Posting Note: Clinical Nurse – Gastroenterology Outpatient Clinic

Phoenix Children’s | Full-Time | Monday–Friday, with Flexibility for either 4 10-hour shifts or 5, 8-hour shifts!

Phoenix Children’s is seeking a dedicated Clinical Nurse to join our Gastroenterology/Hepatology outpatient team! This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced pediatric nurse who enjoys collaborating with providers, educating families, and coordinating care for children with complex gastrointestinal conditions.

In this role, you will partner with four providers to deliver exceptional, family-centered care, helping patients manage their conditions at home and preventing unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations. You’ll play a vital role in coordinating care, providing education, and empowering families to confidently manage their child’s health.

What You’ll Love About This Opportunity:

Work alongside a collaborative, supportive team dedicated to improving the lives of children.
Build meaningful relationships with patients and families through education and care coordination.
Make a difference by helping families manage complex medical conditions outside the hospital.
Enjoy a consistent schedule with a strong emphasis on work-life balance, with flexible scheduling: 4/10's OR 5/8's
Receive approximately six weeks paid training to support your transition into the role.

Qualifications:
• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Minimum of two years of nursing experience in a hospital and/or outpatient clinic setting.
• Previous PEDIATRIC nursing experience REQUIRED.
• Gastroenterology, or experience caring for patients with complex gastrointestinal conditions preferred.
• Demonstrated teamwork, strong communication, and care coordination skills.
• A passion for patient and family education and delivering exceptional pediatric care.
• Flexibility to provide occasional coverage at other Phoenix Children’s locations

Key Responsibilities:
• Telephone triage and care coordination (approx. 90%), not much direct care
• Coordinate care with multiple specialists, hospitals, and community resources
• Partner with providers and interdisciplinary teams to support medically complex patients

New graduates are not eligible for this position.
If you’re a pediatric nurse who thrives in a team-oriented environment and wants to make a meaningful impact on children and families, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity at Phoenix Children’s!

This position, in collaboration with the healthcare team, patient, and family, coordinates and promotes patient health utilizing evidence-based practice in the delivery of professional nursing care across the care continuum. This position advocates for the patient and family adhering to nursing and medical plans of care, regulatory standards, and organizational values.

• Utilizes multiple platforms to complete a nursing assessment of patients and their families consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors. Synthesizes and analyzes data to determine nursing diagnoses, prioritize needs, and develop a nursing plan of care.
  
• Implements plans of care in accordance with regulatory and organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines.
  
  Provides health education related to health promotion and the management of acute and chronic health conditions including skills required to maintain and restore health.
  
  Coordinates care and manages care transitions within the organization and the community, working collaboratively with the healthcare team, patient, and family to promote positive outcomes and prevent complications.
  
  Advocates for patients and families, offering support and guidance related to navigating ambulatory services and processes, resource management, and community-based services. Partners with patients and families to establish realistic goals and expectations.
  
• Continually evaluates patient understanding and response to the plan of care. Shares observations and assessment outcomes with healthcare team, patient, and family to ensure timely communication and understanding of health status, progress, and ongoing needs. Modifies nursing diagnoses and plan of care based on re-evaluation. Documents in the medical record.
  
• Facilitates the delivery of safe patient care, monitoring quality and regulatory indicators, and working with leaders to identify process improvement opportunities.
  
  Supervises patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency. Provides timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team members performance level, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.
  
• Contributes to the team effort by accomplishing required activities within establish parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable medication, storage, and documentation standards, regulations, and requirement.
  
• Fosters a positive learning environment by modeling best practices and patient-centered care while providing guidance, training, and support to students and new employees through mentorship, clinical instruction, and knowledge sharing.
  
• Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.
  

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families

Phoenix Children's will be the leading pediatric health system in the Southwest, nationally recognized for exceptional care, innovative research and advanced medical education.

We realize this vision by:

• Offering the most comprehensive care across ages, communities and specialties
• Investing in innovative research, including emerging treatments, tools and technologies
• Advancing education and training to shape the next generation of clinical leaders
• Advocating for the health and well-being of children and families

• We place children and families at the center of all we do
• We deliver exceptional care, every day and in every way
• We collaborate with colleagues, partners and communities to amplify our impact
• We set the standards of pediatric healthcare today, and innovate for the future
• We are accountable for making the highest quality care accessible and affordable