Manager, Nursing (Research)

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The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Nursing (Research). The Manager, Nursing promotes and restores patients' health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area, directing and developing staff, collaborating with physicians and multi-disciplinary professional staffs, and providing physical and psychological support for patients and their friends and families. Oversees patient flow through designated clinical areas.

• Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.

• Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.

• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care, enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements, and to other governing agency regulations, and measuring health outcomes against standards.

• Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.

• Completes patient care requirements by assigning nursing and staff.

• Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.

• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and their friends and families.

• Promotes patients’ independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching and counseling patients, and reinforcing patients’ understanding of disease, medications, and self-care.

• Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.

• Maintains a safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing related procedures, rules, and regulations.

• Accounts for the collection of data to ensure performance improvement and optimal customer service standards.  

• Assures all staff meet mandatory continuing education requirements and yearly hospital based competencies.

• Provides insight on the unit(s) operations to nursing leadership to assist in the development of strategic planning and departmental expansion.

• Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures. 

• Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree of Nursing required. Master's degree preferred.

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing, with Florida licensure to practice as a registered nurse.

• Experience (minimum 3-5 years) in cancer clinical trials at a research institution and/or pharmaceutical company required.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association only.

• Certified Clinical Research Professional (CCRP) or Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) required or willingness to take certification within 6 months acceptable.

• Oncology Certification in Nursing (OCN) preferred; willingness to undertake certification acceptable.

• Demonstrated leadership abilities required.

• Thorough understanding of Good Clinical Practice guidelines, Code of Federal Regulations, clinical trials monitoring, regulatory compliance.

• Strong qualitative skills and knowledge of study design.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills are required and excellent verbal and written English communication skills are necessary to deal effectively with individuals both inside and outside the organization from diverse backgrounds.

• Proficient in computerized information systems; demonstrative expertise with Microsoft suite including Excel and Power Point.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines.

• Demonstrates commitment to department & institut