Per Diem, Radiation Oncology, RN - $2,000 Sign-On Bonus

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, and treatment facilities in 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.

• City of Hope is listed #5 among Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for Cancer Care.

We have an exciting opportunity to join City of Hope as a Per diem, Radiation Oncology RN who provides care in the outpatient clinic at our Torrance Community Practice. The nurse will support two Radiation Oncologist in partnership with a second RN.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• The Registered Nurse will support providers with consults and follow-ups.
• Perform patient education
• Start IV's for CT simulations with contrast, coordinate chemotherapy.
• Triage patient concerns related to their radiation therapy treatments and care related questions on side effects and wound care.
• Help support the patient’s health literacy by providing patient education and answering clinical questions related to their care plan.
• Assist in coordinating of PEG tube placement and dental clearance for head and neck patients.
• Assist in the radiation oncology care plan for cardiac devices.
• Navigate the patient and caregivers through any barriers to care to aid in providing timely treatment, be a liaison working with other service lines e.g., financial counsellors, social services, transportation. (high-level awareness of payor authorization related questions that could affect the patients care.)
• Support the patient and caregivers in quality-of-life goals and survivorship.
• Act as a liaison between research team and rad onc team for clinical trial patients, including identifying patients for precision medicine, genetic and available trials.

Additional Information:

8 hour shift, Monday - Friday

May need to support as early as 7am and as late as 7pm on rare occasions.

$61.72/HR. flat rate

Your qualifications should include:

• Associates degree in nursing required.
• 0 -3 years of experience as an RN.
• Current California Registered Nurse License
• Current BLS card through the American Heart Association (AHA)

Preferred Qualification:

• Two years of experience in a physician office or hospital
• One (1) year radiation oncology experience
• EMR experience preferred (EPIC)

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