Registered Nurse, Chemo and Infusion

The Infusion and Chemotherapy Registered Nurse assesses the physical, psychosocial and learning needs of patients and families.

Essential duties include:

• Administers blood products, medications, chemotherapeutic agents, biotherapy agents, analgesics, and hematopoietic growth factors to patients with cancer following age-specific guidelines and standards.

• Assesses patient compliance with medications, treatments, and appointments.

• Demonstrates competency in the performance of simple and complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as venipuncture, administration of IV fluids, care of vascular access devices, and declotting of lines.

• Documents the interventions and outcomes of the care plan in the medical record.

• Evaluates the need for prescription refills, effectiveness of medication, or medication changes.

• Facilitates the transition of care for patients to home care, palliative care, or hospice in collaboration with the cancer care team.

• Follows standard policies and procedures for medical orders according to chemotherapy administration, biotherapy administration, analgesics, hematopoietic growth factors, immunosuppressive agents, and antiemetic therapy.

• Manages telephone calls from patients and families and triages patient calls and assesses the clinical problem.

• Optimizes physical and emotional comfort for patients and families by providing equipment, resources, or referrals to community services.

• Optimizes the use of team resources by establishing patient priorities and advising the medical assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians of patients' needs.

• Provides continuity of care between outpatient and inpatient departments on patient admissions to the hospital and accepts information on discharges from the hospital.

• Provides direct care to patients by conducting a patient history and assessment including symptoms, performance status score, and clinical changes from the last visit and formulates a plan of care for patients and families.

• Provides instructions and directions to patients and families on tests and chemotherapy side effects.

• Provides patient and family education and serves as an educator for nursing and other staff.

• Reviews all patient medical data prior to a patient visit to ensure that all results are available for the medical team during the patient visit (i.e., that all laboratory results, pathology reports, imaging studies, and medical records are available for team from which to make a disposition).

• Reviews patients' medications, distress assessment, and vital signs including pain on each visit to the clinic and plans nursing interventions.

• Serves as a patient advocate on issues related to the clinical changes and physical status of patients since the last clinic visit.

Work Schedule:

• .8 FTE/64 hours in a biweekly pay period

Required Qualifications:

• Wisconsin State Registered Nurse (RN) license
• Basic life support (BLS) certificate

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience as an RN
• Two years of oncology experience
• Oncology Nursing Society Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Provider card
• OCN certification
• Experience in acute care, specific patient populations and diseases, and use of Karnofsky Performance Status scale

Benefits:

Amery Hospital & Clinic offers a competitive benefits package (.5 FTE or greater) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, 401k with match, disability insurance and tuition reimbursement. Benefits take effect the first of the month on or after hire date.

About Amery Hospital & Clinic:

Since being established in 1956, Amery Hospital & Clinic has provided outstanding health care to Amery and our surrounding communities. We provide the kind of high-quality care you'd expect to find in a "big city" with the personalized dedication you can expect from a hometown doctor. In addition to primary care for all stages of life, we offer specialty services including oncology, cardiology, orthopedics and surgical services.

We strive to offer more to our patients - more care options, more comfort and more expertise. In addition to our hospital and clinics, we provide specialized care for patients at our Behavioral Health Center and Wound Healing Center. We also work in close collaboration with other hospitals in the HealthPartners health care system, giving our community access to the high-quality care.

As a partner for good, we believe that outstanding health care comes from combining science with compassion, spirit and humanity. Everyone on our team helps make health care and insurance simpler and more affordable for all. Join us and become a partner for good, helping to improve the health and well-being of our patients, members and the communities we serve.