Registered Nurse - Outpatient - Cancer Center

A-Line Staffing is now hiring a Registered Nurse – Outpatient Cancer Center . This will be full time.

• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm
• Pay Rate: $50.00-60.00 an hour paid weekly
• Benefits : available to full-time employees after 90 days of employment

Job Responsibilities:

• Plan, implement, coordinate, and evaluate patient care consistent with established clinical standards and practices within an outpatient cancer treatment center
• Assess patient health status through interviews, review of medical history, and ongoing evaluation.
• Identify patient and family educational needs and provide teaching materials and instruction.
• Provide psychosocial support and guidance to patients and families.
• Support daily clinical operations and patient care coordination.
• Manage medication refill requests from pharmacy phone lines and accurately document information in patient charts.
• Coordinate consultations, diagnostic testing, procedures, referrals, and follow-up appointments.
• Triage patient phone calls and document all relevant clinical information.
• Facilitate communication between patients, families, and the interdisciplinary care team.
• Assist patients with accessing community resources and supportive services.
• Collaborate effectively with physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and other healthcare professionals.
• Serve as a clinical resource and mentor to LPN/LVNs and medical assistants.
• Participate in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of nursing experience in an outpatient setting caring for adults with chronic illnesses.
• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the practicing state.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.

INDKS

• Ensure compliance with requirements of third party payer
• Assume principle responsibility for total care of assigned patients in the assigned area
• Draw blood for lab work for consumers
• Initiate health care training and education to the patient/family as required while supporting and fostering the goals of the Hospital and the Department of Nursing
• Implement the patient's plan of care
• Perform general nursing duties in all departments with adequate supervision
• Determine requests from health care providers for: Extention of outpatient benefits and Professional Association of Treatment Homes(PATH)placement
• Initiate admission assessment screening tool
• Demonstrate competence in performing basic drug calculations./li
• Conduct thorough safety search of the patient
• Provide medical screening to determine need for immediate medical services
• Adhere to policy and procedure regarding all aspects of medication safety
• Provide linkage to appropriate community resources, referral to appropriate care services, and communicate with providers in order to reduce health disparities and improve health care outcomes
• Evaluate patient care through collaborative efforts with health team members in accordance with the nursing process and the standards of care and practices
• Manage and complete assigned work plan objectives and projects in a timely manner
• Participate in management staff meetings
• Identify the physical, psycho social and environmental needs as evidenced by documentation, clinical record, case conference, team report and evaluations
• Coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team
• Providing outpatient nursing services and treatments to a wide variety of consumers
• Perform patient rounds at least every 2 hours