Registered Nurse Parkinson’s Elevated Program - Cottonwood Medical Clinic

Job Description:

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients. The Clinic RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members in an outpatient clinic setting. Clinic RNs are pivotal members of the care delivery team headed by the physician and have specialized knowledge, skills and ability pertinent to ambulatory care patient needs. Scope of performance includes prioritization and triage of care delivery, implementing established standing orders and protocols, performing procedures and therapies consistent with training and licensure.

Posting Specifics

• Benefits Eligible: Yes

• Shift Details: Full time (40 budgeted hours). Monday - Friday, hours are TBD.

• Unit/Location: Cottonwood Medical Clinic

• Preferred Qualifications: RN with Clinic experience preferred

Parkinson's Elevated Nurse (RN)

Parkinson's Elevated seeks a highly motivated, entrepreneurial nurse to join a passionate team helping build and refine a groundbreaking care model designed to redefine care for people living with Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism. This innovative program pairs a movement disorders neurologist and primary care provider who share responsibility for the patient's complete medical care, creating a single, integrated team accountable for outcomes across all care settings. Care is delivered through a combination of in-person and telemedicine visits, providing continuity whether patients are at home, traveling, hospitalized, or receiving rehabilitation services. The program emphasizes rapid access to a care team that knows each patient personally and incorporates activity and exercise as a core therapeutic intervention.

The Parkinson's Elevated Nurse will play a central role in this model, serving as a primary clinical contact for patients and helping coordinate care across specialties, settings, and disciplines. This is a unique opportunity to help build and refine a novel care delivery model while developing deep, longitudinal relationships with patients and families.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong clinical judgment, initiative, problem-solving skills, and a commitment to patient-centered care designed in a proactive way to maintain an elevated healthspan.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care for patients with Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in an ambulatory setting.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for patients and caregivers through phone, MyChart, telemedicine, and in-person interactions.
• Triage clinical concerns and facilitate rapid access to appropriate team members.
• Coordinate care across specialty, primary care, hospital, rehabilitation, and community settings.
• Coordinate transitions of care following emergency department visits, hospitalization, or rehabilitation stays.
• Perform post-discharge outreach and medication reconciliation.
• Support patient recruitment and onboarding into the Parkinson's Elevated program.
• Educate patients and caregivers regarding proactive disease management, medications, exercise, and available resources.
• Identify caregiver burden and connect families with resources.
• Lead group education programs and community events.
• Attend community outreach activities.
• Complete prior authorizations, disability paperwork, patient letters, and other clinical documentation.
• Partner with and mentor medical assistants regarding clinic workflows, inbox management, and patient communication.

Administrative and Program Development Responsibilities

• Help develop, implement, and continuously improve workflows for this emerging care model.
• Maintain and distribute patient education materials, website content, and other program resources.
• Develop and oversee patient communication systems and outreach strategies.
• Assist with scheduling and operational coordination, including urgent visit access and care coordination.
• Support community engagement, provider outreach, and program growth initiatives.
• Work closely with program leadership to identify opportunities for innovation, quality improvement, and enhanced patient experience.

• Assist with collection of quality metrics, patient-reported outcomes, and program performance measures.

• Facilitate identification of patients who may be eligible for clinical research opportunities.
• Support dissemination of program outcomes and best practices.

Ultimately, the Parkinson's Elevated RN is not simply supporting clinic visits; they are helping provide continuous, relationship-based care for a defined patient population across the full spectrum of healthcare settings.  Interested candidates should include a cover letter summarizing their interest in the role, relevant clinical and administrative experience, personal strengths, and what excites them most about helping shape an innovative, proactive patient-centered model of Parkinson's care.

Job Essentials

Assess:
Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative and developmental skills as appropriate).
Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.

Plan:
Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education.
Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up).

Implement:
Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination and collaboration as appropriate.
Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions.
Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.

Evaluate:
Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient and family satisfaction.
Revises plan of care as indicated, and reassesses changes as appropriate.

Professionalism:
Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others.
Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice: complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.


Minimum Qualifications:

• Current RN License in state of practice.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
• Practice specific certification as required by the clinical setting in which they work (i.e., ACLS, PALS, etc.).
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• RNs with less than 12 months of working experience as an RN prior to joining Intermountain must obtain their BSN within four years of their start date. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
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Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
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Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
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Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
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Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).
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May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

Location:

Cottonwood Medical Clinic

Work City:

Murray

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$35.22 - $53.29

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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