nursing assessment to identify patient needs and collaborates with the team to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Supports patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, and identifying barriers to care throughout the continuum.
• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing teaching plans and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance.
• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidence-based care across the care continuum resulting in the best patient outcomes.

Formazione

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Registered Nurse license (state)

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Job Description Summary:

Navigates patient and family members through the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care ensuring smooth transitions between care settings. Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to support patients and families in addressing the following dimensions of care: education, psychosocial needs, advocacy, and continuity of care.

Where You Will Work

Advocate Medical Group (AMG) is part of Advocate Health, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems. With more than 350 locations across Illinois and Wisconsin, AMG offers a wide range of specialties and services, including primary care, medical and surgical care, pediatrics, women’s health, behavioral health, and more. Our team is dedicated to delivering exceptional care and improving health outcomes in the communities we serve. Joining AMG means being part of a collaborative, patient-focused environment where innovation and quality care thrive.

We’re Looking For:

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices


• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.


• Typically requires 5 years of experience in nursing that includes performing nursing assessments, care plan development, and educating patients.

What You’ll Do:

Schedule: Travel may be a requirement to multiple sites based off of operational business needs. Each teammate is required to one late night per week and one Saturday per month.

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings. Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care.


• Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.


• Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care. Navigates patients and family members throughout the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care.


• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.


• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes.

About This Location:

The Advocate Care Center is a caring environment for people trying to manage multiple chronic conditions. Our health care team is committed to building relationships that help our patients get well and stay that way.

We're not meant to replace your primary care physician. We know your relationship with your doctor is important to you. It's important to us, too. Think of us as an extension of your doctor's office.

We work with your physician to provide additional time, and additional resources needed to get you back to living your best life based on your primary care physician's care plan.

All of us at the Advocate Care Center understand the challenges of dealing with conditions like heart failure, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and more. And we are designed to assist people juggling any number of these conditions.

Be the Nurse Who Redefines Care.

At Advocate Health, being a nurse means more than delivering exceptional clinical care—it means leading with purpose, compassion, and boldness. As part of our One Advocate Nurse community, you’ll join a unified team committed to lifting others up, embracing innovation, and creating inclusive spaces where everyone can thrive. You’ll be empowered to think boldly, collaborate with humility, and drive change through fearless curiosity. Whether you're at the bedside, in the community, or advancing care through research and education, you’ll help shape the future of health—because here, we’re redefining care for you, for us, for all.

Your feedback matters. Every nurse’s voice is vital in shaping our culture and improving care. We value your insights and experiences because they help us grow stronger together.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Must be able to sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, reach above shoulders, and twist frequently throughout the workday.


• Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies.


• Must be able to: push/pull with 30 lbs. of force and perform a sliding transfer of 150 lbs. with a second person present.


• Must have functional speech, vision, hearing, and touch with ability to use fine hand manipulation skills for IV insertion and other procedures/functions.


• Maneuver foot pedals on carts or machines.


• Perform physical safety interventions such as patient restraint and verbal de-escalation, if needed.


• May be exposed to chemical and hazardous waste as well as blood and body fluids and communicable disease. Therefore, protective clothing and equipment must be worn as necessary.


• Must be able to respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions.


• Physical Abilities Testing may be required.


• Additional department specific physical requirements may be identified for unique responsibilities within the department by the nurse leader.