Registered Nurse - Infusion Center

About the Role

This position supports our affiliation with Roswell Park Cancer Care, located at the Main Hospital Campus. The role involves planning and providing nursing interventions for individuals with cancer and related healthcare problems, including patient care, health teaching, and health counseling. The position executes medical regimens prescribed by a physician or licensed healthcare provider.

• Shared Governance: Open-door guiding principle gives all nurses a voice.
• Professional Relationships: Strong rapport with the care team of medical assistants, secretaries, LPN, and physician group.
• Advancement: Strong orientation program.
• Work/Life: Regular schedules to balance work, life, and school calendars.

Responsibilities

• Administer chemotherapy agents, pre-medications, and non-oncology infusions.
• Assess lab results and vital signs.
• Obtain vascular access via Peripheral IV, A-port, or PICC line.
• Patient education on discharge/post treatment.
• Tumor and registry entry.
• Patient tracking for oral chemo and Mediport maintenance.
• Monitor and evaluate patients throughout infusion.
• Complete treatment plans.
• Phone triage.
• Adhere to all regulatory requirements and professional standards such as ONS as applicable to the specific area of nursing practice.
• Perform nursing assessments that include holistic needs of each patient, considering physiological, psychological, social, ethnic, cultural, educational, and spiritual strengths and needs.
• Include the patient and family/support system in planning and delivering care.
• Ensure patient safety is a priority in healthcare delivery.
• Provide direct patient care activities in collaboration with other professional disciplines to ensure integrated treatment plans.
• Administer medications and IV fluids safely and efficiently following established policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate knowledge of medication indications, dosage, route, action, side effects, contraindications, and adverse reactions.
• Provide health education/teaching for patients and their designated significant others.
• Confer with nursing staff and other healthcare team members regarding patient conditions and unusual events to ensure continuity of care.
• Adhere to the RPCI Oncology, PC standard for Employee Conduct.
• Protect patient privacy, confidentiality, and rights as healthcare consumers.
• Comply with HIPAA regulations and define own level of access for minimum necessary requirements.
• Comply with Institute and department policies/procedures and standards of care.
• Complete and maintain certification for the Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Course.
• Maintain necessary education and skills required to address competencies.
• Attend/complete required mandatory in-services annually.
• Attend relevant education programs, including those on new products, equipment, policies/procedures, and clinical care.
• Enhance professional growth through educational programs, current literature, and in-service meetings/workshops.
• Attend required meetings.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and current licensure in the State of New York.
• OCN Certification preferred.
• Maintains current BLS/CPR certification.
• Participates in orientation and continuing education to maintain knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise.

Career Path

Opportunities for career advancement to leadership roles such as team leader, preceptor, mentor, coordinator, or management.

Work Environment

• Clinical setting with Class I exposure.
• Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lift a maximum of 50 pounds.
• Requires ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat, and reach.

Work contact groups include all services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.

Pay

Pay Range: $35.20 - $51.10 per hour. Pay is based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates.