OP Chemo RN

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Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Please review the job information below.

General Purpose of Job:

A registered professional nurse who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designed time frame and provides care to these patients via therapeutic use of self, nursing process, the environment/instrumentation and other health care team members. Operates within the Driscoll Children's Hospital mission, vision, and values.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable

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

• Assess patient condition and progress. Performs reassessment as required.
• Participates in the nursing care plan effort.
• Evaluates patient status/protocols/standards/medication comfort measures/patient response/psychological response/teaching protocols medical treatments.
• Documents following unit/generic guidelines.
• Adheres to generic structure with regard to legal issues, patient rights and patient valuables.
• Adheres to all unit/generic safety policies.
• Responds and appropriately documents unit/patient emergency situations.
• Maintains working knowledge of unit generic structure.
• Maintains a sense of professionalism/self validation.
• Participates in teaching others/self development.
• Participates in unit/personal goal attainments.
• Participates and fulfills her/his role in quality improvement standards/problem solving/decision making.
• Delegation coordination.
• Communicates effectively.
• Establishes working relationships.
• Demonstrates responsibility and awareness of staffing, scheduling flexibility.
• Other duties may be assigned.
• The above statements should be included on all job descriptions.
• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Occasional travel to satellite clinic for patient care. Unless currently working in Valley clinic travel will be required of all staff to and from Mc Allen - Brownsville. ( Travel from Valley to Corpus for training / clinic coverage )
• Participate and support clinic operations.

Education and/or Experience:

Select the one level of education and/or experience needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job. Delete those that do not apply.

Education:

A. Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.

Successful completion of DCH IV therapy Certification Course. Certification in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation techniques. Successful completion of DCH Orientation Course, Code Management, HIS/LIS courses, medication orientation course. Special training in the use of chemotherapeutic agents. Experience: Prefer pediatric experience but not required. Oncology experience, as well as chemotherapy preferred but not required. Bilingual a plus.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations.

List the licenses, certificates, or registrations that are required to perform the essential duties of this job.

• Current Texas RN license.
• PALS within one year of hire date (will attend PALS as per availability.)
• CPR certification
• Advanced practice national certification encouraged
• Chemotherapy cerification within 1 year of hire date.