Registered Nurse - Cancer Treatment Center

RequiredBehaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

RequiredQualifications:

• Possession of a current license to practice in the State of New Mexico as an RN
• Radiation Oncology nursing experience
• Ability to understand and prepare complex written materials, such as patient records
• Ability to communicate verbally with all levels of associates and management, physicians, patients, and their families
• Ability to work without close supervision and able to exercise independent judgment in a professional area
• Ability to organize multiple task and projects and maintain control of workflow

• Requires much walking, lifting, and physical exertion. Ability to lift, push, or pull a minimum of fifty (50) pounds
• Requires full range of motion
• Current CPR certification
• Fluent in English

PreferredQualifications:

• One (1) year Oncology nursing experience Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses the patient’s condition, systematically utilizing verbal and technical nursing skills, to establish a basis for patient care
• Establishes pertinent nursing interventions during assessment, treatment and follow up
• Assesses patient’s response to pain medications and chemotherapy drugs
• Evaluates level and severity of side effects and refers patients to physician for further assessment of pain, nausea, and side effects as needed
• Assist physician with examination of patients
• Assists Radiation Therapist with treatment of patients as requested

• Monitors patient’s nutritional status
• Ensures that nutritional counseling is provided to patients as needed
• Maintain patient stats throughout their course of treatment
• Reconcile outpatient medication lists
• Address chemoradiation on concurrent patients. Be familiar with radio-sensitizing agents and those drugs that increased incidence of radiotherapy toxicities
• Completes the care navigation portion in EMR

• Initiates patient care activities as needed, based on written care plan, knowledge of professional nursing standards of care
• Ensures that patient care activities are handled properly, such as, administration of medications, IV maintenance, venipunctures and changing of dressings
• Coordinates patient care activities with other medical health departments, services and provide technical information and assistance to physicians and other departments as needed

• Identifies the learning needs of patients and family members
• Provide teaching and or education to meet the needs of the patients, including radiation therapy or chemotherapy procedures as well as physical and psychological factors affecting patients and their families
• Refers patients and family members to other sources of information, such as, Social Services, nutritional Services and Pastoral Care
• Documents education and or teachings in patient’s record

• Demonstrates increasing independence in the performance of, technical skills required by chosen specialty
• Takes the initiative in identifying opportunities for self-development and enhancement of professional competency thru continuing education activities
• Demonstrates effective customer relations skills, promotes a positive work environment, and contributes to the overall team effort
• Provides professional, efficient, and courteous communication to all patients, family members and staff
• Maintains a caring and compassionate work environment
• Understands, applies, and supports hospital/departmental policies, procedures, and standards
• All RN’s will be required to wear required SJRMC RN scrubs on OTV day
• Maintains HIPPA standards

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:

Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Activities may include intermittent or prolonged: standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, pushing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching with arms and using the hands to handle or feel
• Repetitive motions may also be required, such as: wrist / hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity (as in typing, writing, etc.)

• The job requires exposure to the following conditions: risk of radiation, working near moving or mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock
• The noise level may vary from very quiet to very loud

• Hearing:

o Must be able to hear, alarms on equipment, fire alarms, overhead announcements
o Patients/families verbal discussions
o Instructions/feedback from other healthcare providers

• Vision:

o Must be able to see and focus on close-up and distant objects
o Distinguish colors
o Have intact: peripheral vision
o Depth perception: judge distance and spatial relationships

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