NWIN RN - Clinic, Radiation Oncology, Registry, Day Shift

University of Chicago • Crown Point, IN

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine Chesterton, located in Chesterton, Indiana as a Radiation Oncology Nurse (RN). UChicago Medicine is an integrated academic and community health system with multiple primary medical facilities within the surrounding suburbs of Chicago. UChicago Medicine, Crown Point is a two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana, the academic health system's largest off-site facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana.

Requirements

• Must have experience working in a community health setting
• A Bachelor's degree in Nursing
• Must be an actively licensed Registered Nurse in the state of Indiana

Responsibilities

• Conducts, responds to, follow up on, and triages patient phone calls to the physician as appropriate
• Assists physician in clinic or procedure area with patient examinations, diagnostic tests and/or therapeutic procedures
• Counsels patients concerning lifestyle modifications, medication regimens, side effects, and interactions using an appropriate psychosocial communication level
• Communicates to clinics coordinators follow-up appointments, ancillary and/or pre-operative testing and scheduling needed for patient
• Arranges patient admissions; coordinates ordering of tests/procedures with fellows, attending, and other nursing staff
• Assists physicians in coordination of research programs by screening patients for acceptance into clinical research and outcome programs
• Maintains office file notes, reviews charts, enters data for sectional demographic data base, assists in summarization and analysis of data

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level