What are the responsibilities and job description for the CLIN NURSE III-CLINIC position at Covenant Health?
Overview
Registered Nurse,TOG Lenoir City
Full Time, 80 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift
As a member of Covenant Health and Thompson Cancer Survival Center, Thompson Oncology Group is part of the region’s largest cancer-fighting network, with more imaging centers, more board-certified physicians and surgeons, and more cancer and radiation centers closer to where you call home. All Thompson Oncology Group practices are committed to excellence and ongoing quality improvement.
Thompson Oncology Group (TOG) is a leader in medical oncology services and provides patients access to all proven, drug-based treatments and the latest clinical trial medicines. Our team of board-certified, fellowship-trained medical oncologists and certified advanced practice providers deliver on-site care and treatment, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormone therapy, at affiliated infusion centers throughout our region.
Position Summary:
Provides professional nursing care within an assigned unit; coordinates care planning with other disciplines. This position is the team nurse for TOG Lenoir City. The team nurse will triage in-office patients, respond to clinical messages and complete telephone triage, perform ongoing health assessments to identify challenges to treatment tolerance and supportive care measures, assists with verbal order entry for physician as directed, etc. May float to other TOG locations.
Recruiter: Sandra Simmons || ssimmon6@covhlth.com || 865-374-5368
Responsibilities
- Correlates patient history and support systems within hospital care/nursing home care.
- Assesses needs of patient and family.
- Develops and initiates plan of care, involving patient and family.
- Recommends interventions.
- Evaluates plan of care.
- Clinical expertise and knowledge is such that individual can resolve complex patient/management/physician problems without supervision.
- Demonstrates competence in performing critical skills to include appropriate delivery of care according to the age-specific needs of the population served.
- Leads process improvement initiatives in their own unit or participate in facility team.
- Precepts new employees/students or attends formal preceptor workshop and is willing to precept. Reviews clinical performance of preceptee with unit leader or clinical instructor.
- Provides four contact hours of educational activities, excluding basic patient education.
- Contributes to development and evaluation of unit orientation program.
- Supervises LPNs, Nursing Assistants, HUCs, Techs, and sitters.
- Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience:
Minimum of three (3) years professional experience.
Licensure Requirement:
Valid Tennessee RN license. Yearly infection control, fire, safety and CPR inservices are required.
Continuing Education:
Twenty (20) hours required annually (10 to enhance clinical expertise); or Fifteen (15) hours required annually, plus ACLS certification; orTen (10) hours required annually, plus specialty certification; or Ten (10) hours required annually, plus ACLS instructor.
RN license
