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Staff Nurse - Primary Care Part-time Days

Northwestern Medicine · Woodridge, IL · Part time · Health Care Provider

Posted Sep 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

The posting mentions the six medication rights and reducing medication errors. Tell me about a near miss you caught.

What they are checking: Honesty about error and what changed afterward

Describe a time you had to deliver an abnormal result to a patient over the phone.

What they are checking: Clear, calm delivery inside the scope of what a nurse may say

The posting talks about assessing physical, psychosocial, safety, spiritual and cultural needs. Give me an example where the social side changed the plan.

What they are checking: Whether the whole-person assessment is real or a checkbox

What would you do

This is a 32-hour part-time day role in primary care at Woodridge. How does that schedule fit what you're looking for?

What they are checking: Whether part-time hours are the goal or a compromise they'll leave over

A patient calls saying their blood sugar has been running in the 300s for three days. Walk me through your call.

What they are checking: Phone triage judgment and knowing when to bring someone in

How do you handle a patient who has not taken their blood pressure medication in two months and does not think they need it?

What they are checking: Teaching without lecturing, and finding the real reason

A physician's schedule is running ninety minutes behind and the waiting room is full. What do you do?

What they are checking: Managing the room and the patients rather than just absorbing it

About the work

Primary care nursing runs heavily on the message queue. How do you work through patient messages and results without letting the urgent ones sit?

What they are checking: Triage discipline in a queue that never empties

What's your part in making sure a referral or a prior authorization actually goes through?

What they are checking: Ownership of loose ends in an outpatient practice

What vaccines, screenings and standing orders have you worked under in a primary care office?

What they are checking: Concrete outpatient scope rather than general nursing

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The full job description

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This role is 32 hours a week. The Staff Nurse Physician Group reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards. • A clinically competent, registered, professional nurse who prescribes, delegates and coordinates nursing care to the acutely ill patient through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation and evaluation. Effectively interacts with patient, significant others, and other health team members, while maintaining ANA standards of professional nursing practice. Also responsible for phone triage, abnormal test result delivery and corresponding care instructions. Responsibilities: • Performs all aspects of patient care by utilizing evidenced based practice in a manner which optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors. • Follows the six medication rights and reduces the potential for medication errors, administering medications based on the age and clinical condition of the patient. • States rationale for clinical decisions based on critical thinking. • Assesses, analyzes, validates and integrates data to assess patients' physical psychosocial, rehab, safety, learning, spiritual, cultural, age-specific, special risk and self-care needs. • Identifies patient care needs, problems and variances. Identifies patient care needs, problems and variances and incorporates into care plan. • Identifies the patient's learning needs, abilities, preferences and readiness; also, identifies support systems, coping mechanisms and barriers to learning. • Explains procedures, therapies and treatments to patient and family, evaluates and documents patient and family response to teaching. • Uses appropriate resources to provide education. • Involves patient/family in the formation of the plan of care. • Develops, implements and updates an individualized plan of care based on identified patient care needs. Includes nursing, teaching, continuum of care and discharge planning. • Adequately assesses and reassesses pain. Utilizes appropriate pain management techniques. Educates the patient and family regarding pain management. • Identifies and uses the results of quality improvement activities to initiate changes in nursing practice and in the healthcare delivery system. • Participates in shared governance, committee work, and practice/department projects. Required : • Current experience (within past five years) or new nursing graduate (within past two • years) • State Licensed Registered Nurse for State of employment • CPR – Basic Life Support Preferred: • Bachelors of Science in Nursing • One year experience in pertinent clinical specialty • Proficiency in second language Additional Information Northwestern Medicine is an equal opportunity employer (disability, VETS) and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status. Background Check Northwestern Medicine conducts a background check that includes criminal history on newly hired team members and, at times, internal transfers. If you are offered a position with us, you will be required to complete an authorization and disclosure form that gives Northwestern Medicine permission to run the background check. Results are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and we follow all local, state, and federal laws, including the Illinois Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person. Benefits We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical, emotional, and financial well-being while providing protection for unexpected life events. Click on or copy and paste URL to your browser to view detailed benefits information NorthwesternMedicine Career Page https://jobs.nm.org/benefits Please refer to the Benefits Eligibility by Employment Classification to determine benefits eligibility for job postings. If sign-on bonus is included in a job posting eligibility is as followed: Internal employees and rehires who left Northwestern Medicine within 1 year are not eligible for the sign-on bonus. Exception : New graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed clinical position as a Registered Nurse at NM may be eligible.

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