Registered Nurse - Clinical Nurse Coordinator - Issaquah Clinic (Per Diem)

Registered Nurse

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 position will be Per Diem, with shifts available Monday-Friday. Shifts will be 10 hours from 7:30am-6pm. This position will be located at the Issaquah Clinic in Issaquah, WA.

Responsibilities include assessing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and evaluating patients' adaptation to health changes; developing a plan of care based on patients' disease, symptoms, and response to treatment; educating patients, families, and caregivers on disease processes, treatment, side effects and symptom management; coordinating with inter-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care; referring patients, families and caregivers as appropriate to other clinical resources/professionals such as social work, home health care, clinical nutrition, etc.; implementing, evaluating and modifying plan of care; integrating research and evidence based knowledge into clinical practice.

In addition to primary responsibilities of the Registered Nurses (RN), the Clinical Nurse Coordinator (CNC) will have the following key responsibilities:

Direct Patient Care

• 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

Indirect Patient Care

• 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

Communication and Teamwork

• 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

Professional Development and Clinic Engagement

• 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

Qualifications include a graduate from an accredited school of nursing, current Washington State Registered Nurse Multistate License (MSL) or current MSL from another state; and ability to update to MSL with Primary State of Residence to 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. 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 qualifications include 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.