Field Nurse Educator Tacoma, WA

Nurse Educator

Patients are at the center of our business strategies. The Nurse Educator Program is an educational based program designed as a resource for patients living with chronic diseases that have been prescribed specific medications. Nurse Educators provide education about specific disease treatments, and resources to help patients better begin and manage their disease state and resources associated with their prescribed medication. Nurse Educators are responsible for participating in one-on-one communications with patients. The Nurse Educator interacts with enrolled patients in person, by telephone, video platforms, email and SMS strictly following the guidelines of the program. Since the program is strictly educational based, Nurse Educators do not provide medical advice or work clinically within this role.

The Nurse Educator will:

• Coordinate and facilitate the connection between patients and program approved, patient-based resources.
• Provide direct educational training to patients on specific disease states and assigned medication.
• Ability to support multiple disease states and medications as needed
• Provide patient-focused education to promote behavioral change for the empowerment of patients to improve specific treatment compliance
• Foster appropriate dialogue between patient and health care provider

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and/or BSN preferred
• RN licensure required in state of residency compact multi-state license as available per state
• Current nursing license in good standing
• 5 + yrs. clinical experience in healthcare to include hospital, home health, pharmaceutical or biotech
• Nurse educator experience preferred
• Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred
• Valid driver's license required
• Ambassador must live in the designed territory as determined by the business
• Direct interaction with patients and support for persistence and compliance
• Knowledge of clinical data and pharmacology
• Demonstrated time management skills; planning and prioritization skills; ability to multi-task and maintain prioritization of key projects and deadlines
• Demonstrated effective presentation skills; ability to motivate others; excellent interpersonal (written and verbal) skills with demonstrated effectiveness to work cross functional and independently
• Demonstrated ability to develop, follow and execute developed plans in an independent environment
• Dedicated home workspace
• Demonstrated ability to effectively build positive relationships both internally & externally
• Demonstrated ability to be adaptable to changing work environments and responsibilities
• Fully competent in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and iPad technology
• Flexibility to work weekends and evenings
• Traveling up to 60-70%
• Duties may require compliance with client requirements that all those performing services on-site be fully vaccinated
• Annual salary + car allowance + ability to earn bonus