Clinical Nurse Coordinator - Heme/Heme Malignancies
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- Seattle, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assesses 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
- Coordinates with 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 plan of care
- Integrates research and evidence based knowledge into clinical practice
- Education patients and families: chemotherapy, central lines, injections, home care
- Telephone and email symptom triage
- Dressing changes, medication administration, injections
- New patient orientation
- Caregiver support
- Assessment of needs for additional supportive care resources
- Prescription refills
- Result reviews
- Supportive care referrals
- FMLA paperwork, disability paperwork, Ferry passes
- Coordination of outside clinical care
- Ensuring continuity of care with outside providers
- Collaboration with research team for patients on trial
- Attend regular team meetings with provider and nursing teams
- Coordination of care with ancillary services
- Delegation of tasks to appropriate team members
- Coordinating patient schedules with clinic team
- Collaboration with infusion RN and other members of the care team to assure patient needs are met
- Real-time management and escalation of issues in clinic
- Document all nursing care activities accurately and in a timely fashion.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of patient privacy rights.
- Active participation in continuing education, departmental projects, committee work, and quality improvement initiatives
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
- Current Washington State nursing license.
- Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (or equivalent course, such as by the American Red Cross) and renewal required every two years
- Additional certification may be required dependent upon department.
- Critical thinking; the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge
- Ability to develop clinical judgment.
- Time Management skills; the ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently
- Ability to communicate effectively by looking and listening for cues, asking open-ended questions, exploring cues, using pauses, screening responses, and clarifying response.
- Ability to effectively listen by using reflecting, acknowledging, summarizing, empathizing, and paraphrasing skill.
- Ability to effectively 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.
- BSN prepared nurse
- OCN (Oncology Certified Nurse) or BMT RN
- 2 years of oncology nursing experience
- Previous telephone triage experience
- Previous outpatient clinic experience
- Takes initiative
- Good communication skills
- Skilled at multitasking and organization