The OHSU Digestive Health Center (DHC), located at Portland South Waterfront, is a multidisciplinary center offering services in the ambulatory setting for General Surgery, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Bariatrics and Nutrition. The GI team is supported by a team of providers, as well as a nurse, medical assistant and scheduler that work closely together to provide excellent care for complex patients. The patient experience begins with their initial referral and can include clinic visits and teaching, procedures, and ongoing complex longitudinal care.

The General GI Care Coordinator is a member of a multi-disciplinary team with primary responsibility for direct and indirect professional nursing care of medicine patients that have complex gastrointestinal diseases.  The patients managed by this team are medically complex with functional GI disorders and nutritional deficiencies requiring supplemental nutrition, including total parental nutrition. Other complex and chronic GI diseases, requiring long term, longitudinal care from their gastroenterologist comprise much of this patient population.

 

• • Responsibilities include the care coordination and case management of individuals in the outpatient clinic.
  • S/he will provide clinical support services to faculty and APP in the Gastroenterology Division.
  • The nurse Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating comprehensive care for patients and will be a key contributor to ensuring that patients are guided through all stages of their treatment at OHSU. This patient population can be labor intensive given their complex diagnoses and multi-disciplinary care. This translates to increasingly complex care coordination.
  • The nurse coordinator will be the core of a multi-disciplinary patient care team, which includes physicians, APP, RN, MA, and PAS-R support.
  • The nurse coordinator will have specialized knowledge and skills in complex gastroentestinal disease management.
  • This position serves as a coordinator for patients undergoing sequenced multidisciplinary treatment, and at times patients who travel from long distances from home.
  • Responsibilities include but not limited to care coordination, patient assessment, triage, patient education, medication management, discharge and admit planning, and clinical support for the GI clinic faculty providers.
  • This position will also participation in quality improvement, medical record review and  will follow existing protocols determining appropriate patient scheduling. 
  • Must be able to deal with competing needs and priorities
  • Requires ability to triage and assess complex patient symptoms/condition
  • Requires excellent time management skills

Minimum requirements for all RNs:

• Current, unencumbered Oregon RN license
• Current BLS, required at time of hire
• 1-2 years inpatient nursing experience with complex medical focus or in ambulatory with chronically ill or medical complex patient population

• EPIC, Ambulatory
• Experience in the field of GI medicine

Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.