Population Health Registered Nurse - West Valley Area

Population Health Registered Nurse - West Valley Area

The Population Health RN collaborates with all members of the health care team to coordinate and facilitate quality care for late-stage CKD and ESRD patients. The Care Navigator partners with care team to improve preparation of patients requiring Renal Replacement Therapy by ensuring each patient receives treatment options, modality education, early vascular access planning, and dialysis preparation when necessary.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Coordinates and monitors the assessment, treatment planning process, and follow-up for each patient
• Actively partner with Nephrologist and nephrology care team to participate in the assessment, evaluation and planning of patient care, revising as necessary for CKD and ESRD population health management.
• Engage with patients and their families to provide education and support relative to the management of their disease and treatment options.
• Collaborate with patients, Nephrologist, and nephrology care team to identify potential barriers to achieve plan of care goals, as well as create solutions to overcome barriers to achieve goals.
• Identifies and communicates significant abnormalities in the patient data to appropriate team members who are responsible for coordination of all patient services.
• Utilizes the appropriate charting format and documents accurately and timely with an understanding of the legal implications.
• Serves as patient advocate, assessing care and ensuring that quality care is given.
• Communicates the patient plan of care with the physician, patient and care team members.
• Evaluate program processes and makes recommendations to management that will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the program.
• Partners with appropriate teams to provide, coordinate and integrate Treatment Options and Kidney Disease Education programs to reduce the incidence of acute ESRD onset and improve management of co morbid diseases for patients starting Renal Replacement Therapy.
• Intervenes with patients and caregivers to ensure successful transition into dialysis, including but not limited to receiving modality education, permanent access placement and adjusting to the demands of dialysis while maintaining patient identified quality of life
• Assist with various projects as assigned by direct supervisor.
• Keeps supervisor informed on any patient issues, and overall opportunities for improvement.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education/Experience: RN Positions: -year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language Ability: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Math Ability: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software, spreadsheet software, and word processing software.
• Certificates and Licenses: Basic cardiac life support certification required. For RN positions, valid unrestricted RN license required.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme heat; risk of radiation and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits:

We value our employees' time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and vision benefits and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.