Clinic Nurse - Comprehensive Weight Management

Position Summary

The Clinic Nurse is a key member of the interdisciplinary team responsible for coordination of care for the comprehensive weight management patient. The Clinic Nurse is to provide professional nursing care in a clinical setting. The process includes assessment of patient and family, education and continuity of care. The Clinic Nurse is responsible for the documenting all related activities in accordance with clinical protocol requirements and OSUMC Policy and Procedure. Nursing care is delivered in a manner that is cost effective without compromising patient care. The Clinic Nurse designs, implements and evaluates systems to improve the quality of nursing care for the patient.

Duties and Responsibilities

95% of the time: Serves as a Clinic Nurse by providing and documenting patient care in accordance with applicable standards of practice.

• Applies the nursing process to all areas of practice
• Provides care according to patient needs; performs specialized nursing care as outlined in department/unit specific competency profiles
• Provides nursing care in a multi-disciplinary care setting which demonstrates sound professional judgment, clinical competence, appropriate job knowledge, teaching skills and a working sense of resource management. All of these activities occur in a Customer First service environment.
• Participates in unit performance improvement initiatives.
• Triages patient phone calls, collects medication histories, and provides care as needed.
• Responsible for reviewing and reporting lab and test results
• Teaches patients and/or families appropriate health information..
• Provides nursing care to assigned patients; formulates, implements and evaluates nursing care based on individual needs.
• Records observations of medical needs. Completely and accurately documents care and care processes in paper and electronic medical records.
• Provides patient care as delegated by physicians, APPs, including medications, treatments, and procedures.
• Participates in the accumulation of data to be utilized in Clinical Research projects.
• Maintains a safe and secure environment
• Assumes coordinating role in emergency situations
• Keeps abreast of current developments/ technologies in field of practice
• Incorporates evidence based practice in approaches to problem-solving and decision-making
• Demonstrates a willingness to share professional/technical expertise and advice with others
• Adheres to regulatory compliance standards (JCAHO, ODH, etc.)
• Attends and/or presents in-service and continuing education programs
• Represents professional nursing on committees
• May assume preceptor responsibility
• Performs miscellaneous duties to support the mission of OSUWMC
• Communicates pertinent patient information to other members of the care team
• Performs related work as required.

5% of the time:

• Supervises, evaluates, and directly observes implementation of nursing care by support personnel in the clinical setting.

Effective performance in this role at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center requires the Clinic Nurse to demonstrate core competencies in the area of customer focus, teamwork, job knowledge, and resource management. Job knowledge is demonstrated in the performance of primary duties and responsibilities while the remaining competencies address the manner in which the role is performed.

Customer Focus: Provides quality service to customers, including patients, families, other staff and the community.

• Embraces organizational caring values and uses them to guide interaction with others
• Adheres to customer service standards; encourages and supports a service orientation by other staff
• Anticipates needs of both internal and external customers
• Meets commitments and responds to requests in a timely manner
• Evaluates service delivery and identifies gaps that impact patient care
• Builds customer confidence by listening to and addressing customer needs
• Assumes responsibility for solving customer problems
• Solicits opinions and ideas from customers when addressing problem resolution
• Adheres to OSUMC Standards for Employee Conduct including the display of good judgment and high ethical standards.
• Maintains professional image as demonstrated by compliance with the dress code.

Teamwork: Works effectively as a team member to achieve organizational and departmental goals

• Prioritizes care needs; coordinates activities of the team; appropriately delegates elements of care to members of the team
• Actively participates in decision-making that impacts the team (e.g. serving on committees)
• Maintains a positive relationship and open communication with other team members
• Respects the views of team members; effectively uses group process to achieve team goals
• Functions as a role model and facilitates integration of new members into the patient care team
• Assesses learning needs of new team members; plans and implements learning activities based on assessments
• Utilizes conflict resolution skills to resolve differences within the team
• Promotes cooperation and collaboration with other team members and teams to achieve OSUMC goals
• Functions in the team model for continuous improvement

Resource Management: Makes effective use of available resources, including time, people, materials and financial resources

• Organizes and adjusts resources to maximize productivity
• Systematically organizes and prioritizes work
• Uses own time (and others time) effectively
• Performs tasks in a cost effective manner while maintaining quality
• Creatively identifies and uses resources (i.e. consults with Advanced Practice Nurses, etc.)
• Contributes to performance improvement of the hospital, the unit and the patient care team

Organizational Expectations

The Clinic Nurse practices within the OSUWMC policies and procedures and Division of Nursing standards of practice. He/she adheres to the Intensive Caring Value statements and patient focused care model as demonstrated through positive patient/guest relations, positive effective interaction with staff and formulating and meeting developmental goals.

Minimum Qualifications

For Hire: Graduate of an accredited school of registered nursing. Current Ohio license or interim permit. Previous experience in a relevant care setting preferred.

On going: Maintains and seeks new knowledge related to evidence based practice, patient care issues, quality improvement, cost reduction, current policies, procedures, and protocols. Maintains current Ohio RN license. Meets mandatory educational and health requirements. Demonstrates computer skills required to meet job functions.

Patient Population Served

Knowledge of growth and development and an understanding of the range of treatments necessary to meet the age specific needs of the patient population served.

Adolescents (14 - 17 years)

Adults (18 - 64 years)

Geriatrics (65 + years)