RN Oncology Unit - Nights, 0.75 FTE
About The Position
The Oncology RN uses the nursing process and holistic, family-centered care to collect, verify, and organize patient health information; plan and implement care; and evaluate outcomes. The RN provides direct and indirect patient care in the Oncology Unit and demonstrates compassion, initiative, flexibility, responsibility, and professional practice with minimal supervision. The RN may serve as a resource and mentor to new or inexperienced nurses. The role prioritizes care according to patients’ physical and psychosocial needs and addresses ethical issues related to cancer pain management, end-of-life decisions, altered body image, death and dying, and informed consent. The RN applies thorough knowledge of chemotherapy, including administration methods, delivery rates, drug properties, and safe handling. The RN educates patients and families about medications, expected chemotherapy side effects and their management, safe handling of body fluids, and body-image changes, and provides emotional support when patients are facing death and dying. The RN communicates relevant changes in patients’ clinical conditions, diagnostic results, and symptoms to physicians, the nurse manager, and coworkers, and responds promptly and accurately to changes in condition or treatment response. The RN is also able to perform general nursing duties in all departments with adequate supervision.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to accept responsibility as an oncology staff RN.
- Graduate of a professional school of nursing.
- Current Montana Registered Nurse license.
- BLS certification.
- Complete a Chemotherapy/Oncology course and achieve competency to administer chemotherapy within six months to one year after hire.
- Maintain chemotherapy education and competencies yearly or as needed.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, stress, deadlines, difficult situations, and customer interactions with cognitive, organizational, and emotional maturity.
- Interpersonal and communication skills for effective, nonjudgmental, empathetic patient care and customer relations.
- Openness to feedback and to a changing environment requiring flexibility in scheduling and department assignments.
Nice To Haves
- Certification in Oncology Nursing.
Responsibilities
- Use the nursing process to assess patient health status, plan and implement care, and evaluate outcomes.
- Provide direct and indirect patient care in the Oncology Unit using holistic, family-centered care.
- Prioritize care based on patients’ physical and psychosocial needs.
- Address ethical issues involving cancer pain management, end-of-life decisions, altered body image, death and dying, and informed consent.
- Apply knowledge of chemotherapy administration methods, delivery rates, drug properties, and safe handling.
- Educate patients and families about medications, chemotherapy side effects and their management, safe handling of body fluids, and body-image changes.
- Provide emotional support to patients and families dealing with death and dying.
- Communicate changes in a patient’s clinical condition, diagnostic results, and symptoms to physicians, the nurse manager, and coworkers as appropriate.
- Respond promptly and accurately to changes in patient condition or response to treatment.
- Serve as a resource and mentor for new and inexperienced nurses as needed.
- Perform general nursing duties in all departments with adequate supervision.
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Job Type
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