Registered Nurse - Cancer Care Clinic

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Duties include but are not limited to:

• Assessing patients pre, during, and post-treatment.
• Administering chemotherapy/immunotherapy, IV fluids, IV electrolytes, and blood products.
• Reviewing lab results and their implications.
• Safely and effectively performing nursing procedures and using patient care equipment.
• Possessing in-depth knowledge of the expected side effects of cancer treatments.
• Assessing patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.
• Educating patients about their disease, treatments, and expected side effects.
• Recognizing overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responds appropriately.
• Organizing relevant referrals for patients to other healthcare providers such as dieticians, social workers, or speech and language pathologists.
• Administering research and clinical trial drugs, working directly with the provider, pharmacy, and research coordinators.
• Providing direct patient care: assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care based on age-specific components.
• Assuming responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of care, patient and family education, patient self-management after discharge.
• Determining the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care (ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses).
• Using the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) per policy, as well as any future patient documentation programs.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM, Monday-Friday (Compressed tours available - 9 or 10 hr shifts). No weekends or federal holidays.

Compressed/Flexible: Available

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized