Clinical Coordinator RN - Oncology Office Practice - Mount Sinai Hospital - Per Diem Days
About The Position
The Clinical Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care based on nursing theory and research to a designated group of patients and significant others. In the oncology office practice, the nurse applies the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and organizational nursing standards to assess and manage patient needs, coordinate care with the interdisciplinary team, educate patients and caregivers, and support a positive patient experience. The role also contributes to quality and safety initiatives, operational resource management, accurate documentation, and professional development. Responsibilities may include charge nurse duties, precepting new staff and students, participating in shared decision-making and nursing committees, and advancing clinical competence and evidence-based practice.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN), or an ADN RN matriculated in a BSN program with an expected graduation date within one year.
- An ADN RN with nursing experience requires approval by the CNO.
- Relevant clinical competence in the assigned area of nursing practice; new graduates must have current knowledge of the nursing process and its application.
- Current New York State registered nurse license and registration.
- Basic Life Saver (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.
- Oncology RN experience.
Responsibilities
- Deliver patient care using Relationship Centered Care principles, the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and approved nursing standards.
- Assess and evaluate patient care needs, apply critical thinking, and use relevant assessment and intervention skills.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care.
- Prioritize patient care activities, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
- Educate patients and caregivers about care plans, transitions of care, health promotion, and disease prevention.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary care team.
- Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing Care Delivery Model and use material resources effectively.
- Model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and team collaboration.
- Consider patient values, preferences, cultural diversity, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care; establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
- Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions of care and initiate service recovery when concerns arise, escalating as needed.
- Conduct purposeful hourly rounding on assigned patients, addressing the 4 Ps.
- Provide safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, improvement opportunities, hazards, and gaps from best practice.
- Apply clinical skills and knowledge relevant to the patient population and contribute to quality improvement, evidence-based practice, research, and compliance activities.
- Document nursing practice using institutional information technology and comply with hospital, regulatory, legal, and care standards.
- Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
- Coordinate supply utilization and inventory sufficiency with nursing leadership; escalate material or staffing resource deficits.
- Use patient-focused and cost-effective approaches to equipment, staffing, supplies, and other resources.
- Support colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team; maintain professional, ethical, compassionate, and respectful conduct.
- Develop clinical competence and role-related knowledge through lifelong learning, scholarship, and innovation.
- Participate in specialty practice councils, nursing department committees, and unit initiatives.
- Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students; advance as a clinical leader, throughput facilitator, and unit resource.
- Articulate the value and application of research and evidence-based practice and participate in professional nursing organizations.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
