Clinical Nurse (RN), Infusion Treatment Area – 10hr Rotating 1.0

What We Offer

The Stanford Cancer Center offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your overall well-being. This includes:

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

What You Will Do

Establishes Therapeutic Relationships:

• Create and maintain a climate conducive to healing through being present to the patient and family.
• Identify and manage discomforts; provide emotional support and information.
• Guide the patient and family through phases of illness and recovery/passage to death and in accordance with the patient's goals and culture.

Mobilizes the patient's strengths and abilities towards participation in recovery and control over plan of care.

Diagnostic and Monitoring Functions:

• Obtain accurate and relevant assessment data and interpret the data as normal vs abnormal.
• Determine nursing diagnosis.
• Monitor and evaluate data as frequently as needed based on stability.

Plans and Implements Therapeutic Interventions:

• Collaborate with the patient, family, and members of the health care team to develop an individualized plan of care.
• Implement nursing and medical interventions safely.
• Evaluate effectiveness of interventions and monitor patient for adverse responses and side effects.

Teaching and Coaching, Patient and Staff Teaching:

• Assess a patient's and family's learning needs and readiness to learn.
• Teach needed information for self-care and illness prevention.
• Adjust information and expectations based on responses from patient, developmental levels, physiological and psychological condition, and cultural variations.
• Teach other staff members both incidentally and/or through formal roles such as preceptor or super-user.

Effective Management of Rapidly Changing Situations:

• Ability to rapidly grasp problem situations and respond quickly and appropriately.
• Identify the need for and activate emergency protocols.
• Monitor and ensure quality healthcare practices.

Organization and Work Role Functions:

• Integrate multiple requests and work expectations by setting priorities, delegating tasks appropriately, and seeking assistance as needed.

Priorities:

• Contribute to team building through participation in unit programs and meetings.
• Contribute to positive morale, using constructive and effective conflict resolution skills.

Management and Delegation:

• Learns and utilizes the available technology for communication, documentation, and locating information regarding unusual clinical situations, diagnosis, and treatments.
• Contributes to the knowledge and skill of other members of the nursing staff through one or more activities such as formal or informal teaching, participation on Shared Governance groups, professional publications and/or presentations.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited college or university preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Able to communicate effectively in English.
• 1 or more years of oncology/hematology infusion experience.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills required.
• Excellent IV skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and effectively in a complex health care environment.

Physical Demands and Work Conditions

• Frequent: Frequent (please list each item under Comments).
• The work involves considerable exertion such as frequent lifting of patients and equipment, bending and stooping, and walking.
• The work environment involves moderate risks or discomforts which require special safety precautions, e.g. working with risk of exposure of contagious disease, radiation or infection, working with emotionally disturbed patients.
• Precautions are routine for nearly all situations.
• The employee might be required to use protective clothing or gear.
• Blood Borne Pathogens Category I - Tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.