What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN Oncology Clinic position at ST JOHNS HEALTH?
Job Details
Job Location: Jackson, WY
Position Type: Full Time
Education Level: ADN/ASN
Salary Range: $38.00 - $57.00 Hourly
Job Shift: Day
Job Category: Nursing Jobs
Description
JOB SUMMARY
The RN-Oncology works collaboratively as an active member of the inter-professional team to provide therapeutic patient and family centered care. The RN-Oncology systematically and continuously collects and assesses data related to patient health status to develop, execute, and evaluate the plan of care. The RN-Oncology utilizes evidence to drive clinical decisions and practice related to individual and population health. The RN-Oncology establishes goals and strategies for meeting the care coordination, discharge, and/or continuing care needs across settings with the patient, family, and/or other care providers. The RN-Oncology considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and fiscal accountability in planning and delivering care. The RN-Oncology utilizes and demonstrates knowledge of research findings in cancer.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
•Assesses and evaluates patient data related to the behavioral, physical, physiologic, and psychosocial status of the patient utilizing interview, observation, and physical examination via in person and communication technologies.
• Executes nursing interventions across the care continuum in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and promoting positive patient outcomes by incorporating their cultural, spiritual, and other belief systems.
• Evaluates patient’s response to plan of care and research.
• Identifies learning needs of the patient and families and educates by adapting to patient and family learning style utilizing the teach-back method.
• Documents nursing assessment and interventions in the electronic medical record to reflect a comprehensive and integrated approach to patient/family care and clinical research.
• Performs telephone triage.
• Administers, monitors, and documents medications and therapies through a variety of routes
• Performs assessment, access, and maintenance of venous access devices.
• Performs phlebotomy procedures including starting peripheral IVs and drawing blood from midline catheters, peripherally inserted central catheters, and ports.
• Acts as a resource to other Cancer Clinic nursing staff and participates in the development, maintenance, and implementation of educational initiatives and policies and procedures.
Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
• Knowledge and experience documenting patient care in an electronic medical record
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Ability to make knowledgeable clinical assessments and judgments
• Ability to educate staff, patients, and families
• Ability to provide counseling and emotional support with compassion and respect for the individual
• Ability to provide support to the members of the care team (teamwork)
• Must possess initiative and ability to work independently
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of medical records and maintain patient and family privacy
• Demonstrates effective and respectful communication with patients, families, and the healthcare team
• Ability to facilitate multidisciplinary resolution of issues
• Maintains a level of professional development through continuing education, quality improvement initiatives, obtaining and sharing unit/organizational information/knowledge.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Education
Required: ASN and completion of the ONS chemotherapy administration course within 6 weeks of hire.
Preferred: BSN, Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN)
Minimum Education
Required: ASN and completion of the ONS chemotherapy administration course within 6 weeks of hire.
Preferred: BSN, Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN)
Minimum Work Experience
Required: Six months of RN experience
Required: Six months of RN experience
Preferred: Relevant oncology experience, chemotherapy experience, experience with Venous Access Devices (VADs) and IV skills
Required Licenses: Current RN License with authority to practice in the State of Wyoming. Current BLS at time of hire and ACLS required within 6 months of hire.
Required Licenses: Current RN License with authority to practice in the State of Wyoming. Current BLS at time of hire and ACLS required within 6 months of hire.
FUNCTIONAL DEMANDS
Working Conditions
Combination of office, exam rooms, and other clinical settings. Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, bio-hazards, toxic substances, medicinal preparations, and other conditions common to medical clinic setting. Frequent stressful situations. Approximately 50% sitting and 50% standing/ walking. 50% of the workday spent on a computer. Frequent verbal and written communication, frequent interaction with others including in person as well as via phone and/or video conferencing.
Physical Requirements
Adequate sight/hearing and other senses to perform job requirements. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds maximum with frequent lifting/and or carrying objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
Direct Reports: None
Reports to: Manager of Oncology
Internal & External Contacts:
Clinic Staff and providers, physician services administrative team, hospital and medical group leaders and staff, patients, families
LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
1. Approachability
- Is easy to approach and talk to
- Spends the extra effort to put others at ease
- Builds rapport well
2. Interpersonal Skills
- Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down and sideways, inside and outside the organization
- Builds appropriate rapport
- Uses diplomacy and tact
3. Process Improvement
- Is committed to continuous improvement through empowerment and management by data
- Creates a learning environment leading to the most efficient and effective work processes
4. Planning
- Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects and sets goals
- Breaks down work into the process steps and develops schedules and task/ people assignments
- Anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks
5. Industry Acumen
- Knows how the healthcare industry works; understands financial models for successfully running a hospital
- Pays attention to current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and developments in healthcare and how those could affect the organization
6. Managing Change
- Able to successfully navigate disruptive change with composure
- Can lead others through change by communicating effectively the reason and plans for change, helping them to deal with emotional response to change, and overcoming resistance to change
Qualifications
Salary : $38 - $57
