Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Clinical Nurse Coordinator- GU Care Neighborhood

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center • $99K — $183K *
Seattle, WA 98115In-Person
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Qualifications

  • Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
  • Current Washington State Registered Nurse (RN) license or NLC multistate license (MSL)
  • Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (renew every two years)
  • ONS Chemotherapy Provider Card required within 3 months of hire
  • Critical thinking skills for clinical judgment and time management
  • Effective communication and listening skills.

Responsibilities

  • Assess and evaluate patients' physical and emotional needs
  • Develop and implement personalized care plans
  • Educate patients and their families on treatment and symptom management
  • Coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams
  • Refer patients to additional clinical resources as needed
  • Administer IV treatments, including chemotherapy and hydration
  • Engage in professional development and quality improvement initiatives.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement plan options
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid vacation (12-22 days per year)
  • Paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).
Full Job Description
The Registered Nurse is a member of an interdisciplinary care team. This role provides patient-centric care and is primarily responsible for nursing assessment and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

This is a full time onsite position at our South Lake Union location. The schedule is Monday through Friday.

Responsibilities

  • 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

In addition to primary responsibilities of the Registered Nurses (RN), the Infusion RN will have the following key responsibilities:

Nursing Care and Assessment
  • Demonstrate knowledge of standard treatment and medication side effects
  • Perform nursing assessment, review relevant lab results, assess pain and other symptoms
  • Administer IV hydration, electrolyte replacement, chemotherapy/biotherapy, and blood products

Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs
  • Demonstrate an awareness of the potentially hazardous nature of many of the agents administered and uses correct precautions when handling them
  • Follow all procedures regarding safe disposal of any materials used in the administration of chemotherapy or other hazardous agents and blood products

Patient and Family Education
  • Provide patient and family education in coordination with treatment and care plan
  • Conduct learning needs assessment for patient and caregiver(s)
  • Ensure patients have clinic contact information and understand when to call if symptoms arise or persist post-infusion therapy

Communication and Teamwork
  • Communicate or escalate patient symptoms and concerns to provider as needed
  • Collaborate with the care team to provide effective and efficient patient care
  • Request consultation from social work, dietician, spiritual care, and or any other supportive care teams when patient's situation indicates

Professional Development and Clinic Engagement
  • Participation in continuing education, departmental projects, committee work, and quality improvement initiatives


Qualifications

Required:
  • Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
  • Must have current Washington State Registered Nurse (RN) license or current NLC multistate license (MSL); and must upgrade to an MSL primary state of residence, WA, within 60 days of hire. This requirement may be waived under specific circumstances, subject to approval.
  • Applicants that do not have previous oncology experience will be provided additional training and support
  • Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (or equivalent course, such as by the American Red Cross) and renewal required every two years
  • ONS Chemotherapy Provider Card (required within 3 months of hire)
  • 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.

Preferred:
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • Two years of nursing experience preferred
  • Certification in oncology or specialty practice area
  • 2 years of RN Oncology experience in an ambulatory infusion setting

The hourly pay range for this position is from $47.64 to $88.19 and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications. Registered Nurses are paid on a step-scale basis and are also eligible for shift differentials and other pay premiums such as advanced degree, preceptor and certification.

Although Fred Hutch is not sponsoring most H-1B visas at this time, candidates who already hold an H-1B sponsored by another organization and are currently in the U.S. may be eligible for this position.

This position may be eligible for relocation assistance.

This is a full time onsite position at our South Lake Union location. The schedule is Monday through Friday.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).

Additional Information

About Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is a non-profit research institute dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases. It was founded in 1975 by Dr. William Hutchinson in honor of his brother Fred, who died of lung cancer at the age of 45. The center is located in Seattle, Washington and employs over 3,000 scientists, physicians, and staff. It is one of the largest and most respected cancer research centers in the world, and has made significant contributions to the development of bone marrow transplantation and other cancer treatments.
Learn more about Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Size
3,000 employees
Industry
Healthcare
Founded
1975
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