APN, Cancer Center
Company: Hackensack Meridian Health
Location: Hackensack
Posted on: April 28, 2024
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Job Description:
Overview
The APN performs the role utilizing the patient-centered
coordinated care model demonstrated through the following
competencies: leadership, direct clinical practice,
consultation/collaboration, coaching/guiding, research, and ethical
decision making. Oncology experience required.
Responsibilities
Leadership1. Participates in decisions affecting APRN practice and
in opportunities to advance nursing practice within the
institution.2. Seeks opportunities to promote HackensackUMC APRN
practice recognition locally, nationally, and internationally at
conferences, round table discussions, manuscript publications in
journals and texts, and conference presentations (poster and
podium).3. Provides excellence in the patient experience through
modeling Service Excellence Standards.4. Communicates a shared
vision with the department of patient care and the department of
specialty practice.5. Participates in APRN interviewing,
credentialing, and peer review process as requested.6. Participates
in a minimum of one professional specialty organization.7. Supports
the nursing blueprint by providing evidence of practice outcomes.8.
Displays support of the institutional pillars through systems
management, change management, and scholarly practices.9. Ensures
consistency with HackensackUMC nursing protocols, standards of
care, and accomplishment of disease specific quality indicators.
Evidence-based Practice (direct clinical practice)10. Applies
evidence and value-based practices to achieve positive outcomes for
patients and families.11. Evaluates patient/family transition of
care planning for resource utilization, cost, quality, and
promotion of self-management for chronic health maintenance.12.
Demonstrates clinical expertise by utilizing advanced assessment
and leadership skills.13. Evaluates current protocols and standards
of care for translation of 'best practice' into clinical
practice.14. Provides culturally diverse and educationally
appropriate health management education.15. Facilitates
patient-centered coordinated care through participation at daily
interdisciplinary team rounds and staff RN patient rounding.16.
Supports organizational and department of patient care strategies
through annual professional cascading goals.17. Coordinates the
development of evidenced-based practice protocols and standards of
care that include interventions and treatments to achieve desired
outcomes.18. Aligns practices with the organizational pillars.19.
Analyzes patterns of variance in practice and makes recommendations
for evidence based practice changes to improve patient outcomes.20.
Serves as a clinical resource to nursing staff, patients/families,
and other multidisciplinary team members across the continuum to
evaluate complex patients and identify appropriate interventions
and evaluation of outcomes.21. Identifies practice gaps and
initiates practice changes supportive of evidence-based practice
'best practices' with nursing staff within area of practice and
population.22. Participates in policy/procedure reviews for
updating with current evidence-based and value-based practices.
Consultation/Collaboration23. Acts as a resource to staff for
addressing clinical, process, and system opportunities for
improvement which promote excellence in care and clinical
outcomes.24. Serves as a member of organizational and departmental
meetings, work-groups, and committees as requested representing
APRNs and/or the department of patient care.25. Builds credibility
with medical staff as nursing experts for patient care, quality of
care, and the profession of nursing.26. Collaborates with medical
staff leaders to support nursing-led protocols to enhance the
nurse's ability to function at their highest level of education and
skill applying 'lean' system and change management principles.27.
Acts as a mentor for APRN and graduate students of other
disciplines.28. Acts as a clinical resource for evidence based
practice.29. Identifies educational needs of patients/families and
collaborates with other multidisciplinary team members to implement
appropriate teaching materials. Coaching/Guiding30. Coaches nursing
and other disciplines on applying evidence-based and value-based
care.31. Participates in enhancing RN practice, applying expert
clinical skills, through staff RN patient rounding and making
recommendations for improvement in inter-shift 'hand-off'
communications for assessments, nursing quality indicators, and
core measure assessments.32. Facilitates, coordinates, and
participates in formal or informal nursing educational programs as
clinical experts.33. Creates a shared vision for patient and
family-centered care by applying shared governance concepts to
engage staff and other disciplines in decision-making.34. Promotes
a collaborative work environment which supports the organizational
mission, behavior expectations, values, and pillars (quality,
people, finance, growth, and service). Research35. Utilizes and
disseminates relevant research findings through clinical practice,
education or consultation.36. Promotes innovation within clinical
practice by seeking opportunities to bring new clinical knowledge
into practice.37. Actively engages in research as a primary
investigator or co- investigator.38. Acts as a mentor and or
reviewer for research proposals.39. Disseminates research findings
to enhance the practice of nursing by participating as presenters
at conferences locally, nationally, and internationally and through
publications. Ethical decision-making40. Identifies ethical care
issues and coordinates interdisciplinary collaborative meetings to
resolve those issues.
Qualifications
Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:1. Graduate of
an NLN/AACN accredited program in nursing.2. Master's degree.3.
Maintains clinical competencies through participating in continuing
educational programs (contact hours per years), and clinical
practice as mandated by Board of Nursing and national certification
body.4. Experience in relevant patient care setting or as
regulations dictate. Licenses and Certifications Required:1. NJ
State Professional Registered Nurse License.2. Advance Practice
Nurse License.3. AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP
Certification.4. Maintains certification as APN in New Jersey.5.
Maintains National or Board Certification as appropriate in area of
specialty. Licenses and Certifications Preferred:
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network who may have current openings that fit your skills and
experience.
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