Registered Nurse - Burn and Wound Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona at Valleywise Health System
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Job Description
Advanced Clinical Nurse
Location: Valleywise Health
Department: Ambulatory Services
Reports To: Nurse Manager / Executive Director of Nursing
Why You’ll Love This Role
Are you ready to elevate your nursing career and make a lasting impact? As an Advanced Clinical Nurse at Valleywise Health, you do more than provide exceptional, age-specific care—you serve as a clinical leader, a patient advocate, and a champion for health equity. Working closely with physicians and multidisciplinary teams, you will deliver comprehensive, meaningful healthcare to a beautifully diverse patient community. This role isn't just about managing daily care; it’s an invitation to drive quality improvement, mentor ancillary staff, and grow your leadership skills in a forward-thinking ambulatory environment.
What You’ll Do (Your Impact)
- Deliver Expert Care: Perform comprehensive patient assessments, administer medications, and design personalized care plans tailored to our patients' unique needs.
- Be a Patient Champion: Act as a dedicated advocate and educator, ensuring patients and their families feel heard, supported, and empowered.
- Lead and Inspire: Provide indirect supervision and mentorship to ancillary team members, fostering a collaborative and supportive unit culture.
- Drive Clinical Excellence: Participate in team-building activities and lead quality improvement initiatives to push our professional practice forward.
- Manage with Precision: Efficiently complete and process all clinical documentation in alignment with Valleywise Health policies.
What We Are Looking For
- A Skilled Professional: You possess the advanced clinical skills and sharp judgment needed to navigate a fast-paced ambulatory environment.
- A Cultural Connector: You thrive in a diverse healthcare setting and are passionate about delivering cost-effective, high-quality care to all consumers.
- A Growth-Minded Leader: You are eager to step into leadership opportunities, champion change, and continuously improve clinical outcomes.
- Flexibility: You are adaptable and open to standby or on-call time as needed to support your team and patients.
- Requires a Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Nursing.
Experience:
- Must have at least one (1) year of recent acute care hospital RN experience that demonstrates an understanding of the required knowledge, skills and abilities; or if completed the New Grad RN program at Valleywise Health then must have at least one (1) year of Valleywise Health experience as a RN and be in good standing.
- Must possess a current, valid AZ RN license, temporary AZ RN license, or valid compact RN licensure for current state of practice.
- Must be in good standing with the issuing Board of Nursing.
- Requires a BLS card obtained through an American Heart Association (AHA) training center upon hire.
- In addition, certification or continuing education may be required based on area of practice:
- Burn Center Clinic: Must have ACLS upon hire or transfer. You must obtain PALS within six (6) months. Must obtain ABLS within one (1) year.
- Ability to work with culturally diverse people is a must.
- Bilingual is preferred.
- Must have excellent communication, time management and customer service skills.
- Requires basic computer word processing skills (e.g. formatting, editing, printing, composing email, internet searches, etc.) to be able to successfully navigate through an electronic medical record using a computer.
- Requires the ability to read, write and speak effectively in English.