Registered Nurse Jobs

Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing direct care to oncology patients for the Los Angeles Cancer Network. This role provides patients with safe, quality care throughout their treatment and disease process as effectively as possible at all stages of, diagnosis to end of life. Helps patients manage and live with diagnosis, retaining autonomy and independence by using the most appropriate disease/ symptom/psychosocial management techniques.

Responsibilities:

• Monitors Coumadin levels and patient education
• Performs assessments on patients
• Encourages new chemo patients and families to utilize See Your Chart Portal
• Completes patient documentation on a timely manner
• Assists the Charge Nurse with daily operations
• Follows company process for billing verification before administering any medications
• Mixes chemotherapy and Administer Chemotherapy, hydration, and other medications under the direct supervision of a physician
• Always maintains clean work environment
• Patient Allergy verification
• Demonstrates knowledge of ambulatory infusion pump use and maintenance
• Participates in activities to plan, measure assess and improve the quality of patient care
• Attends meetings for continuing education to maintain currency of nursing license.
• Maintains skills, knowledge, and currency in administration of chemotherapy.
• Educates patients and their families about chemotherapy side effects
• Draws blood via port catheter or PICC line
• Schedules chemotherapy, hydration, injections, and bone marrows in the EMR

Key Competencies:

• Ability to assess nursing needs of acute and chronically ill patients through technology methods
• Ability to collaborate, set priorities, and organize work to meet deadlines, ensuring compliance with established processes, policies, and regulations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with patients, families, visitors, healthcare team, physicians, administrators, leadership, and others
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to seek out resources independently and work collaboratively
• Demonstrates exceptional assessment, critical thinking, and customer service skills
• Ability to maintain emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses
• Ability to multitask efficiently

Additional Requirements:

• Great Customer Service Skills
• Current CPR/BCLS certification
• Medical Terminology-Oncology/Hematology Specific
• Chemotherapy/Biotherapy certification through ONS or must obtain within (12) months of hire
• Basic typing, keyboard and computer skills
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
• Excellent IV skills
• Current California RN license
• Access port-a-caths and picc lines
• Previous Oncology/Hematology experience preferred