Registered Nurse - Bezos Family Immunotherapy Clinic - Per Diem
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The Registered Nurse is a member of an interdisciplinary care team. This role provides patient centric care and is primarily responsible for nursing assessment and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Bezos Family Immunotherapy Clinic Profile
- Ground-breaking clinic supporting cellular immunotherapy therapies and clinical trials
- Our team consists of advanced practice providers, physicians, infusion nurses, clinical nurses coordinators, social worker, dietician, pharmacist, schedulers, research, and lab staff working together to support patients
Responsibilities
- Administers supportive medications, hydration, chemotherapy, blood and cellular products to patients undergoing immunotherapy treatments (if applying for infusion role).
- Functions as a resource for rotating physician staff regarding standard practice and operations in the clinic
- Maintains knowledge of immunotherapy clinical research protocols
- Participates in continuous process improvement activities for the department
- Assesses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and evaluates patients’ adaptation to health changes
- Develops a plan of care based on patients’ disease, symptoms, and response to treatment
- Educates patients, families, and caregivers on disease processes, treatment, side effects and symptom management
- Coordinates with inter-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care
- Refers patients, families and caregivers as appropriate to other clinical resources/professionals such as social work, home health care, clinical nutrition, etc.
- Implements, evaluates and modifies plan of care
- Integrates research and evidence based knowledge into clinical practice
Qualifications
Required:
- Nursing degree
- Current Washington State nursing license
- Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (or equivalent course, such as by the American Red Cross) and renewal required every two years
- ONS Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Provider Card (required within 6 months of hire)
- CITI Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Research Training (required within 6 months of hire)
- Critical thinking; the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge
- Ability to develop clinical judgment
- Time Management skills; the ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently
- Ability to communicate effectively by looking and listening for cues, asking open-ended questions, exploring cues, using pauses, screening responses, and clarifying response
- Ability to effectively listen by using reflecting, acknowledging, summarizing, empathizing, and paraphrasing skill
- Ability to effectively provide information by checking what information the person knows already, giving small amounts of information at a time, using clear terms and avoiding jargon, avoiding detail unless it is requested, checking for understanding, and pausing and waiting for a response
Preferred:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Two years of nursing experience
- OCN or BMTCN Certification
- ACLS and/or PALS
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