RN CLINICAL NURSE IV/TEAM LEADER - 5 EAST ONCOLOGY

Company: UNC Health Care
Location: Raleigh
Posted on: February 14, 2019

Job Description:

5 East is a 31-bed Medical/Oncology unit. We care for a wide variety of patients and administer blood transfusions and chemotherapy/biotherapy.

Education and Professional Development - Coordinates, designs and implements educational programs to meet identified learning needs of

staff, patients and families. Promotes and ensures staff participation in continuing education, orientation, competency, in-service and staff

development offerings. Participates in development and implementation of competency initiatives. Serves as an area of specialty

consultant in the design of educational programs. Participates in development of and provides clinical expertise for patient education

materials. Promotes professional growth of self and staff. Promotes a conducive environment for learning and provides educational

experiences for students.

Evaluation - Evaluates patient progress and revises plan accordingly. Maintains accountability for carrying out components of the plan. Works with manager to ensure care on unit is accordance with policies and procedures.

Implementation - Promotes an environment that values diversity, open communication, teamwork and exceptional service. Ensures

that appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients and families for assigned shift. Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration

in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes. Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members. Demonstrates

and role models clinical expertise in specified patient population and shares expertise with other staff. Promotes and ensures the use of

the nursing process to provide quality patient care. Assesses and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to

ensure that they are met. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.

Leadership - Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff. Provides feedback to

Manager/Supervisor and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff. Assists Nurse Manager by providing

assigned staff with performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals. Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give

continual feedback to staff and colleagues. Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.

Assessment - Synthesizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial and

educational needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication with others. Assesses and anticipates

discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the

patient and their own needs. Works with manager to demonstrate specialization needs to serve the patient population.

Planning - Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent

implementation by staff. Provides input about trends related to program development, space needs and fiscal realities. Ensures

appropriate and adequate clinical staffing and skill mix to meet patient care needs on own shift and upcoming shift. Effectively uses

clinical and financial information to assist Nurse Manager to establish and meet budgetary goals. Collaborates with Nurse Manager to

implement strategies to increase revenue and cost-effectively manage personnel, supply and equipment resources. Evaluates the impact

of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes. Assists Nurse Manager to ensure that internal and external regulatory standards are met or exceeded.

Research and Performance Improvement - Collaborates with Nurse Manager to evaluate research that is applicable to practice and

promotes changes in standards of care as appropriate. Guides research development and implementation. Utilizes resources in asking

research questions and applying appropriate research methods Shares knowledge with colleagues through publication, presentations or

other means .Develops, implements and evaluates new and creative approaches to meeting goals. Leads, participates and promotes

performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care opportunities.

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