Clinical Nurse, Outpatient- Melanoma & Skin Center

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 at least two years of clinical nursing experience. Oncology experience is a plus.

Shift: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm

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

Hourly breakdown of salary range: minimum $32.69 - midpoint $50.48 - maximum $68.27

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.

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 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. 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.

Responsible and accountable for providing exemplary nursing practice and has an ethical and professional responsibility to contribute to innovation, improvement, and 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. Follows regulatory standards. Fosters an environment that challenges the status quo, embraces and promotes change.

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. Participates in assessing, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating the delivery of safe and effective patient and family care utilizing evidence-based and empirical outcome measurements.

Engages in problem solving 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. Fosters an environment conducive to Just Culture by holding self and staff members accountable. Participates in the evaluation of staff members' clinical performance through contributions to the annual evaluation and professional development processes.

Maximizes performance within the scope of practice to accomplish unit goals and achieve desired outcomes. Demonstrates effective communication, collaboration, conflict management, and resolution. 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.

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. Integrates…