Clinical Nurse (Pulmonary)

The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is seeking a Clinical Nurse to provide clinical support for physicians, coordinate clinical programs in the Division and in multi-disciplinary cooperation with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and to serve as a liaison for the Division with departmental and institutional leadership.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Support

- Assist JH PACT (including physicians in both the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) faculty with Epic InBasket management (results, advice requests, prescription refills).
- Triage clinical or problem patient calls at the request of physicians or MOC.
- Assist physicians in contacting patients with test results, as directed.
- Pend orders for prescriptions to be signed by physicians.
- Contact patients to get clarification on medication dosing or clinical problem and discuss recommendations with physicians.
- Assist with prior authorization requests.
- Enter or pend orders for infusion testing.
- Attend outpatient telemedicine clinics with PCCM and PM&R faculty members (at the discretion of the Clinical Directors) to assist with prescription refills, laboratory testing, patient education, and coordination of care.

Clinical Program Coordination

JH PACT Program.

- Maintain logs of patient screening, treatments and visits.

- Coordinate and implement multidisciplinary activities for the evaluation and treatment of patients following COVID-19 infection.

- Triage patients referred to the JH PACT program.

- Data entry, management and calculations using computerized database, word processing and spreadsheet software; review data input for accuracy and completeness.

- Have initiative in anticipating and responding to program needs based on awareness of routine and repeated job functions.

- Actively communicate and update supervising coordinators, collaborators, administrators, clinicians and/or and program leaders on patient enrollment/treatment/eligibility and data collection status via verbal and written communication.

- Screening and hiring new clinical program staff.

- Ensure clinical program staff are adequately trained, and assessed using quality assurance procedures, to perform their work-related duties.

- Take initiative and anticipate and respond to staff and patient needs based on awareness of routine and repeated job functions.

- Demonstrate and serve as a role model for a positive work environment, including high motivation, positive attitude, and good judgment, tact, and sensitivity in all interpersonal interactions with all research staff, investigators, students and participants.

- Use explicit criteria, screen and identify eligible patients and maintain a paper and electronic log of eligible and non-eligible patients; request clarification from clinical and program staff if uncertainty regarding eligibility; promptly notify clinical and project staff of eligible patients.

- Communicate with program sponsors, coordinators and collaborators.

- Maintain filing system for electronic and paper-based patient records.

- Maintain compliance with HIPAA guidelines.

- Administer standardized surveys to patients or their proxies via phone, or via in-patient, clinic or home visits.

- Conduct standardized assessments of patients via in-patient, clinic or home visit.

- Coordinate weekly multidisciplinary meetings.

- Schedule meeting dates and notify JH PACT members of meeting times and distribute Zoom links and calendar invites.

- Keep a list of patients to be discussed at weekly meetings.

- Implement a workflow within Teams, Outlook and Epic to coordinate patient appointments.

- Evaluate and implement patient referrals.

- Develop patient education and informational materials in Epic (smartphrases)

- Coordinate and attend JH PACT Telemed clinic to initiate patient education.

- Coordinate post-treatment patient follow-up appointments and labs.

- Develop and maintain patient educational and informational materials (e.g. smartphrases that outline treatment schedules or medication instructions).

- Liaison for the JH PACT Program.

- Coordinate with other Divisions and Departments regarding patient care and Program initiatives.

- Work with the Clinical Director to maintain current online laboratory and imaging testing protocols for the Program.

- Serve as an Epic nurse superuser and assist in training of other Program nurses and clinical support staff.

- Maintain records of referrals as requested by physician staff.

Minimum Qualifications

- Registered Nurse licensed in the State of Maryland or state where practicing.

- CPR/BLS certified.

- Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

- Two years clinical experience in an ambulatory (outpatient) setting preferred.
- Strong computer skills in an Electronic Medical record preferred.

Classified Title: Clinical Nurse   
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/03/ME  
Starting Salary Range: $66,215 - $116,130 Annually ($85,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5pm 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: JH at Greenspring Station  
Department name: SOM DOM Pulmonary   
Personnel area: School of Medicine