Registered Nurse (RN) | Cancer Institute Laboratory

The pay range for this position is $27.75 - $41.25 per hour. Actual pay rate is dependent upon experience.

About the role

This nurse will complete venous and central lab specimen collections for the oncology patient population. This position is located in the Prairie Center and serves the Avera Cancer Institute clinic patients. Hours for the position are 7:30 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday. This location is closed on weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Reviews physician prescriptions and communicates the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team.
• Coordinates with other healthcare providers and provides physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends.
• Confers with physicians to provide front-line evaluation of patient condition presentation to ensure that any variance is brought to the attention of the appropriate clinician in a timely manner in accordance with established protocols.
• Develops nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories, examining patients, documenting patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors, conferring with family and friends, developing a nursing diagnosis, establishing nursing care objectives, defining nursing interventions, schedules, and timetables.
• Teaches healthcare requirements by establishing patient care goals, instructing patient, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills, answering questions, providing information and resources.
• Evaluates patient care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care standards, reviewing patient records, noting changing conditions and needs, re-evaluating care objectives, modifying nursing care plan.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy patient care environment by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Keeps patient care equipment operating by following operating instructions and established procedures, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, calling for repairs.
• Keeps patient care supplies ready by checking stock, anticipating needs, placing and expediting orders, verifying receipt, stocking items.
• Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

Requirements

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing
• Active license in the state of practice
• 1-3 years Experience working in a clinical environment

Skills

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing
• An active license in the state of practice
• Upon Hire

Benefits

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.