RN Infusion

Hartford Healthcare•Meriden, CT

16h•Onsite

About The Position

Registered Nurse (RN) will work in our outpatient Multi-Specialty Infusion Center providing holistic, quality nursing care for patients/families and/or others for a patient population within the Infusion Centers.

Requirements

Current Connecticut RN License
One year of experience as a licensed registered nurse required

Nice To Haves

BSN strongly preferred
Infusion nursing experience including chemotherapy/immunotherapy preferred

Responsibilities

Demonstrates excellent ability to perform patient assessments, and provide symptom management as well as patient and family education.
Practices safe administration of chemotherapy/biotherapy, infusions, injections, and transfusions.
Acts as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide continuity of care throughout various stages of treatment and follow-up including, but not exclusive to: providers, social work, dietician, integrative medicine, pharmacy, navigators, laboratory, radiation therapy, genetics, and clinical research.
Collaborate with provider offices to schedule patients for infusion visits
Triage of patients through use of pathways and collaboration with physicians for toxicities, symptom management and needs for referrals within the RN scope of practice.
Manage a caseload of patients receiving a variety of infusion and oral therapies on an outpatient basis.
Demonstrates high level skills to manage complex workload effectively to provide safest, high quality care.
Demonstrates an excellent ability to communicate through various methods and with various audiences to achieve desired outcome(s).
Participates and engages in continuous professional development, safety behaviors and focus on the patient experience.