About the Role
This role is part of the Department of Digital Medicine - Virtual Practice Support, focusing on providing comprehensive patient care within a virtual setting. The position involves assessing, diagnosing, and managing patient conditions, providing health education, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to ensure coordinated and high-quality care delivery.
Responsibilities
- Assess, diagnose, and determine/alter treatment and management plans appropriate for age, acuity, and clinical condition.
- Order, perform, and interpret diagnostic studies.
- Prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions and therapies.
- Manage conditions based on clinical indication, evidence-based care, cost-effectiveness, and assessment of risks/benefits and alternatives.
- Provide health promotion, disease prevention, and disease management counseling and education to patients and families.
- Manage patients as part of an interdisciplinary team and within scope of practice.
- Seek physician or other healthcare team member consultation or referrals as appropriate.
- Escalate the need for more emergent or specialized care when necessary.
- Maintain accurate, complete, concise, and timely documentation in the electronic medical record.
- Substantiate and submit professional services consistent with compliant coding and billing practices.
- Facilitate consistent, coordinated care and clear communication among all members of the healthcare team and/or health or community agencies.
- Perform office or hospital procedures in accordance with specialty practice, competency, and granted privileges (where applicable).
- Participate in quality, safety, and peer review initiatives/performance activities, organizational and/or departmental meetings and committees, peer review, and workgroups as necessary.
- Participate in the education and/or onboarding of new team members, students, and other healthcare professionals.
- Seek experiences to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and advance the profession within and outside of the organization.
- Maintain standards of productivity, access, face-to-face time, and quality metrics to ensure optimal, safe, and timely patient care delivery.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Active RN, and APRN/APRN-FPA/APNP or other APRN license(s) in state(s) of practice.
- Active national board certification in area of clinical practice and populations served.
- Active DEA registration prior to hire.
- If Illinois practice: active Illinois Controlled Substance License prior to hire.
- Active BLS and/or ACLS, PALS, NRP as required by clinical practice prior to or within 6 months of hire.
- Master’s Degree in Nursing.
- No experience required.
- Demonstrated high level of clinical proficiency.
- Excellent decision-making skills.
- Ability to work independently and as an effective member of a health care team.
- Ability to adapt to evolving technology.
- Proficiency with the electronic medical record.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to effectively collaborate with and establish/build relationships with others.
- Proven organizational skills.
- Ability to prioritize effectively.
- Must be able to stand, walk, bend, stoop, and twist continuously throughout the workday.
- Must have functional speech, vision, touch, and hearing.
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs from floor to waist.
- Must be able to lift up to 20 lbs over the head.
- Must be able to carry up to 40 lbs a reasonable distance.
- Must be able to operate all equipment necessary to perform the job.
Skills
- Clinical proficiency
- Decision-making
- Teamwork
- Adaptability to technology
- Electronic medical record proficiency
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Relationship building
- Organization
- Prioritization
Location
- Virtual Practice Support
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- No experience required
Education Level
- Master’s Degree in Nursing
Salary/Compensations
- $51.05 - $76.60
Benefits
- Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards
- Benefits and well-being programs
- Competitive compensation
- Generous retirement offerings
- Programs that invest in career development
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
About the Company
- Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health.
- Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care.
- Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise.
- It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs.
- Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs.
- Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.
