Nurse Clinician - Direct Care - Oncology

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is seeking a Nurse Clinician to support the Masonic IV Infusion Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This full-time, salaried role provides direct patient care to a designated population and partners with colleagues to deliver excellent care. The clinician serves as an advocate for quality care and a role model for advancing professional nursing practice across the continuum of care. The role promotes nursing practice through education, clinical expertise, and role modeling, and leads the planning, development, and implementation of best practices, standards of care, programs, policies, and guidelines focused on continual quality improvement. The typical schedule is Monday through Friday, approximately 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Clinic needs may occasionally require an earlier start, as early as 7:00 to 7:30 a.m. Key competencies include coaching and facilitation, research, ethical decision-making, collaboration, consultation, clinical expertise and decision-making, communication, flexibility, adaptability, creating linkages, and effective use of human, financial, and other resources.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or a related field; if the bachelor’s degree is not in nursing, a master’s degree in nursing is required.
At least 2 years of nursing experience.
Minnesota Registered Nurse (RN) license.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in nursing or a related field.
3 years of nursing experience.
Certification in a specialty area.

Responsibilities

Provide more than 50 percent direct patient care, including treatments, counseling, self-care promotion, patient education, and medication administration as appropriate.
Identify and define problems and opportunities in practice, and analyze initiatives for safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, efficacy, and patient- and family-centeredness.
Participate in designing and implementing processes to evaluate practice and care outcomes against national benchmarks and identify practice variances and population trends.
Use information technology and research methods to inform database design, analyze data, develop evidence-based interventions, predict and analyze outcomes, and identify evidence gaps in partnership with nursing leaders.
Disseminate findings from evidence-based practice and research to improve healthcare outcomes.
Collaborate in developing guidelines, performance standards, policies, and procedures, and provide clinical decision support that translates research and best practices into clinical care.
Execute monitoring and evaluation plans for nursing practice process and quality improvement initiatives provided by nursing leaders.
Coordinate human, environmental, and material resources with nursing staff and managers to support cost-effective care.
Consult and use leadership skills to recommend systems and structures supporting clinical and professional development and to advance change in healthcare settings.
Build patient, partner, and team relationships; facilitate open dialogue, negotiation, feedback, and closed-loop communication with stakeholders.
Lead development and implementation of integrated systems and processes that support competency, professional and clinical excellence, and collaboration across the continuum of care.
Provide input into clinical practice budgets; participate in or lead policy and procedure development and review; and collaborate on operational plans.
Engage staff in adopting change and role-model behaviors consistent with a healthy work environment.
Build effective teams, facilitate groups toward agreed-upon goals, address issues promptly, and demonstrate sensitivity to diverse organizational cultures and populations.
Mentor and role-model for colleagues, support staff development and continuing competence, and work with education staff to develop, implement, and evaluate nursing education strategies and programs.
Provide education to individuals, families, groups, and communities, and role-model effective conflict management.
Work with nursing leaders to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice, advance nursing through relevant research activities, and identify research opportunities.
Model professional accountability and positive clinical and relationship behaviors; manage competing priorities, share expertise, seek feedback, and apply ethical principles when addressing concerns.