Registered Nurse - Medical Oncology - Weekend - Nights - Oncology
Company: Inova Alexandria Hospital
Location: Alexandria
Posted on: March 18, 2023
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Job Description:
Registered Nurse - Medical Oncology - Weekend - NightsWeekend
Position: Friday/Saturday/Sunday The Inova Alexandria Hospital is
seeking a Full-time Registered Nurse for our Medical Oncology Unit.
This is a 12 hrs. (3x) night shift.
Inova Alexandria Hospital is a 318-bed community hospital that
offers a full range of healthcare services and has received
national recognition for healthcare excellence. From babies to
seniors, Inova Alexandria Hospital Provides World-Class Medical
Care. We are dedicated to continually expanding our programs and
services to help ensure we meet the healthcare needs of the
communities we serve today and in the future.
Unit 4N is an award-winning adult medical oncology unit that
includes 24 private rooms. Our unit provides nursing care to
medical and oncology patients in all phases of their disease
process, including initial diagnosis, treatment, recurrence, and
palliative and hospice care. Our care delivery model is to provide
family-centered care and team up with other healthcare providers
and departments for quality patient care and outcomes. The
department encourages professional development by participation in
monthly education programs. Obtaining specialty certifications,
ADVANCE Professional Ladder and attending national conferences.
As a Registered Nurse, you will provide knowledgeable and caring
clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of
patients, families, nurses and healthcare delivery teams. To help
achieve our mission, you will consistently provide safe and
therapeutic care in a holistic/systematic way while incorporating
differences into the provision of care and conducting all patient
care in a patient/family centered manner. Your ability to integrate
knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and
families throughout the continuum, to include patient and family
education, is of vital importance. Communicating effectively and
working cooperatively with others while having respect for and an
understanding of other clinical disciplines is required. Your
ability to determine processes for delivery of care from direct
patient/family communication, technology and other healthcare team
member collaboration is essential.
Job Responsibilities
* Performs comprehensive assessments by interpreting multiple,
sometimes conflicting, data sets and synthesizing their
interrelationships.
* Formulates individualized plans of care based on assessment
findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve
best practice.
* Supports and empowers patients/families as they progress through
the healthcare continuum from health promotion to end of life
decisions.
* Advocates for patients' rights from the patient/family
perspective and provides counsel while acting as a resource to
resolve issues.
* Anticipates ethical, spiritual and cultural needs while
intervening to maximize patient outcomes. Coordinates healthcare
and alternate services for patient/family transition planning.
* Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population
data and intuition while promoting the development of clinical
decision making of all team members.
* Documents all patient care activities, as per documentation
standards, and assists healthcare team members with
documentation.
* Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and contributes to
performance improvement initiatives related to documentation.
* Provides validation of clinical decisions for other staff members
and seeks validation from others for complex patients or unfamiliar
situations.
* Collaborates with the healthcare team and leads other disciplines
to meet desired outcomes. Mentors staff in understanding and
advocating for the importance of utilizing evidence based care
initiatives in nursing practice.
* Evaluates the process to achieve outcomes, anticipates patient
variances and makes revisions to plans of care.
* Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others.
* Has respect for and an understanding of other clinical
disciplines.
* Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes.
* Demonstrates effective communication skills and assists in the
resolution of conflict among healthcare team members, patients and
families.
* Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team and incorporates
their expertise to achieve desired patient outcomes.
* Keeps informed of unit initiatives and incorporates outcomes of
team/committee work into practice.
* Delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit
activities.
* Assists staff to assess patients' learning needs and outcomes
measurement of patient education.
* Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve desired
patient outcomes.
* Demonstrates a willingness to give 100 percent and assist others
voluntarily.
* Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.
* Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming
responsibility for self-development in lifelong learning.
* Demonstrates leadership skills in decision making and problem
solving.
* Demonstrates role model and leadership behaviors
consistently.
* Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to healthcare
team members.
* Identifies own learning needs and develops professional
goals.
* Seeks opportunities to obtain education to enhance practice.
* Collaborates in the development and implementation of an
educational plan for identified needs.
* Reviews self-development plan and professional goals.
* Seeks new knowledge toward the progression of professional
goals.
* Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum
of six formal contact hours.
* Maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record.
* Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice
while serving as a resource, preceptor and mentor.
* Conducts all patient care in a patient and family centered
manner. Integrates knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the
needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care to
include patient and family education.
* Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population
data and intuition.
* Promotes clinical decision making development in all team
members.
* Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care
delivery.
* Ensures that the process for delivery of care is synthesized from
direct patient/family communication, technology and other
healthcare team member collaboration.
* Serves as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment and
successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality through
relationships and access based knowledge.
Requirements:
* At least six months of Registered Nurse clinical experience in
the acute care setting.
* BSN or ADN
* If RN has an ADN, within 6 months of start date the RN must meet
with their nurse leader and the following:
* Identify which Accredited School the employee plans to attend
* Submit a review of transcript from the school indicating the
required pre-requisites and timeline for taking the courses
* Provide a written plan with anticipated BSN completion date.
* Complete BSN within 24 months of start date
* Accredited School of nursing BLS for Healthcare Provider
certification required
* RN licensed, or eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of
Virginia as an RN
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