Registered Nurse - Professional Practice Coordinator

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

 

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

 

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. These values are grounded in and expressed through the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an anti-racist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, anti-racism and inclusion.

 

The Registered Nurse is a member of an interdisciplinary care team. This role provides patient centric care and is primarily responsible for nursing assessment and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. In addition to the essential functions noted in the Registered Nurse job description, the Professional Practice Coordinator (PPC) will be responsible for onboarding and orientation of clinical staff, guiding continuing education, providing staff with opportunities for professional growth and development, functioning as an educational resource and subject matter expert for staff, promoting improvement initiatives and processes, supporting and implementing evidence-based practice standards, supporting unit-specific needs, and providing direct patient care in an RN capacity. This position works collaboratively with Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, frontline staff, multi-disciplinary healthcare teams, and organizational leadership.

 

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and facilitate new hire orientation curriculum
• Support professional growth and development for frontline staff by supplying resources, organizing and teaching classes and demonstrations, and providing educational opportunities
• Function as unit-based education and practice resource
• Assess professional nursing practice and intervene when knowledge gaps are identified to promote standardized, evidence-based nursing care
• Contribute to systemwide initiatives by supporting change management and providing unit-based expertise
• Support students and learners
• Actively create, evaluate, and maintain up-to-date policies, procedures, and staff and patient education materials to reflect evidence-based standards for clinical practice and research
• Actively collaborate with leadership to set organizational goals, unit goals, implement process improvements, and measure outcomes
• Serve as a consultant for Electronic Health Record improvement & optimization as a subject matter expert
• Participate in or lead committees and workgroups to support organizational practice
• Support unit-specific research implementation as needed
• Assist in investigation and response to incident reports filed in Patient Safety Net
• Provide direct patient care in a unit-based RN capacity per RN job description

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree
• CITI Training – Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Research (required within 6 months of hire)
• ONS Chemotherapy Provider Card (required within 6 months of hire) if required by unit
• Critical thinking and clinical judgement: the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discerning, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge
• Time management skills: the ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently and prioritize competing activities
• Multidisciplinary coordination: ability to organize and facilitate work groups and engage multidisciplinary stakeholders across the organization
• Communication skills: ability to communicate effectively by looking