Oncology Infusion Services Nurse Manager

Department Overview

The CHH2 Adult Ambulatory Oncology Infusion Clinic at OHSU primarily serves patients within Hematology Oncology, Medical Oncology and Classical Hematology. We collaborate with KCI Ambulatory Oncology Clinics, Dietitians, Pharmacy, Social Work, Case Management and other members of the multidisciplinary health care team to provide exceptional oncology care for our patients and community. Our teams support programs that include, but are not limited to, the Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pump program, Phase I Clinical Trials, and the OHSU Cellular therapy programs. Patient Populations: Hematologic Malignancies: Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma, Allogeneic/ Autologous Transplant, CAR-T, TIL, DLI, etc. Medical Oncology: Sarcoma, Head and Neck, Breast, Lung, GI/GU, Prostate, etc. Classical Hematology: Bleeding disorders, clotting disorders, anemias, white blood cell disorders, platelet disorders. Other: Our infusion unit serves a variety of populations requiring interventional treatments only available at the CHH2 Ambulatory Oncology Outpatient Infusion Unit.

Function/Duties of Position

The Oncology Infusion Services Nurse Manager will be responsible for managerial and supervisory functions of infusion nurses at the Center for Health and Healing.  Position will function primarily on day shift hours with weekend coverage in collaboration with the Nurse Management team.  The Nurse Manager will partner with the interdisciplinary care team to ensure effective delivery of quality clinical patient care and compliance with administrative and clinical policies and procedures.  This position will support staff RNs through daily operations of patient care delivery.  In addition this position will perform managerial activities including hiring, performance evaluations, employee mentoring, project management and roll out of quality and safety initiatives, ensure adherence to hospital and clinical standards of performance, and human resource management.

Leadership

• Demonstrates leadership practices that influence others to achieve the mission, vision, goals and objectives of Patient Care Services and OHSU. 
• Promotes a culture of patient and family engagement and patient safety.
• Actively supports and promotes a shared governance model that encourages staff participation in the development of clinical standards that is collaborative, collegial and utilizes current trends and data in evidence based practice.
• Works to enhance health care of patients through interdisciplinary activities, such as education, consultation, rounding, shared governance, and formal defect analysis.
• Communicates effectively with all members of the health care team, utilizing negotiation and conflict skills as appropriate.
• Provides direction to enhance the effectiveness of the multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary team.
• Develops innovative solutions and applies strategies to obtain appropriate resources for nursing initiatives.
• Promotes activities that assist others, as appropriate, in becoming informed about cost, risks, and benefits or care, or of the plan and solution.
• Mentors other registered nurses and colleagues as appropriate.

Scientist

• Provides informal and formal practice and performance feedback to clinical staff, supporting their positive growth and development through their experiences.
• Promotes and upholds the use of evidence based practice standards as found in OHSU policy and procedures through active surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice and nursing services, analyzing appropriate internal and external data and information to identify opportunities, for improving services and patient outcomes.
• Works to achieve quality benchmarks for patient safety measures.
• Actively seeks feedback from others on individual performance within the healthcare team, using self reflection to promote growth.
• Participates in process improvement based on strategic quality and safety initiatives set by the organization, nursing, and individual unit.

Practitioner

• Functions as a proficient clinician for a selected group of patients.
• Advocates for patients and families within the health care team to assure that positive patient outcomes are achieved.  Works to achieve institutional goals regarding patient education.
• Supports orientation program, in conjunction with the Professional Practice Leader, for newly hired employees on the unit.
• Facilitates new employee assimilation to the unit culture on the off shift, ensuring a smooth transition and appropriate clinical and emotional support.
• Monitors the level of resources utilized in service delivery.
• Achieves fina