CO Clinical Nurse (DOM General Internal Medicine)

We are seeking a Clinical Nurse who will support the General Internal Medicine (GIM) Faculty practice at Green Spring Station (GSS). Specific Duties & Responsibilities * Coordinates care for a group of complex patients to achieve clinical and organizational outcomes. * Provides evidence-based care based on nursing process, policies, procedures, and protocols of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. * Provides guidance to other team members to promote quality, safety, and excellence in care. * Actively participates in Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program (CUSP) initiatives. * Performs transitional care management calls for practice patients discharged from hospitals in the area and determines the need for short-term outpatient follow-up. * Provides direct patient care, when needed, for point of care testing, medication/vaccine administration, patient rooming and other duties as assigned. * Provides patient education for self-care chronic disease management, such as, diabetes education (in person, by phone, or via MyChart). * Works collaboratively with a multidisciplinary health care team to optimize team performance and patient outcomes. * Triages phone calls and electronic advice requests from patients and determines need for medical assessment. * Assesses lab results and implements intervention in consultation with primary providers. * Triages calls from outside institutions, JHM Emergency Departments, and other health care providers; determines and implements follow-up plans. * Identifies care continuity needs of patients; generates and pends orders to primary providers for signature. * Assists primary providers with maintaining electronic medical records; scans outside results into system, updates immunization history, updates health maintenance records, acts on overdue health maintenance items. * Conveys critical action values/ patient request of lab results when requested by provider (communication from MD to RN) * Assist in the development/updating of clinic-based protocols, standardized workflows, or other clinical practice procedures. * Helps lead quality improvement initiatives that are focused on outcomes measures that are relevant to primary care. * Assists Medical Office Coordinator (MOC) in scheduling patients for appointments. * Helps complete forms (e.g., disability, FMLA, mobility) requiring basic health history. * Helps obtain prior authorization for tests and medications * Provide oversight for ordering, stock, and maintenance of clinical supplies and equipment. Collaborates with clinic manager to ensure supplies, medications, and vaccines available and up-to-date for clinical use. * Responsible for other clinical duties as assigned. Skills and Abilities * Expected to learn the formal and informal departmental goals, standards, policies and procedures which may include some familiarity of other departments within the school/division. Is sensitive to the interrelationship of both people and functions within the department. * On a regular and continuous basis, exercises administrative judgment and assumes responsibility for decisions, consequences, and results having an impact on people, costs, and/or quality of service within the functional area. * Exchanges non-routine information using tact and persuasion as appropriate requiring good oral and written communication skills. * Knowledge of nursing process; social, behavioral, biological, and physical sciences; safety and scientific inquiry process and application to the skill performance; leadership and management as normally acquired through completion of a program in nursing. * Knowledge of current health care environment. * Knowledge of general physiologic monitoring and patient care equipment such as defibrillator and glucose monitor. * Successfully completes all training courses required for access to Epic and other clinical software systems. * Requires effective use of resources and cost awareness. * Ability to analyze...