Clinical Nurse Coordinator (Rn) – Supportive Care Clinics

Overview:Responsibilities:

• Refers patients, families and caregivers as appropriate to other clinical resources/professionals such as social work, home health care, clinical nutrition, etc.
• Develops a plan of care based on patients’ disease, symptoms, and response to treatment
• Implements, evaluates and modifies plan of care
• Integrates research and evidence based knowledge into clinical practice
• Educates patients, families, and caregivers on disease processes, treatment, side effects and symptom management
• Coordinates with inter-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care
• Assesses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and evaluates patients’ adaptation to health changes

• Caregiver support
• Education patients and families: chemotherapy, central lines, injections, home care
• Result reviews
• Assessment of needs for additional supportive care resources
• Dressing changes, medication administration, injections
• Prescription refills
• New patient orientation
• Telephone and email symptom triage

• Supportive care referrals
• Coordination of outside clinical care
• Ensuring continuity of care with outside providers
• FMLA paperwork, disability paperwork, Ferry passes
• Collaboration with research team for patients on trial

• Attend regular team meetings with provider and nursing teams
• Coordinating patient schedules with clinic team
• Coordination of care with ancillary services
• Real-time management and escalation of issues in clinic
• Delegation of tasks to appropriate team members
• Collaboration with infusion RN and other members of the care team to assure patient needs are met

• Document all nursing care activities accurately and in a timely fashion.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of patient privacy rights.
• Active participation in continuing education, departmental projects, committee work, and quality improvement initiatives

Qualifications:

• Additional certification may be required dependent upon department.
• Ability to effectively provide information by checking what information the person knows already, giving small amounts of information at a time, using clear terms and avoiding jargon, avoiding detail unless it is requested, checking for understanding, and pausing and waiting for a response.
• Ability to develop clinical judgment.
• Ability to communicate effectively by looking and listening for cues, asking open-ended questions, exploring cues, using pauses, screening responses, and clarifying response.
• Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (or equivalent course, such as by the American Red Cross) and renewal required every two years
• Current Washington State Registered Nurse license.
• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• Critical thinking; the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge
• Time Management skills; the ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently
• Ability to effectively listen by using reflecting, acknowledging, summarizing, empathizing, and paraphrasing skill.

• Previous telephone triage experience
• Previous outpatient clinic experience
• Good communication skills
• 2 years of oncology nursing experience
• OCN (Oncology Certified Nurse) or BMT RN
• BSN prepared nurse
• Takes initiative
• Skilled at multitasking and organization

The hourly pay range for this position is from $38.67 to $73.48 and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications. Registered Nurses are paid on a step-scale basis and are also eligible for shift differentials and other pay premiums such as advanced degree, preceptor and certification.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks), and partially paid sabbatical leave (up to 6 months).

Our Commitment to Diversity: We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Employer. We are committed to cultivating a workplace in which diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability (physical or mental), marital or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, or membership in any other legally protected class. We are an Affirmative Action employer. We encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds to apply and desire priority referrals of protected veterans. If due to a disability you need assistance/and or a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to our Employee Services Center at [email protected] or by calling 206-667-4700.