Registered Nurse - Evaluation and Treatment Center PT

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Provides the Mother Standard of care to oncology patients across the adult and geriatric spectrum. An Individualized plan of care is developed and implemented, utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Responsible for inspiring and guiding other qualified patient care team members to ensure enhanced outcomes through effective delegation in the exercise of his/her independent judgment. Nursing care addresses physical, spiritual, emotional and educational needs of the patient, and coordinates the plan of care with other healthcare professionals, support persons and all members of the healthcare team.

The successful candidate:

• Involved in the assessment, triaging, and care of oncology patients who require prompt medical attention. Aids with the coordination of patient care during patient treatment and/or during transfer to appropriate level of care. Responsible for the assessment, treatment, care, and education of patients.
• Completion of chemotherapy HealthStream bundle; Demonstrates knowledge of chemotherapeutic agents and medications.
• Ability to assess and recognize normal/abnormal responses to treatments and institute appropriate interventions.
• Demonstrates skills to assess and intervene in life-threatening situations.
• Administer medications via all routes, using the 6 rights, medication bar scanner and monitoring patient for side effects.
• Ability to collect blood specimens and blood cultures.
• Ability to care for patients with a variety of invasive lines, including but not limited to: IV lines, central lines, ports and pleural catheters.
• Maintenance and care of patients with ostomy/ileostomy and urostomy.
• Ability to provide basic would assessment and care including wet to dry dressing, staple and suture removal, surgical tape and wound drain removal.
• Implement and provide care of the patient receiving Therapeutic phlebotomy.
• Ability to conduct risk assessment, prevention and treatment of pressure injury.
• Attend in house codes and rapid response calls as required.
• Able to manage the Inpatient admission process including completion of the KBC, medication reconciliation, and assessment/documentation flowsheets.
• Coordinate and document appropriate discharge instructions and referrals and/or transfer to alternate levels of care.
• Performs and documents ongoing assessments including observation, physical examination, laboratory/test results, and patient response to interventions.
• Must be able to work 2 12's

QUALIFICATIONS

Your qualifications should include:

1 year experience in area

Associate Degree in Nursing or equivalent

Arizona Registered Nurse License or a Registered Nurse License form a Compact State

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification- an approved American Heart Association (AHA) training site, American Safety & Health Institute, or Red Cross BLS certification is required upon hire. If their current certification does not meet the guidelines, stakeholders will have (30) days from the date of hire to acquire attend an onsite initial BLS course and will be required to renew every two years.

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification-Stakeholders will have thirty (30) days from the date of hire to acquire American Heart Association (AHA) ACLS certification and will need to be renewed every two years. Will not be allowed to provide ACLS for patients independently until AHA ACLS cards are obtained

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