Clinical Nurse, Outpatient- Melanoma & Skin Center

MD Anderson Cancer Center Texas Houston, TX, US

The Ben Love/El Paso Corporation Melanoma and Skin Center is committed to helping you win the fight against all types of skin cancer. Our focus on finding cures has led to promising new immunotherapy treatments like ipilimumab, which uses your body's defense system to find and destroy melanoma cells.

MD Anderson Cancer Center has an Outpatient Clinical Nurse opportunity in its Melanoma and Skin Center. The Ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Nursing and at least two years of clinical nursing experience. Outpatient and Oncology experience is a plus.

Shift: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm

Salary range: $68,000 - minimum - $105,200 midpoint - $142,500 maximum

Hourly breakdown of salary range: minimum $32.69 - midpoint $50.58 - maximum $68.51

What's in it for You:

Work with world-class experts in melanoma and dermatology at MD Anderson-gaining highly specialized experience in skin oncology, procedures, and complex patient care.

Enjoy stable, weekday hours (Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm) in a supportive, collaborative clinic environment that values professional growth, autonomy, and lifelong learning.

Competitive pay and clear career pathways, with a salary range of $68K-$142K and opportunities to engage in evidence-based practice, innovation, and leadership development.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Transformational Leadership and New Knowledge, Innovation, and Improvement Transformational Leadership: The Clinical Nurse is responsible for the provision of care to patients and families consistent with the unit's values, beliefs, and behaviors to meet the demands of the future.

Participates in daily unit operations to achieve and maintain the financial goals by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently. Provides quality and fiscally responsible patient care. Proactively anticipates patient and family needs in collaboration with the Charge Nurse, Clinical Nurse Leader, and Nurse Manager. Utilizes available material resources responsibly for direct patient care. Practices autonomously within the scope of professional nursing practice - patient care competency. Participates in change initiatives. Demonstrates loyalty and commitment to the unit's inter-professional team. Incorporates the process of change in daily practice. Fosters peer relationships and participates in coaching and mentoring. Supports an environment that values and respects the variation of staff and patients - patient care competency.

New Knowledge, Innovation and Improvements: The Clinical Nurse is responsible and accountable for providing exemplary nursing practice and has an ethical and professional responsibility to contribute to innovation, improvement, and new knowledge.

New Knowledge - Applies new and existing evidence in patient care standards, incorporating new knowledge, innovations, and improvements in clinical practice and the patient care delivery system - professionalism competency. Complies with regulatory standards. Fosters an environment that challenges the status quo, embraces and promotes change. Innovation - Practices within the established patient care delivery system, consistent with the Professional Practice Model. Demonstrates proficiency in the application of technology in providing care to patients and families. Improvement - Participates in assessing, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating the delivery of safe and effective patient and family care utilizing evidence-based and empirical outcome measurements.

Structural Empowerment: The Clinical Nurse engages in problem solving in order to meet unit goals and achieve desired outcomes. Provides feedback to the Nurse Manager, Charge Nurse, and Clinical Nurse Leader through the evaluation of performance of clerical and clinical staff. Supervision: Fosters an environment conducive to Just Culture by holding self and staff members accountable. Evaluation: Participates in the evaluation of staff members' clinical performance through contributions to the annual evaluation and professional development processes. Productivity: Maximizes performance within the scope of practice to accomplish unit goals and achieve desired outcomes. Demonstrates effective communication, collaboration, conflict management, and resolution - oral communication competency. Contributes to an innovative environment where strong professional practice flourishes and positive patient and family outcomes are achieved. Strengthens practice, builds strong relationships and develops partnerships to improve patient and family outcomes on the unit

Exemplary Professional Practice and Empirical Outcomes Exemplary Professional Practice: The Clinical Nurse applies exceptional professional practice in relationship with patients, families, and the inter-professional team, and understands how new knowledge and evidence is applied. Practices evidence-based, quality clinical nursing consistent with current nursing research, the Professional Practice Model, the Nurse Practice Act of the State of Texas, institutional and national practice standards. Adheres to the use of unit's standard operating procedures. Delivers care using a systematic approach to achieve measurable, outcome focused, patient care; identifies, implements, and evaluates opportunities for improvement. Communicates and collaborates effectively with leaders, departments, other disciplines, staff members, patients, and families - professionalism competency. Integrates ethical principles into clinical practice. Maintains and integrates knowledge of current clinical practice and technological proficiency; provides clinically competent, compassionate, direct patient care consistent with the Professional Practice Model. Seeks opportunities to broaden knowledge relevant to the Clinical Nurse role and healthcare through engagement in professional organizations and commitment to life-long learning Empirical Outcomes: The Clinical Nurse is responsible for seeking out and maintaining knowledge regarding relevant empirical outcomes, including the impact of quality improvement initiatives and institutional best practices on the patient population, nursing workforce and institution, as reflected in unit and institutional metrics.

Nurse will assist with triaging and will assist in covering and triaging patient, other care team calls and resolve within allotted times.

Melanoma and Skin Center Nursing will provide nursing care and teaching to patients undergoing excisions, biopsies and other dermatological procedures. Duties included, but not limited to patient vitals, assessments, medication administration, assisting with procedures, pre op and post teaching, wound care and documentation. Provide coverage to other providers in clinic in the absence of assigned clinical nurse/MA. Late and staggered shifts coverage are required.

Other Duties As Assigned

EDUCATION

Required: Graduation from an accredited school of professional nursing.

Preferred: Bachelor's Degree Nursing.

Work Experience

Required: None

Preferred: Two years of nursing experience. Oncology experience is a plus.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Required: Current State of Texas Professional Nursing license (RN). Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification if working in the following department: ASC Post Anesthesia (600761).

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) if working in the following departments: ASC Post Anesthesia (600761) or Pedi - Child & Adolescent Center (113200).

Preferred: OCN - Oncology Nurse Certification, Certification in specialty practice.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS: All clinical nurses with less than one year of registered nurse (RN) work experience will be required to participate in the Clinical Nurse Residency Program.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, paid time off, retirement, tuition benefits, educational opportunities, and individual and team recognition.

This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening. The ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.

It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.http://www.mdanderson.org/about-us/legal-and-policy/legal-statements/eeo-affirmative-action.html

Additional Information

Requisition ID: 182140
Employment Status: Full-Time
Employee Status: Regular
Work Week: Days
Minimum Salary: US Dollar (USD) 68,000
Midpoint Salary: US Dollar (USD) 105,200
Maximum Salary : US Dollar (USD) 142,500
FLSA: exempt and eligible for overtime, paid at a time and a half rate
Fund Type: Hard
Work Location: Onsite
Pivotal Position: Yes
Referral Bonus Available?: Yes
Relocation Assistance Available?: Yes

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