Staff Nurse, Infectious Diseases

2 days ago

Boston MA United States Brigham and Women’s Hospital Full time

Job Description - Staff Nurse, Infectious Diseases - Ambulatory (3306059)

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.

The BWH Infectious Diseases Clinic provides holistic, therapeutic care to the following patient populations: patients with acute infections and chronic infections with a specialty in management of HIV/AIDS in an inclusive and nonjudgmental environment; patients receiving outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT); and patients receiving pre and post HIV exposure; and patients in need of counseling and immunizations for upcoming international travel.

The Infectious Disease Staff Nurse will provide direct and indirect nursing care to patients within the Infectious Diseases Clinic as follows:

  1. Work collaboratively with all members of the interdisciplinary Infectious Diseases team to provide evidence based, compassionate care to patients and families.
  2. Outreach and/triage patients communicating with the Infectious Diseases clinic by telephone or Patient Gateway message in a clear, compassionate, and empathetic manner.
  3. Document the coordination of clinical care including, but not limited to: assisting patients with medication questions, explaining lab results, providing patient education, acting on nurse-driven protocols, participating in prescription management.
  4. Administer medication and vaccines as needed during provider clinic sessions and for patients who have nurse visit appointments or walk in; Work independently based on nurse-driven protocols as indicated.
  5. Conduct nurse visits for practice patients who present for infectious disease related care such as STI testing, medication teaching, medication administration, immunization administration, IV dressing change, OPAT education.
  6. Interpret and evaluate lab results to assess patients’ clinical response to therapy and assess overall health care needs.
  7. Case management of patients with HIV receiving injectable ART.
  8. Case management of patients in the OPAT (Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy) program to ensure that initiation and continuity of care are established in patients’ homes and at rehab facilities.
  9. Communicate regularly with outpatient infusion pharmacies, visiting nurses, and other community partners providing care to patients receiving OPAT to ensure safe administration of antibiotics and to problem solve issues with IV access.
  10. Participate in departmental and organizational quality management and/or quality improvement projects.
  11. Demonstrate proficient use of the electronic medical record.
  12. Perform technical skills including but not limited to: PICC line management and dressing change, blood draw from PICC line, vaccine and IM injections, wound dressing changes, assistance with procedures as requested.
  13. Flexibility and adaptability in a collaborative team-based care model.
  14. Other duties as assigned by the leadership team.

To qualify you must have:

  1. Education: Graduate of an approved school of nursing with current registration as a registered nurse in Massachusetts. BSN is required for newly licensed nurses.
  2. Required Experience: Minimum of one year of recent (within the last year) clinical nursing experience in a primary care or public health sexually transmitted disease practice.
  3. Required Experience: Minimum of one year of patient care coordination experience.
  4. Required Experience: Minimum of one year of patient telephone triage experience that includes telephone-based clinical assessment techniques for an ambulatory outpatient setting.

Preferred Experience:

  1. Team-based care.
  2. Proficiency in EPIC electronic health records.
  3. Ambulatory Infectious Disease, HIV/AIDS experience strongly preferred.
  4. Fluency in Spanish preferred.

Other:

  1. Excellent communication and customer service skills.
  2. Demonstrated excellence in critical thinking skills.
  3. Membership in professional organizations is recommended and certification in Ambulatory Care or ambulatory specialty area is preferred.
  4. Ability to work evening and weekend shift rotations per the MNA contract.
  5. Working in a normal office setting; work entails extended periods of sitting and fast-paced work, phone-based care.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is an Affirmative Action Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Primary Location

75 Francis St

Job

Nursing-Other

Organization

Brigham & Women's Hospital(BWH)

Schedule

Full-time

Standard Hours 40

Shift

Day Job

Employee Status

Regular

Recruiting Department BWH Department Of Medicine / Infectious Disease

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