Nurse Clinician - Direct Care

Fairview is looking for a Nurse Clinician to join our Bone Marrow Transplant team (BMT) at our Fairview Riverside University Hospital in Minneapolis, MN. The BMT Nurse Clinician is an advocate for quality care and an inspirational and visionary role model for the advancement of professional nursing practice across the continuum of care. Provides direct patient care for the adult blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapy population, performing independent nursing interventions and applying approved and prescribed standards of care.

Partners with colleagues to achieve excellence in the delivery of patient care. The clinician promotes nursing professional practice through education, role modeling and clinical expertise. Competencies include organizational skills, clinical research support, ethical decision-making, fostering collaboration, consultation, clinical expertise and decision-making, excellent communication skills, flexibility and adaptability.

• Patient Care and Evaluation of Clinical Practice
• Provides greater than 50 percent direct patient care which may include treatments, counseling, promoting self‑care, or patient education.
• Identifies and defines problems and opportunities in practice.
• Analyzes practice initiatives accounting for safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, efficacy and patient and family centeredness which ultimately improves health care outcomes.
• Participates in designs and implements processes to evaluate outcomes or practice, practice patterns and systems of care within a practice setting and health care organization against national benchmarks to determine variances in practice, outcomes and population trends.
• Uses information technology and research methods appropriately to: inform and guide the design of databases that generate meaningful evidence, analyze data, design evidence based interventions, predict and analyze outcomes, identify gaps in evidence for practice in partnership with Advance Practice Nurse Leaders (APNL) and Nursing Professional Practice Leader (NPPL).
• Collaborates in the development of clear guidelines, performance standards, policies and procedures.
• Knowledgeable and articulate in the professional scope and standards of practice.
• Provides clinical decision support, advice and guidance to the clinical team by facilitating the transfer of research and best practice into clinical application.
• Executes monitoring and evaluation plan for process or quality improvement endeavors in nursing practice provided by NPPL or APNL.
• Collaborates with nursing staff and managers to coordinate human, environmental and material resources to ensure cost‑effective care.
• Consultation
• Employs consultative and leadership skills within and among professional teams to create change in healthcare, complex healthcare delivery systems and/or organizational issues.
• Consults to make recommendations for systems and structures to support individual/unit/service professional and clinical development.
• Demonstrates the ability to generate a broad array of options and nontraditional solutions.
• Seeks to understand others through inquiry versus making conclusions.
• Demonstrates ability to develop/build patient and partner relationships.
• Respects and values work, personal skills and diversity of team members.
• Supports others with risk taking regarding learning change and growth.
• States clear expectations, delivers feedback on performance and recognizes barriers that inhibit motivation.
• Negotiates toward optimal outcomes.
• Creates an environment to improve capacity for learning and adaptation to change.
• Uses advanced communication skills/processes that support open dialogue and shared meaning in leadership of quality improvement and patient safety…