Clinical Nurse Coordinator - Thoracic Head Neck and Specialty Clinic

About the role

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Additional Responsibilities of the Clinical Nurse Coordinator

• Direct Patient Care:
  • Education patients and families: chemotherapy, central lines, injections, home care
  • Telephone and email symptom triage
  • Dressing changes, medication administration, injections
  • New patient orientation
  • Caregiver support
  • Assessment of needs for additional supportive care resources
  • Prescription refills
  • Result reviews
• Indirect Patient Care:
  • Supportive care referrals
  • FMLA paperwork, disability paperwork, Ferry passes
  • Coordination of outside clinical care
  • Ensuring continuity of care with outside providers
  • Collaboration with research team