Home Health Care Registered Nurse Full-time

Hampton University Proton Cancer Institute (Hampton Proton) is the nation’s 8th proton therapy facility and one of the largest free‑standing proton clinics in the world. Hampton Proton provides one of the best health‑care opportunities in the nation, and you are a vital member of this important team. Your daily contributions help us conquer cancer and save lives. Excellence is reflected in the care we provide, and you play a key part in maintaining that excellence.

Registered Nurse – Patient Care

Assists and educates patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, and the resources available, including educating eligible patients about appropriate clinical research studies and technologies.

Serves as an essential link between patients and all other care providers. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary Proton team to coordinate and provide patient care.

Facilitates appointments for consultants and support services within established service standards, including social workers, dietitians, physicians, etc.

Follows patients throughout the care continuum, including inpatient admissions, collaborates with inpatient care management resources, and notifies the therapy team and provider of changes in patient status.

Assists and oversees medical assistants in the delivery of patient care procedures.

Serves as a mentor for nursing students or medical staff from outside facilities.

Initiates, builds, and maintains relationships with patients in the clinic, offering support and guidance as they go through Proton Radiation Therapy treatments.

Works with Cancer Registry staff and others to collect data, track outcomes, and support strategic planning processes.

Responsible for outreach efforts to establish and maintain positive working relationships with key customers (physicians, office staff, diagnostic staff, nurses, radiology staff, social services staff, and radiation oncology staff, etc.).

Takes verbal medication orders and procedures orders from providers, documents and assigns tasks accordingly to appropriate team members.

Assists pharmacy with prior authorizations if needed. Follows established facility policies and procedures/practices.

Maintains regular communication with patients’ providers through clinical messages in MOSAIQ, EPIC, Kaiku, emails, and phone calls.

home care, neurology, pulmonology, etc.) per physician’s orders.

Documents every intervention into the appropriate electronic medical record (MOSAIQ, EPIC, Kaiku, etc.).

Works with medical interpreters and interpreter services to provide services to patients of other languages.

Ensures culturally and age‑appropriate care of all patients.

Provides patients with information about their disease, treatment plan, medications, home‑care needs, follow‑up appointments, and referrals to community resources.

Manages assigned cases, completes weekly department productivity templates, and assigns documents to EMR for MD review.

Ensures medical records are complete through periodic quality‑assurance audit and control.

Assists with tracking clinic supply needs and communicates with appropriate personnel/department.

Assists in obtaining pre‑authorizations as needed for insurance verification and/or provides clinical information to assist the Patient Coordinator and Financial Counselor.

Maintains standard operating procedures for clinical services to ensure proper procedures, safety, and quality‑assurance requirements are met.

Conducts new patient phone interviews and registers new patients for consultation assigned by the Director of Nursing.

Participates in activities to improve quality and patient satisfaction.

Provides coverage in all clinical areas as directed by the Director of Nursing.

Assists with the efficient operation of workflow within the department by performing other duties as assigned.

General knowledge of electronic health records.

strong time‑management, organizational, and planning skills.

Answers incoming clinic calls, fields and answers questions, schedules appointments, routes calls, and relays messages appropriately, working with numerous distractions and interruptions.

Navigates and documents in various electronic medical record (EMR) platforms.

Radiation oncology experience: The applicant must possess a current VA RN license (oncology‑certified nurse preferred) and have previous healthcare experience in a hospital or busy physician practice (oncology experience strongly preferred).

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is a plus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

and possess close visual acuity.

The work environment characteristics described here are typical in a clinic setting. Monday through Friday. Some evening hours may be required.

Employee assistance program

Health insurance

Life insurance

Relocation assistance

Applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other bias prohibited by law.

In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation to apply for a current job opportunity, please contact the Human Resources Department at View email address on click.appcast.io with “Disability Assistance” in the subject line.

Job Type: Full‑time

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