Nurse Practice Specialist

Job Description:

1. Clinical Practice:

• Demonstrates excellence in research nursing practice.
• Identifies current trends in health care and their implications for conducting cancer research and optimizing care of research subjects.
• Applies innovative approaches to solving complex problems.

2. Education:

• Plans and delivers relevant education related to research and research nursing to internal and external clients.

3. Expert consultation:

• Provides expert consultation to colleagues to promote positive patient care and research outcomes. Supports and facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration across departments and settings in which clinical trials are conducted as requested.
• Analyzes clinical and non-clinical variables to anticipate the feasibility of clinical trials and their impact on clinical operations and patient care across the MGB Cancer Satellites and Network.
• Acts as a resource to colleagues and consumers, providing consultation at the unit, program, service, administrative, and community level(s).
• Provides consultation related to the development of metrics for measuring productivity and efficiency of research teams.

4. Quality Improvement and research:

• Participates in activities that will positively affect patient care, research and patient care outcomes.
• Continually evaluates quality and safety performance, identifies improvement opportunities, and supports continuous quality improvement initiatives.

5. Personal and professional growth: Demonstrates accountability for ongoing personal/professional development

• Maintains and updates clinical knowledge and skills based on current nursing and health care practices.
• Identifies own learning needs and goals. Designs a plan to meet them.
• Takes responsibilities for leadership and participation on committees and task forces of the DFHCC, CCPO and the hospital relevant to on-going projects.
• Participates in activities that foster peer support and networking
• Fulfills professional role through involvement in professional organization activities, presentations, and publications.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Nursing required.
• Current Massachusetts RN License required.
• NP/CNS experience preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of oncology research experience required

Clinical Nurse Specialist Requirements

a. Graduation from a graduate degree program with a clinical practicum designed to prepare the graduate for practice as a CNS that is approved by a national accrediting organization for academic programs acceptable to the Board; and

b. Successful completion of, at minimum, core content at the graduate level in advanced assessment, advanced pathophysiology and advanced pharmacotherapeutics.

c. Current CNS certification granted by a Board recognized certifying organization

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Nursing Practice Specialist Requirements

a. Master's degree in Nursing.

b. Relevant professional experience in oncology nursing specialty.

c. OCN or AOCNS/AOCN Certification desired.