Nurse Director Ambulatory Oncology

Principal Duties And Responsibilities I. Scholarship

• Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.
• Actively supports the development of new nursing knowledge.
• Assures the use of and adherence to evidence-informed practice/standards for nursing care.
• Assures the practice environment supports reflective practice, e.g. through the use of narratives, and meets the needs of the relevant patient population.
• Professional development – self:
  • Participates in self-performance appraisal process in ongoing manner.
  • Seeks feedback from his/her professional colleagues.
  • Shares strengths and areas to be developed with associate chief nurse and other colleagues as appropriate.
  • Maintains necessary clinical and managerial expertise through evidence-based practice.
  • Participates in service- and department-wide developmental initiatives.
  • Demonstrates commitment to lifelong learning, e.g. through active participation in professional organizations.
• Conducts timely assessments of staff learning needs and assures programs/projects are in place to address them, including collaboration with the Professional Development Managers and the center for Nursing Excellence.
• Facilitates opportunities for staff to precept and teach others.

• Serves as a clinical leader/coach/mentor to staff.
• Promotes staff participation in annual goal setting for his/her patient care area[s] and the Department of Nursing.
• Serves as a leader within the community of nursing, in accordance with the standards of the discipline of nursing, including adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics.
• Assures appropriate personnel to meet the needs of the designated patient population.
• Designs and implements staffing patterns responsive to a dynamic care environment.
• Interviews, hires and oversees the orientation of new employees considering departmental, divisional, local and individual employee needs as basis of decisions.
• Provides ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding performance to staff members.
• Delegates authority and/or responsibility to others as appropriate while maintaining 24x7 accountability.
• Demonstrates consistent leadership in the maintenance of a fair and just culture.
• Assures staff participation in local-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and initiatives.

• Provides formal and informal opportunities for staff to develop personal career goals and plans for their achievement.
• Provides ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding professional development to staff members.
• Encourages and recommends staff participation in unit-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and organizational initiatives.

• Creates an environment that celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a caring, therapeutic, healing, patient- and family-centered care environment.
• Assures the presence of interventions to promote/assure a patient and family centered healing environment.
• Assures appropriate staffing plan to meet patient care needs on a continuous basis.
• Promotes an inclusive environment supportive of a patient- and family-centered care for a diverse community.

• Serves as a leader of the clinical discipline, committed to excellence in nursing care and positive patient outcomes.
• Accountable for contributions to planning, implementing and evaluating the Department of Nursing Quality Plan, inclusive of nurse sensitive indicators and patient satisfaction metrics.
• Actively participates in Brigham and Women’s Hospital quality improvement programs, assuring clear articulation of the quality agenda by all staff in his/her patient care area(s) and/or specialty patient populations.
• Develops local-based quality agenda using performance improvement methodologies in collaboration with department and hospital-based quality leaders assuring an environment of continuous quality improvement, improved patient and systems outcomes.
• Actively translates quality improvement findings into daily operations and strategic planning for the clinical area.
• Communicates and translates…