Primary Location
Location C
Department
Amb Svcs Pediatric Urology
Shift
Day (United States of America)
Schedule
Full time
Weekly Hours
32
FTE
0.8
Employee Status
Regular
Registered Nurse II – Complex Urology Outpatient
Department: Urology – Complex Surgical Program
Schedule: 32 hours per week
Shift: Monday–Friday, primarily daytime hours
Location: Primarily Burnet Campus, with rare travel to other locations
Make a Difference in the Lives of Children and Families
Are you an experienced, compassionate Registered Nurse who excels at care coordination and enjoys building lasting relationships with patients and families? Cincinnati Children’s is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse to join our Complex Urology Outpatient team, supporting children with complex urologic and multisystem conditions requiring specialized surgical care.
This unique opportunity is ideal for a nurse who enjoys coordinating care across specialties, navigating complex treatment plans, and serving as a trusted resource for families throughout their child’s healthcare journey.
You will join a collaborative team of four nurses who coordinate care for patients with complex surgical needs, many of whom return to Cincinnati Children’s for ongoing treatment over time. Working closely with urology, colorectal surgery, gynecology, and other specialty teams, you will help ensure seamless communication, continuity of care, and the best possible outcomes for every patient.
About the Role
This is primarily a complex care coordination position, with responsibilities divided between care coordination and scheduled clinic days. Monday through Thursday generally focus on coordinating care, managing patient needs, and communicating with families and providers. Fridays are typically dedicated to clinic activities.
The schedule offers some flexibility in start and end times based on clinic needs. Nurses generally work eight-hour days, with start times typically between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. The standard schedule is 32 hours per week, with flexibility to accommodate clinic responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Complex Care Coordination: Coordinate comprehensive care plans for pediatric patients undergoing complex urologic surgical interventions, ensuring continuity across outpatient visits, procedures, and follow-up care.
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Partner with urology, colorectal surgery, gynecology, advanced practice providers, and other specialists to coordinate care for patients with overlapping or multisystem conditions.
- Patient and Family Education: Provide preoperative and postoperative education, reinforce treatment plans, and help families understand next steps throughout the surgical care journey.
- Clinical Triage: Assess and respond to patient and family phone calls and electronic messages, including MyChart communications, providing appropriate guidance and escalating concerns when needed.
- Diagnostic and Surgical Coordination: Facilitate diagnostic testing, specialty referrals, surgical scheduling, and communication among the teams involved in each patient's care.
- Ongoing Patient Management: Monitor patient progress, anticipate care needs, address barriers, and coordinate follow-up for patients who require long-term, specialized surgical management.
- Clinic Support: Participate in scheduled outpatient clinic activities, collaborating with providers and the nursing team to support efficient workflows and high-quality patient care.
- Documentation and Quality Improvement: Maintain accurate, timely electronic medical record documentation and contribute to quality improvement initiatives that enhance care coordination, patient safety, and outcomes.
Qualifications
- Current Registered Nurse license in the state of Ohio or eligibility for Ohio RN licensure.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred, consistent with applicable position requirements.
- Strong clinical assessment, critical thinking, and care coordination skills.
- Excellent communication and patient and family education skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate care across multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience in pediatric nursing, outpatient care, surgical services, or complex care coordination preferred.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Commitment to family-centered care, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Why Join Cincinnati Children’s?
At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better. We believe in a holistic, collaborative approach to caring for patients and families while advancing science and discovery.
As part of our Complex Urology team, you will work alongside dedicated professionals who value teamwork, clinical excellence, and meaningful relationships with patients and families. You will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact by helping children with complex surgical conditions navigate their care with confidence and support.
If you are passionate about pediatric nursing, enjoy complex care coordination, and thrive in a collaborative outpatient environment, we invite you to explore this opportunity with Cincinnati Children’s.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Interprofessional Practice - Demonstrates consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice.
- Clinical judgment when performing caring practices - Synthesizes and interprets multiple sources of data; uses past experiences to anticipate problems; seeks interprofessional collaboration; recognizes and responds to complex situations. Leads efforts to improve documentation of the plan of care, care delivered, and outcomes of care. Has innate awareness of the patient and family's current and future needs, and fully engages them in the plan of care. Collaborates with family, other health care providers and community resources to develop comprehensive plans of care. Caring practices follow the patient's and family's lead; orchestrates processes to ensure patient/family's comfort and concerns are addressed. Promotes a healing environment for all health outcomes, including death. Expertly integrates age specific concepts into patient care, considers both the patient's chronological age and developmental level. Using self-management strategies, develops care goals and actions in partnerships with patients and families. Creatively modifies or develops patient and family education programs. Integrates patient/family education throughout delivery of care; evaluates effectiveness using teach back methods and by observing behavioral changes related to learning. Integrates strategies in the plan of care that support the patient's and family's transition to home.
- Compliance - Patient Services Staff - Sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards. Support leadership in Compliance efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital. Be mindful and judicious in monitoring safety and departmental policies and procedures. Ensure all individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis. Work with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify and share safety best practices. Be mindful of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicate safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
- Patient Care - Age Specific and Culturally Inclusive - Consistently integrates age specific and culturally inclusive concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.
- Uses systems thinking - Knows when and how to negotiate and navigate through the system on behalf of patients and families through care coordination. Intervenes and leads others to change systems and processes as appropriate to support optimal patient outcomes. Sustains an extensive understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards. Works with managers to lead efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital. Monitors and assists others to comply with safety and departmental policies and procedures. Ensures individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis. Is well-informed of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and assertively communicates safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members. Effectively coordinates team care delivery while in the role of charge nurse; anticipating planning for and mitigating unexpected circumstances.
- Collaborates with team using shared decision making - Invites inclusive resources when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes. Interacts confidently by promoting and expecting collaborative behavior in others. Mentors others to respect the contribution of the entire team. Is able to lead others to work collaboratively valuing the contributions of the various disciplines in patient/practice issues. Demonstrates leadership in the shared governance structure at the cluster or divisional level councils, committees, task forces or projects. Serves as chair for councils, committees, task forces or project work.
- Clinical inquiry & performance review to improve practice - Improves, deviates from, or individualizes standards and guidelines for particular patient situations or populations; questions and/or evaluates current practice based on patients' responses, review of the literature, research and education/learning; acquires knowledge and skills needed to address questions arising in practice and improve patient care. Creates practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Assists with development of competence in peers; formally, by precepting new employees, and informally, by sharing knowledge at the point-of-care. Demonstrates awareness of unit competency needs, providing leadership to improve competence of staff. Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal setting, for assurance of competence and professional development to promote safe and ethical practice using the nursing process. Precepts nursing peers and students. Facilitates learning for members of the healthcare team and the community. Takes a leadership role in working with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify, share, implement and evaluate safety best practices.
- Exhibits advocacy, moral agency and response to inclusion - Works on behalf of patient, family, and community; advocates from patient/family perspective, whether similar to or different from personal values; suspends rules - patient and family drive moral decision-making; empowers the patient and family to speak for/represent themselves; achieves mutuality within patient/professional relationships. Uses inclusive resources available both internally and in the community to enhance the experience of care for the various patient populations. Appreciates and incorporates differences, including alternative therapies into care; tailors care to the extent possible. Demonstrates efforts to grow self and others in cultural competence.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
- BSN from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution or MSN.
- 5+ years related experience is required.
- Active Ohio RN License. May be required to obtain other state licensure.
- Active certification and some require specialty certification
At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better. We believe in a holistic team approach, both in caring for patients and their families, and in advancing science and discovery. We strive to do better and find energy and inspiration in our shared purpose. If you want to be the best you can be, you can do it at Cincinnati Children’s.
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