RN Oncology

CommonSpirit Health • Pueblo, CO

3d

About The Position

As an RN, you facilitate, communicate, and collaborate with the healthcare team and the patient and family to meet the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. You promote patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, follow patient care standards and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrate accountability for relationship-based care and the organization’s mission.

The role includes assessing patients’ needs, developing and implementing plans of care, evaluating responses and outcomes, performing therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, maintaining accurate and confidential records, using information technology to support care, advocating for patient rights and safety, and educating patients and families.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or RN licensure by endorsement.
• RN license in the state of employment.
• Ability to exert or lift up to 50 lbs. occasionally, up to 20 lbs. frequently, and up to 10 lbs. constantly.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• One year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
• Evaluate patient responses and intervene to support optimal outcomes.
• Develop and implement patient care plans and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Perform therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, including IVs, incision and wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
• Maintain patient charts and records thoroughly and confidentially.
• Document patient status, interventions, responses, and outcomes accurately and in a timely manner.
• Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect each patient’s health, safety, and rights.
• Assess patient and family learning readiness, needs, and abilities; provide education and evaluate its effectiveness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree