Overview

The Fairview Southdale Medical Building, located in Edina MN, is looking for a direct care Nurse Clinician to join our Breast Imagining team! Are you ready to make a different in people's lives?

The 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 a specified population. Partners with colleagues to achieve excellence in the delivery of patient care to designated population groups. The clinician promotes nursing professional practice through education, role modeling and clinical expertise. The clinician leads the planning, development and implementation of best practices and standard of care through the development of programs, policies, guidelines focused on continual quality improvement. Competencies include coaching and facilitation skills, research, ethical decision-making, fostering collaboration, consultation, clinical expertise and decision-making, excellent communication skills, flexibility and adaptability, creating linkages and efficient and effective use of human, financial and other resources.

This is a 0.9FTE (72 hours every two weeks) working out of our Edina location with occasional coverage at Fairview Ridges in Burnsville. We offer a generous benefits package including medical, dental, paid time off, retirement options, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment program, and more. Check out more of our benefits information here: www.fairview.org/noncontract

Responsibilities Job Description

Patient Care and Evaluation of Clinical Practice

• Provides greater than 50 percent direct patient care which may include treatments, counseling, promoting self-care, patient education, or administration of medications.

• 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.

• Disseminates findings from evidence−based practice and research to improve healthcare outcomes.

• 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.

• 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 initiatives in health care systems.

• Communicates findings to key stakeholder and follows up with others to ensure closed loop communication.

Systems Leadership

• Leads the development and implementation of integrated systems and processes to promote competency, excellence in professional and clinical practice and collaborative working relationships across the continuum of care.

• Provides input into budget for clinical practice requirements and professional standards.

• Participates and/or leads the development and review of policies and procedures across the continuum of care.

• Participates with leadership in the development of operational plans as required and works collaboratively across programs and entities as required.

• Employs a variety of strategies to engage staff adoption of change.

• Supports and role models behaviors consistent with a healthy work environment.

Collaboration

• Establishes an environment which promotes individual growth and job satisfaction and nurtures professional practice.

• Builds effective teams by including key stakeholders within and across departments and entities.

• Demonstrates expertise in group facilitation - define goals, roles and relationships; provides feedback and manages group to meet agreed upon goals.

• Addresses issues in a timely manner.

• Demonstrates sensitivity to diverse organizational cultures and populations, including patients and providers.

Coaching

• Supports the clinical and professional development of colleagues through mentoring and role modeling.

• Participates in staff development and professional education supporting nurse continuing competence.

• Provides mentorship as required and promotes and consults on evaluation of nursing practices, services and programs.

• Works with education staff to develop implement and evaluate education strategies and programs supporting nursing practice.

• Provides education to individuals, families, groups and communities.

• Role models effective conflict management.

Ethical Decision-Making

• Role Model & fosters professional accountability in self or others.

• Demonstrates flexibility in managing multiple demands and competing priorities efficiently.

• Shares knowledge and expertise with peers.

• Role models positive relationship and clinical practice behaviors.

• Seeks and incorporates feedback regarding own practice.

• Applies ethical principles when analyzing and assisting with concerns or issues.

Qualifications

Required

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or related field. If bachelors is not in nursing then must have a master’s degree in nursing.

Experience

• 2 years nursing experience

License/Certification/Registration

• Current MN RN License

Preferred

Education

• Advanced Degree is nursing or related field

Experience

• 3 or more years nursing experience

• Oncology experience preferred

License/Certification/Registration

• Certification in Specialty Area

EEO Statement

EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status