Registered Nurse - Oncology

About This Role

This nursing role focuses on providing professional, safe, efficient, and high-quality care to oncology patients within designated departments. The Oncology Nurse is a crucial part of a patient's cancer care team, educating, coordinating, administering, and monitoring treatment and services. The role involves collaborative work with other healthcare disciplines to ensure safe delivery of oncologic patient care, participating in assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care, and maintaining a safe work environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the care for designated oncology patients
• Recognize the need for and initiate collaboration/communication with physicians or other interdisciplinary team members and take actions to proactively resolve patient needs
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills, attention to detail, and ability to adapt to changing situations
• Use effective and appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication styles with patients, families, visitors, staff, and other professional colleagues
• Serve as an advocate for patients
• Provide both written and verbal education to patients and families that assist in translating complex medical terminology and treatment methodologies
• Answer questions and advise patients on personal care, symptom management, health promotion, and disease prevention
• Provide support and guidance to patients throughout a patient’s diagnosis and treatment
• Refer patients and their families to healthcare services and community resources
• Communicate with the interdisciplinary team to prevent, correct, or minimize potential or actual patient complications, based upon observation of physiological, behavioral, and environmental factors
• Demonstrate commitment to quality and safety, in accordance with established policies and procedures, utilizing evidenced-based practice
• Participate in evidenced-based practice and research projects as applicable
• Function as a department team member to support designated department and hospital goals and objectives
• Participate in all phases of the performance improvement process, including organizational and department-based patient and colleague experience goals
• Utilize and incorporate technology to optimize communication and patient care delivery
• Demonstrate commitment to colleagues and colleague experience
• Participate in team building activities
• Mentor new staff
• Delegate to other colleagues appropriately on the basis of skills and expertise of team members
• Provide input as requested on performance appraisal of team members
• Adhere to the LVHN confidentiality policy without exception and consistently take measures to protect patients' Protected Health Information (PHI) per HIPAA guidelines