RN Charge Nurse- Oncology Full Time Days

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare • DeKalb, IL

1d • $39 - $62

About The Position

The RN Charge Nurse is a clinically competent registered professional nurse who prescribes, delegates, and coordinates care for acutely ill patients through assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation. The nurse interacts effectively with patients, significant others, and other health team members while maintaining ANA standards of professional nursing practice and adhering to Northwestern Medicine’s mission, values, ethics, compliance requirements, policies, procedures, and applicable regulatory and accreditation standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Licensed Registered Nurse in the state of Illinois.
• CPR – Basic Life Support.

Nice To Haves

• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN).

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical and health care errors.
• Follow the five medication rights and reduce the potential for medication errors.
• Demonstrate knowledge of medications and their correct administration based on the patient’s age and clinical condition.
• Involve patients and families in forming, developing, implementing, and updating individualized plans of care, including nursing, teaching, continuity-of-care, and discharge planning.
• Use critical thinking and explain the rationale for clinical decisions.
• Assess, analyze, validate, and integrate patient data and identify care needs, problems, and variances, including physical, psychosocial, rehabilitation, safety, learning, spiritual, cultural, age-specific, special-risk, and self-care needs.
• Assess and reassess pain, use appropriate pain-management techniques, and educate patients and families about pain management.
• Identify learning needs, abilities, preferences, readiness, support systems, coping mechanisms, and barriers to learning.
• Make referrals for follow-up as appropriate.
• Explain procedures, therapies, and treatments to patients and families; evaluate and document their responses to teaching; and use appropriate educational resources.
• Conduct body and belongings searches properly and demonstrate awareness of unit-specific contraband allowances.
• Collaborate with physicians and the care team to review and evaluate plans of care.
• Communicate effectively and work cooperatively with other team members, showing respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines.
• Coordinate patient care with members of the health care team and other departments to plan, deliver, and evaluate care.
• Delegate appropriately to other care providers to meet patient needs in a timely manner.
• Conduct telephone screenings and determine appropriate disposition based on the phone contact.
• Understand patient placement criteria and identify the appropriate level of care to communicate to Managed Care, along with requested precertification information.
• Communicate routine and non-routine clinical and staff issues directly to the department manager, and make appropriate independent decisions about patient care and staffing issues.
• Contribute a consultative nursing assessment of total patient care delivery to the Utilization Review process.
• Participate in and communicate with third-party payers about the nursing component of patient care during the Utilization Review process.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• Loan forgiveness
• 401(k) matching
• Benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection for unexpected life events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time