Professional Practice Coordinator - Apheresis

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states.

Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

The Registered Nurse is a member of an interdisciplinary care team. This role provides patient centric care and is primarily responsible for nursing assessment and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

In addition to the essential functions noted in the Registered Nurse job description, the Professional Practice Coordinator (PPC) will be responsible for onboarding and orientation of clinical staff, guiding continuing education, providing staff with opportunities for professional growth and development, functioning as an educational resource and subject matter expert for staff, promoting improvement initiatives and processes, supporting and implementing evidence-based practice standards, supporting unit-specific needs, and providing direct patient care in an RN capacity.

This position works collaboratively with Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, frontline staff, multi-disciplinary healthcare teams, and organizational leadership.

This position will be 1.0

FTE/full-time, Monday-Friday.

• Assesses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and evaluates patients’ adaptation to health changes
• Develops a plan of care based on patients’ disease, symptoms, and response to treatment
• Educates patients, families, and caregivers on disease processes, treatment, side effects and symptom management
• Coordinates with inter-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care
• Refers patients, families and caregivers as appropriate to other clinical resources/professionals such as social work, home health care, clinical nutrition, etc.
• Implements, evaluates and modifies plan of care
• Integrates research and evidence based knowledge into clinical practice

The PPC will have the following primary responsibilities:

• Plan, develop, and facilitate new hire orientation curriculum
• Support professional growth and development for frontline staff by supplying resources, organizing and teaching classes and demonstrations, and providing educational opportunities
• Function as unit-based education and practice resource
• Assess professional nursing practice and intervene when knowledge gaps are identified to promote standardized, evidence-based nursing care
• Contribute to systemwide initiatives by supporting change management and providing unit-based expertise
• Support students and learners
• Actively create, evaluate, and maintain up-to-date policies, procedures, and staff and patient education materials to reflect evidence-based standards for clinical practice and research
• Actively collaborate with leadership to set organizational goals, unit goals, implement process improvements, and measure outcomes
• Serve as a consultant for Electronic Health Record improvement & optimization as a subject matter expert
• Participate in or lead committees and work groups to support organizational practice
• Support unit-specific research…