Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cancer Center

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cancer Center

New York, NY

Full-Time/Regular

NYU Langone Health is a leading academic medical center committed to delivering high‑quality patient care.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Cancer Center. The successful candidate provides and integrates clinical leadership for a designated population, participates in the design, implementation, and evaluation of practice standards that improve the delivery of high‑quality, comprehensive, and individualized, patient‑centered care. The role includes patient care, consultation, research utilization, and education, supporting the institution’s philosophy and goals.

• Uses expertise as clinician, educator, consultant, and researcher in order to influence outcomes by increasing the quality and cost‑effectiveness of outcomes for patients, nurses, and organizations.
• Provides clinical leadership in assessing, implementing and evaluating the care provided to a targeted patient population of patients and their significant others according to professional and departmental standards.
• Acts as a professional role model to all levels of staff by incorporating expertise and related experience into all aspects of patient care and the nursing process.
• Facilitates a strong, collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
• Develops, promulgates, and fosters the implementation of process standards for the delivery of patient care relevant to area of practice.
• Fosters ongoing patient and family education in an effort to facilitate effective clinical management across the continuum of care consistent with the individual needs of the patients and goals of the institution.
• Supports and interprets the mission, philosophy, standards, goals, and objectives of the institution and department.
• Promotes patient, physician, and other consumer satisfaction by facilitating excellent customer service by all members of the health care team.
• Serves as a role model for staff in considering needs and behaviors of specific patient age groups.
• Assures compliance with standards and regulations promulgated by all applicable agencies.
• Provides a suitable plan for optimal availability of resources for safe, competent, and effective patient care delivery.
• Practices prudent fiscal management of resources.
• Promotes own professional growth, development, and expertise in the role.
• Creates unit milieu supportive of the education and development of the nursing staff and other health care providers consistent with the goals of a learning organization.
• Identifies and addresses learning needs of professional and ancillary staff members.
• Utilizes resources to plan and meet unit and individual staff learning needs.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of education and development activities in achieving desired outcomes.
• Serves as support and resource for the education of other health professionals.
• Develops system for identifying, tracking, and managing patients in a designated population or service.
• Contributes to the development of systems for collecting and analyzing data relevant to program evaluation.
• Monitors practice patterns for trends in outcomes, costs, and resource utilization for the designated patient population.
• Leads or supports quality and performance improvement initiatives consistent with departmental programs.
• Develops and implements action plans in response to internal and external benchmarking data, problems, findings, issues, incidents, and complaints.
• Leads or participates in interdisciplinary quality improvement programs and cultivates environment that promotes patient/significant other, physician, and staff satisfaction.
• Applies research findings that support development of evidence‑based practice.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research efforts.

• Certified and Registered as Clinical Nurse Specialist by New York State Education Department under one of the following specialty practice areas:
  Adult Health, Adult‑Gerontology, Oncology, Pediatrics, Neonatal, and Psychiatry/Mental Health.
• Master’s Degree in clinical nursing…