RN/Registered Nurse - Masonic Infusion

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring an RN for the Masonic Infusion specialty within the Advanced Treatment Center at the Clinics and Surgery Center on the University of Minnesota East Bank Campus. The Masonic Cancer Clinic is a cancer research center whose specialized care teams provide prevention, detection, and treatment services. The clinic emphasizes a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive environment, with opportunities for career growth and work-life balance. This position is approved for 0.8 FTE (64 hours every two weeks) and consists of 8-hour shifts starting between 7:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Rotating weekend coverage is required approximately every 10–12 weeks. The RN Infusion performs independent nursing interventions and implements prescribed plans of care in an ambulatory care setting. Responsibilities include assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating nursing care for assigned patient populations, and implementing treatment, therapy, and other prescribed orders. The RN coordinates care and collaborates with providers and other care team members in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and professional practice guidelines, providing care sensitive to the age-specific needs of clinic patients. Care may include central and peripheral IV initiation and management, phlebotomy and blood draws, order management, medication administration including hazardous and antineoplastic agents, blood product and cellular therapy administration, wound care, pain management, performing and assisting with procedures, monitoring responses to interventions, recognizing and responding to hypersensitivity reactions, patient education, vital-sign monitoring, chart reviews and documentation, phone triage, coordination of care including rooming and discharge, appointment assessment, and monitoring standards of care.

Requirements

At least 1 year of nursing experience.
Minnesota Registered Nurse (RN) license.
Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross.
Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Provider Card within 30 days.
National RN certification in the relevant specialty within 18 months of the start date, prorated by FTE.

Nice To Haves

2 years of acute care or infusion-based nursing experience.

Responsibilities

Assess patient needs and identify expected nursing outcomes.
Involve patients, families, and other health care team members in gathering data.
Use an ongoing, systematic process to gather relevant data from patients and families.
Analyze data to identify needs and potential risks.
Identify outcomes that are age-appropriate, culturally appropriate, realistic, and attainable.
Validate outcomes and develop plans of care in collaboration with patients, families, and other health care team members.
Document data and identified outcomes.
Implement nursing interventions based on the plan of care.
Provide care according to the plan and applicable policies, procedures, and nursing practice guidelines.
Coordinate nursing care and appropriate measures to meet patient needs and achieve expected outcomes.
Initiate age- and culturally appropriate measures to meet patient needs and achieve expected outcomes.
Collaborate, consult, or make referrals when unable to perform safely and independently.
Delegate direct and indirect patient care activities to appropriate personnel based on patient needs, condition, risk, complexity, predictability of outcomes, and patient flow.
Perform infusion nursing activities, which may include IV initiation and management, blood draws, medication and blood product administration, wound care, pain management, procedures, monitoring for treatment responses and hypersensitivity reactions, patient education, vital-sign monitoring, documentation, phone triage, and coordination of patient care.