RN, Oncology Ambulatory Care Part Time - Oncology

Clinic RN

Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine as a Clinic RN with our Crown Point Facility. In this role you will partner with the rest of the clinical team to provide patients the highest quality of care.

In this role, the Clinic RN is responsible for coordinating diagnostic and therapeutic regimens for a specified group of patients, and maintains cohesiveness between clinical research, physicians, and patients. The Nurse Associate coordinates physician activities with referring physicians, nursing staff, hospital administration, ancillary services, support services, insurance companies and other departments/sections and agencies as needed, and assists the physician with a wide range of activities necessary to manage clinical research programs. In addition, the Nurse Associate functions as a liaison between physicians, patients, and families, assists physicians with bedside procedures, and provides patient care in the clinic with the physician as necessary.

Conducts, responds to, follow up on, and triages patient phone calls to the physician as appropriate

Assists physician in clinic or procedure area with patient examinations, diagnostic tests and/or therapeutic procedures.

Communicates to clinics coordinators follow-up appointments, ancillary and/or pre-operative testing and scheduling needed for patient

coordinates ordering of tests/procedures with fellows, attending, and other nursing staff

Assists physicians in coordination of research programs by screening patients for acceptance into clinical research and outcome programs. Maintains office file notes, reviews charts, enters data for sectional demographic data base, assists in summarization and analysis of data

Must have experience working in a community health setting

A Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Must be an actively licensed Registered Nurse in the state of Indiana

Minimum of two years' experience as a registered nurse in a clinical setting.

Strong verbal and writing skills.

Ability and willingness to cooperate with co-workers, supervisors, and physicians to do whatever needs to be done in order to serve the patient.

Job Type/FTE: Part Time (0.6 FTE)

Shift: Days

Unit/Department: Radiation Oncology

CBA Code: Non-Union

Ingalls Health System