RN Patient Educator- Nephrology/ Kidney Care preferred

We’re changing lives every day. For both our patients and our team members. Are you innovative and entrepreneurial minded? Is your work ethic and ambition off the charts? Do you inspire others with your kindness and joy? We’re unique. You should be, too. The RN Patient Educator collaborates with medical practitioners and leaders to incorporate chronic disease education into the plan of care for a specialized group of patients.

Requirements

• Provides chronic disease education relative to quality care for a specific patient population
• Coordinates care between their primary care physicians, community specialists and vendor services including hospitals
• Monitors chronic disease program performance across multiple medical centers
• Identifies gaps and implements improvements in patient and quality outcomes
• Assists with the development of strategies for quality improvement and management related to disease education
• Collaborates with medical center leaders and PCPs to evaluate, develop and implement patient education programs through needs assessment analysis
• Educates patients and/or family member(s) by gaining an understanding of their cultural and religious practices, emotional barriers, desire and motivation to learn, physical and/or cognitive limitations, language barriers and readiness to learn
• Identifies opportunities to minimize fragmentation of health care for patients
• Encourages decision-making about health care options by ensuring the patient and/or family member(s) understand the patient's health status
• Maximizes care skills by observing the patient and/or family member(s) ability to cope with patient's health status/prognosis/outcome and pivoting communication as necessary
• Enriches the patient’s overall health by promoting and encouraging healthy lifestyles
• Selects, adapts and individualizes patient education information by analyzing available brochures, printed materials, videos and other resources that align with the age, culture, religious practices, language, etc. of the patient
• Documents patient care services in patients’ chart and department records as determined by internal policies and procedures and external laws, rules and regulations
• Improves quality results by studying, evaluating and re-designing processes; implements changes as needed
• Coordinates care activities with transitional care team and case management to decrease hospitalizations and lengths of stay
• Develops trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to determine areas of opportunity supplemented with remediation strategies

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Health Insurance
• 401k Matching
• Tuition Reimbursement