Registered Nurse - Heme Heme Malig

Overview:Responsibilities:

• Implements, evaluates and modifies plan of care
• Assesses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and evaluates patients’ adaptation to health changes
• Develops a plan of care based on patients’ disease, symptoms, and response to treatment
• 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
• Refers patients, families and caregivers as appropriate to other clinical resources/professionals such as social work, home health care, clinical nutrition, etc.

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

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

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

• 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:

• Nursing degree.
• 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 Washington State nursing license.
• Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (or equivalent course, such as by the American Red Cross) and renewal required every two years.
• 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.
• 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.
• Critical thinking; the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge.

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

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