Registered Nurse (RN) - Oncology Infusion Clinic

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Park Ridge, IL

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center - Infusion: Park Ridge is seeking a full-time Registered Nurse for their Oncology Infusion Clinic. This role involves providing continuity of care, developing relationships with patients and their multidisciplinary teams, and navigating patients through their diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. The nurse will conduct nursing assessments, collaborate on care plans, provide education, and support patients and families by addressing psychosocial needs and identifying barriers to care. The position is Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, and requires a Registered Nurse license and a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, typically with 5 years of nursing experience including assessments, care plan development, and patient education.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• Typically requires 5 years of experience in nursing that includes performing nursing assessments, care plan development, and educating patients.

Nice To Haves

• Oncology Outpatient experience, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
• Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care.
• Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care.
• Navigates patients and family members throughout the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care.
• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.
• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior