Cardiopulmonary Patient Educator - Registered Nurse

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Description

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

As a Cardiopulmonary Patient Educator with CVS Health, you will have the opportunity to use your clinical skills to be an educator to your patients and their caregivers, helping them understand their complex Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) therapies by providing infusion training and clinical support.

** This is a direct-hire, full-time position **

In this role you will:

• Consult and collaborate with physicians, clinicians, pharmacy operations and the sales team to coordinate the patient’s plan of care.
• Work within a highly specialized area of nursing and enjoy the autonomy that comes from working within a home care service.
• Assist patients who are initiating or transitioning to infused or inhaled therapies for PAH.
• Develop deep relationships with patients and caregivers in a one-on-one setting.
• Have excellent written and verbal customer service skills and advanced computer skills in order to interact with key partners
• Participate in on-call as the business needs.

Travel:

• You can expect to work from home approximately 20-30% of the time when you are educating patients on how to administer their oral, or inhaled therapies.
• You will spend approximately 70-80% of your time visiting patients in-person when you are educating them on their infused therapies. About 80% of this time within a one-hour drive of Detroit. The remaining 20% of your travel time will primarily be within the Upper Peninsula of MI and into other states within our Central Region.
• Overnight visits will occur approximately once/month, but could be more occassionally
• Candidates must reside within one hour of a major airport
• Participate in the on-call rotation every 4-6 weeks
• Travel will be via car and airplane to see patients, support our sales team, and for training as needed.

You will have a uniquely rewarding setting to use your exceptional nursing skills. As a national leader in the home infusion field we seek those special RNs who not only possess strong clinical expertise with creative ideas but who also have the kind of deep compassion and sensitivity it takes to treat people in their homes.

Required Qualifications:

- Must live within one hour of a major airport.

- Registered Nurse with a current unrestricted license in the state of MI with ability to obtain additional licensure for multi-state service area

- Two years of experience in a critical care or acute care hospital setting providing high-tech infusions, or two years of high-tech home infusion experience.

- Ability to build positive business relationships with all levels of medical/clinical personnel.

- Ability to travel as noted in the position summary and as business needs require.

- Have and maintain current CPR certification.

- Possess a valid and current driver’s license and auto insurance.

- Participate in the on call rotation as determined by staffing and business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in caring for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension – PAH is great, but not required

- Home healthcare and pediatric experience is preferred, but not required

Education:

RN Diploma, Associates or B.S. degree in nursing

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. …