Highlights
Responsibilities include telephone triage, in-basket management, patient education, symptom management, and assisting providers during clinic visits. The RN will care for adult and geriatric oncology patients before, during, and after treatment, as well as patients attending follow-up, pre-operative, and post-operative visits.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New Haven, CT |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Oncology for a travel nursing job in New Haven, Connecticut.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Oncology
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 10/16/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 10 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse (RN) – Oncology Practice Nurse to provide care in an outpatient oncology clinic. This is a practice nurse/ambulatory oncology role and is NOT an infusion position.
The RN will care for adult and geriatric oncology patients before, during, and after treatment, as well as patients attending follow-up, pre-operative, and post-operative visits. Responsibilities include telephone triage, in-basket management, patient education, symptom management, and assisting providers during clinic visits.
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care to adult and geriatric oncology patients in an outpatient clinic.
- Perform telephone triage and assess patient symptoms and concerns.
- Manage and respond to in-basket messages.
- Assist physicians and advanced practice providers during clinic visits.
- Support new and return patient appointments.
- Care for patients with medical and surgical oncology diagnoses, including neuro-oncology.
- Provide patient and family education and emotional support.
- Assess and manage common oncology-related symptoms and treatment side effects.
- Recognize and communicate abnormal laboratory values and changes in patient condition.
- Provide IV therapy as needed, including hydration, and manage implanted ports/central lines within scope.
- Follow appropriate infection-control and oncology safety practices.
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
- Float between specialties as needed within scope of practice.
Requirements
- Active RN license; pending license accepted but must be active before start.
- Minimum 2 years of RN experience.
- Oncology experience required.
- Ambulatory/outpatient clinic experience required.
- Telephone triage experience required.
- Practice Nurse experience preferred.
- ONS/ONCC certification required.
- BLS required.
- Travel nursing experience required; first-time travelers not accepted.
- Strong communication, assessment, and patient education skills.
- Epic experience preferred/used at the facility.
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About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.