Registered Nurse, Endocrine at Boston Children's Hospital summary:
A Registered Nurse specializing in endocrinology, responsible for providing education and support to patients and families with endocrine conditions. Duties include triaging referrals, facilitating clinic flow, administering injections, and following up on treatment progress. This role requires strong communication and organizational skills, working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team to deliver family-centered care.
This Staff Nurse will be responsible for:
- Working with patients and families with acute and chronic general endocrine diagnosis.
- Providing telephone, in-person, and telehealth education and support for wide variety of endocrine issues.
- Triaging patient referrals with primary care physicians and/or families requesting endocrine appointments.
- Providing support to physicians to facilitate ambulatory clinic flow.
- Administering various injections and providing training on devices such as growth hormone for use at home.
- Providing clinical information and acting as a liaison between families and their physicians.
- Following-up with patients and families to evaluate progress after making medication and treatment changes.
- Working collaboratively to provide family-centered care as a member of a multidisciplinary team that provides expert care.
To qualify, you must have: - A Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree
- 1-3 years nursing experience (1 required, 3 preferred), pediatric RN experience also preferred
- Strong telephone communication, critical thinking and organizational skills as well as the ability to work as a team
- Comfort providing telephone support
- Ability to work 40 hours scheduled as four 10 hour days (8am-6:30pm , Monday- Friday) in the Boston location