Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cancer Center

Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cancer Center. In this role, the successful candidate:

• Provides and integrates clinical leadership for a designated population based on a specialized knowledge base and participates in the design, implementation, and evaluation of practice standards that improve the delivery of high quality, comprehensive, and individualized, patient centered care.
• Includes the traditional components of patient care, consultation, research utilization and education with the aim of upholding the philosophy and goals of the institution, department of nursing and the clinical service.
• The specialist role is to understand the organization, implement practice initiatives, and uphold practice standards.

Job Responsibilities

Uses expertise as clinician, educator, consultant, and researcher in order to influence outcomes by increasing the quality and cost-effectiveness of outcomes for patients, nurses, and organizations.

• Provides clinical leadership in assessing, implementing and evaluating the care provided to a targeted patient population of patients and their significant others according to professional and departmental standards.
• Acts as a professional role model to all levels of staff by incorporating expertise and related experience into all aspects of patient care and the nursing process.
• Facilitates a strong, collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
• Develops, promulgates, and fosters the implementation of process standards for the delivery of patient care relevant to area of practice.
• Fosters ongoing patient and family education in an effort to facilitate effective clinical management across the continuum of care consistent with the individual needs of the patients and goals of the institution.
• Serves as a role model for staff in considering needs and behaviors of specific patient age groups.
• Affirms compliance with standards and regulations promulgated by all applicable agencies.
• Promotes patient, physician, and other consumer satisfaction by facilitating excellent customer service by all members of the health care team.
• Supports and interprets the mission, philosophy, standards, goals, and objectives of the institution and department.

Minimum Qualifications

• Certified and Registered as Clinical Nurse Specialist by New York State Education Department under the following specialty practice areas: Adult Health, Adult-Gerontology, Oncology, Pediatrics, Neonatal, and Psychiatry/Mental Health.
• Master's Degree in clinical nursing practice.
• Certification as clinical nurse specialist by a national certification organization in related specialty area.
• At least four years of clinical nursing practice in the care of patient population served, ability to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes in an organized fashion which addresses patient/family satisfaction.
• Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills, effective communication skills, and creative problem solving; understands the domains of the Magnet Model and implementation strategies pertinent to this specialty area of practice.
• Consistent evidence of ability to effectively work as a consultant to all levels of staff.
• Previous demonstration of ability to facilitate group processes and work cohesively with an interdisciplinary team.
• Membership in pertinent professional and/or specialty organizations.
• Physical stamina, manual dexterity, visual and aural acuity to perform responsibilities.

Required Licenses

• Clinical Nurse Specialist, Registered Nurse License-NYS, Basic Life Support Cert