Registered Nurse - Infusion - Overlake Clinic

About the role

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our interdisciplinary care team. This role provides patient-centered care and is primarily responsible for nursing assessment and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Affirms 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.
• Collaborates with the 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 the plan of care.
• Integrates research and evidence-based knowledge into clinical practice.
• Performs nursing care and assessment, including administering IV hydration, electrolyte replacement, chemotherapy/biotherapy, and blood products.
• Ensures safe handling of hazardous drugs, adhering to all necessary precautions and procedures.
• Communicates or escalates patient symptoms and concerns to providers as needed.
• Collaborates with the care team to provide effective and efficient patient care.
• Requests consultations from social work, dietitian, spiritual care, and/or any other supportive care teams when patient's situation indicates.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current Washington State Registered Nurse (RN) license or current NLC multistate license (MSL); MSL primary state of residence must be updated to WA within 60 days of hire.
• Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (or equivalent course, such as by the American Red Cross).
• ONS Chemotherapy Provider Card (required within 3 months of hire).
• Critical thinking; ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge.
• Time management skills; ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently.
• Effective communication skills; ability to listen and provide information by checking what information the person knows already, giving small amounts of information at a time, using clear terms and avoiding jargon, avoiding detail unless it is requested, checking for understanding, and pausing and waiting for a response.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Certification in oncology or specialty practice area.
• Two years of RN Oncology experience in an ambulatory infusion setting.