RN Oncology Mercy Specialty Clinic

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Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual or potential health problems. This includes establishing an intentional therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and a patient and family. As a leader and the integrator of care, the professional nurse has the responsibility, authority, and accountability for planning, coordinating and evaluating the patient's care needs.

Focuses on patients receiving care in a specialized outpatient care setting, playing a critical role in coordination and delegation of care. Individuals in this role will work in an outpatient clinic setting.

Principle Responsibilities

• Assessment.
  • Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
  • Collects and prioritizes data in a systematic and ongoing process that involves the patient, family, other health care providers and environment as appropriate.
  • Integrates data relevant to the situation to identify needs, patterns and variances.
  • Uses appropriate evidence based assessment techniques and instruments in data collection.
• Diagnosis.
  • Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
  • Interprets assessment information to identify each patient's needs relative to age, developmental stage and culture.
  • Formulates, revises and resolves nursing diagnoses that reflect the current patient status.
  • Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family and other health care team members.
  • Documents nursing diagnoses in compliance with the patient care guidelines.
• Outcomes Identification.
  • Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
  • Establishes, in the collaboration with the family, patient, realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available resources and plan for continuity of care.
• Planning.
  • Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
  • Develops an individualized plan considering patient characteristics or the situation as appropriate in conjunction with the patient, family and others.
  • Establishes a plan that provides for continuity of care.
  • Incorporates evidence based nursing practice takes into consideration current statutes, rules and regulations when developing the plan of care.
• Implementation.
  • Implements the identified plan.
  • Implements interventions in a safe, timely, appropriate manner.
  • Utilizes evidence-based interventions and treatments specific to the diagnoses as appropriate.
  • Coordinates implementation of the plan of care if appropriate
  • Documents interventions according to documentation guidelines.
• Evaluation.
  • Evaluates the patient's progress towards attainment of the outcome.
  • Evaluates the patient's/family's understanding of and response to the plan of care.
  • Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care.
  • Involves the patient, family, and health care team members in the evaluation process when appropriate.
  • Documents revisions in diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care according to documentation guidelines.
• Quality of Practice.
  • Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
  • Participates in quality improvement activities related to nursing practice.
  • Incorporates available QI data to improve nursing practice and outcome.
• Education.
  • Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.
  • Participates in educational activities related to nursing practice.
  • Acquires and applies the knowledge gained from educational experiences to current nursing practice.
• Professional Practice Evaluation.
  • Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and regulatory guidelines.
  • Engages in self-evaluation of practice on a regular basis, identifying strengths and goals for professional development.
  • Obtains informal feedback regarding one's own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Collegiality.
  • Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues, and others.
  • Shares knowledge and skills in practice settings.
  • Provides immediate and ongoing positive and constructive feedback to colleagues regarding their performance.
  • Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
• Collaboration.
  • Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
  • Partners with others to effect change and generate positive outcomes through knowledge of the patient or situation.
• Ethics.
  • Acts in an ethical manner.
  • Maintains a therapeutic and professional patient-nurse relationship with appropriate professional role boundaries.
  • Serves as a patient advocate assisting patients in developing skills for self-advocacy
  • Uses available resources to help formulate ethical decisions.
• Research.
  • Integrates research findings in practice.
  • Utilizes the best evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions.
• Resource Utilization.
  • Incorporates factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact on practice in planning and delivering patient care.
  • Utilizes resources related to standards of care in a safe, effective and ethical manner.
  • Manages resources to assure they will be accessible to other in the future.
• Leadership.
  • Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
  • Functions as a professional role model.
  • Promotes a positive work environment.
  • Participates in shared decision-making.
• Environmental Health.
  • Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
  • Attains knowledge of environmental health concepts, such as implementation of environmental health strategies.
  • Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks for workers and healthcare consumers.
  • Communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction strategies to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues and communities.
• Charge Nurse (only when acting in this role).
  • Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation so the patient and family needs are met and resources are efficiently utilized in a safe manner.
  • Promotes an environment that encourages individual growth, nurtures professional practice and fosters teamwork.
  • Collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership and other disciplines.
• Preceptor (only when acting in this role).
  • Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs and plans appropriate learning experiences.
  • Demonstrates ability to implement an individualized orientation plan for the orientee.
  • Demonstrates ability to validate clinical competence of orientee.
  • Facilitates development of organizational and prioritization skills of orientee.
  • Demonstrates ability to evaluate interpersonal sills of orientee.
  • Serves as a professional role model.
  • Facilitated socialization of orientee into the organization and work group.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Associate's or Vocational degree graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Where department allows, new graduate hires must be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing which is inclusive of clinical rotations in an acute care setting (American Association of Colleges of Nursing or National League for Nursing)
• Internal clinic employees who have functioned successfully as a CMA or LPN with a minimum of 3 years may be considered from an accredited school that does not have clinical rotations where department allows
• 0 to 2 years RN experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• 0 to 2 years specialty experience

Licenses/Certifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse - MN Board of Nursing required if working in the state of MN upon hire
• Licensed Registered Nurse - WI Dept of Safety & Professional Services required if working in the state of WI upon hire
• May require both state licenses based on the services provided at the location hired
• BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required per American Heart Association guidelines within 30 Days
• ACLS-BLS Tier 2 - Allina Health required positions that conduct cardiac stress tests and monitor sedation
• RN-C in department specialty preferred
• ANCC depending on hiring department within 1-1/2 Yrs required
• Additional certifications may be required depending on specialty

Physical Demands
Medium Work*:
Lifting weight Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently