Dermatology Staff Nurse

Dermatology Staff Nurse-(3303141)

Description

Ambulatory Staff Nurse - 40 hour Variable Day - BWH Dermatology

Excellent Care to Patients and Families

• The Best Staff
• In the Safest Environment

Nursing at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is known for their excellent clinical practice and for keeping patients and their families at the center of all they do.

We understand that great care is shaped by relationships with patients and their families. That’s why we’re committed to knowing our patients on a deeper level not just as patients, but as individuals to ensure that they, and their families, feel known and cared for.

At BWH, we proudly work together with a spirit of inquiry and a deep commitment to providing the highest quality, evidence-informed and theory-guided care in an inclusive environment.

We work each day to achieve our vision to provide excellent care to patients and families, with the best staff, in the safest environment.

Just as we have been able to reinvent healthcare, we have also transformed healthcare careers. Whether measured in terms of lives saved, awards earned, or the personal satisfaction of stretching your talents a career with BWH is unlike any other in the healthcare field.

Here you'll find a workplace where collaboration and teamwork are the norm, not the exception physicians, nurses, technicians, staff, and management form a close-knit bond, based on mutual respect and devotion to our patients.

If you want an enormously fulfilling career, there’s no better place to be.

The Contact Dermatitis and Occupational Dermatology Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) specializes in identifying allergens using a non-invasive skin evaluation called patch testing.

The contact dermatitis evaluation facilitates identification of allergens that may be present in a variety of sources such as soaps, shampoos, moisturizers, topical medications, jewelry, and textiles.

Based on the results from this intricate process, a customized plan for allergen avoidance will be created for each patient.

Many patients are cured from their rashes after contact allergens are identified and avoided.

The Staff Nurse will be responsible for :

• Providing patient-centered nursing support for patients within the Contact Dermatitis and Occupational Dermatology clinic.
• Conducting patient triage, post-procedure follow-up, and determining disposition of care based on the nursing assessment.
• Fulfilling nurse-only visits with a strong focus on initiating post-patch testing education and counseling and addressing all patient questions or concerns.

These visits may include, but are not limited to, providing detailed instructions and advice to patients about appropriate care and recommendations after patch removal, detailed review of MD treatment plan on final patch day, review of allergen-specific information, review of dietary information, and a detailed review of products and their ingredients in order to clarify patient questions and identify contact allergens in the products.

Extensive counseling and education will be completed over the phone, electronically, and / or in person.

• Conducting patch testing final read visits and flowsheet documentation with physician support as needed.
• Creating and implementing clinical care plans for patients, in collaboration with physicians.
• Collaborating with nursing leadership and nursing clinical educators to design practice-specific trainings that will address clinical staff needs, as well as refreshers to review clinical workflows.
• Modeling active participation in JC readiness, Magnet readiness, and other quality programs as needed.
• Performing all clinic nursing functions, including but not limited to, dispensing allergens in preparation for patch testing visits (500-800+ allergens per session), marking, taping, and drawing diagrams for allergen placement, and queuing EPIC lab orders or executing orders according to protocol and in close collaboration with physicians.
• Ensuring that ambulatory patients are seen promptly by the appropriate clinician(s) and that appropriate coordination of care and communication is maintained with the patients and referring providers.
• Maintaining familiarity with department activity and a close working relationship with clinicians and support staff to provide the most appropriate triage and facilitate timely and effective communication and scheduling.
• Preparing, performing, and documenting the coordination of clinical care including, but not limited to, contacting external companies regarding the investigation of contact allergen presence in specific products, composing work notes detailing the need for occupational modifications, drafting responses to disability forms, contacting pharmacies to obtain information about medication formulations, and calling compounding pharmacies to coordinate compounding medications in different dilutions for patch testing.
• Participating in departmental and organizational quality improvement or clinical research projects as directed by the leadership team.
• Proficient use of the electronic medical record, documenting in a manner that is clear, complete, concise, and in SBAR format when appropriate to remain compliant with nursing standards.
• Working in a normal office setting, work entails extended periods of sitting and fast paced, phone-based care.
• Working collaboratively to provide excellent care to patients and families in the safest environment.
• Other duties as assigned by the supervising physician or leadership team.

Qualifications

To qualify you must have :

• Education : Graduate of an approved school of nursing with current registration in Massachusetts. Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing is preferred.
• Experience :
• Minimum of 3-5 years of recent (within the past 6 months) clinical nursing experience in an Ambulatory Clinic / Practice setting is required.

Must have extensive knowledge of ambulatory and specialty-specific clinical practices, workflows, and operations. Experience only in an ambulatory procedural area or ED is not sufficient.

o Minimum of 3-5 years of recent (within the past 6 months) clinical nursing experience in a Contact Dermatitis clinic is required.

o Recent (within the past 6 months) experience providing extensive contact dermatitis and occupational dermatology education and counseling is required.

o Recent experience with telephone-based education is required.

Other :

o Membership in professional organizations is recommended and nursing certification in Ambulatory Care or an Ambulatory Specialty area is preferred.

o Able to work weekend rotation per the MNA contract

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, I CARE Standards

The I CARE Standards guide me in my interactions with patients, family members, visitors, colleagues, and neighbors in my workplace and surrounding community to optimize the Brigham experience and help fulfill my role in our mission of providing seamless, high-quality patient and family-centered care.

C. I will Communicate my commitment to high-quality performance

A. I will Appear and act as a professional

R. I will Respect all individuals

E. I will Extend myself