Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Oncology - $36-54 per hour
Company: Inova Health System
Location: Oxon Hill
Posted on: September 27, 2024
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Job Description:
Job DescriptionInova Health System is seeking a Registered Nurse
(RN) Oncology for a nursing job in Oxon Hill, Maryland.Job
Description & Requirements
Inova Alexandria Hospital is a 318-bed community hospital that
offers a full range of healthcare services and has received
national recognition for healthcare excellence. From babies to
seniors, Inova Alexandria Hospital Provides World-Class Medical
Care. We are dedicated to continually expanding our programs and
services to help ensure we meet the healthcare needs of the
communities we serve today and in the future.Unit 4N is an
award-winning adult medical oncology unit that includes 24 private
rooms. Our unit provides nursing care to medical and oncology
patients in all phases of their disease process, including initial
diagnosis, treatment, recurrence, and palliative and hospice care.
Our care delivery model is to provide family-centered care and team
up with other healthcare providers and departments for quality
patient care and outcomes. The department encourages professional
development by participation in monthly education programs.
Obtaining specialty certifications, ADVANCE Professional Ladder and
attending national conferences.As a Registered Nurse, you will
provide knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care
coordination through an understanding of patients, families, nurses
and healthcare delivery teams. To help achieve our mission, you
will consistently provide safe and therapeutic care in a
holistic/systematic way while incorporating differences into the
provision of care and conducting all patient care in a
patient/family centered manner. Your ability to integrate
knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and
families throughout the continuum, to include patient and family
education, is of vital importance. Communicating effectively and
working cooperatively with others while having respect for and an
understanding of other clinical disciplines is required. Your
ability to determine processes for delivery of care from direct
patient/family communication, technology and other healthcare team
member collaboration is essential.Job ResponsibilitiesPerforms
comprehensive assessments by interpreting multiple, sometimes
conflicting, data sets and synthesizing their
interrelationships.Formulates individualized plans of care based on
assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations
to achieve best practice.Supports and empowers patients/families as
they progress through the healthcare continuum from health
promotion to end of life decisions.Advocates for patients' rights
from the patient/family perspective and provides counsel while
acting as a resource to resolve issues.Anticipates ethical,
spiritual and cultural needs while intervening to maximize patient
outcomes. Coordinates healthcare and alternate services for
patient/family transition planning.Makes clinical decisions based
on experience, patient population data and intuition while
promoting the development of clinical decision making of all team
members.Documents all patient care activities, as per documentation
standards, and assists healthcare team members with
documentation.Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and
contributes to performance improvement initiatives related to
documentation.Provides validation of clinical decisions for other
staff members and seeks validation from others for complex patients
or unfamiliar situations.Collaborates with the healthcare team and
leads other disciplines to meet desired outcomes. Mentors staff in
understanding and advocating for the importance of utilizing
evidence based care initiatives in nursing practice.Evaluates the
process to achieve outcomes, anticipates patient variances and
makes revisions to plans of care.Communicates effectively and works
cooperatively with others.Has respect for and an understanding of
other clinical disciplines.Uses an integrated approach toward
patient outcomes.Demonstrates effective communication skills and
assists in the resolution of conflict among healthcare team
members, patients and families.Collaborates with the
multidisciplinary team and incorporates their expertise to achieve
desired patient outcomes.Keeps informed of unit initiatives and
incorporates outcomes of team/committee work into
practice.Delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit
activities.Assists staff to assess patients' learning needs and
outcomes measurement of patient education.Accesses resources from
all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes.Demonstrates a
willingness to give 100 percent and assist others voluntarily.Works
with the team to achieve maximum productivity.Ensures improvements
in practice settings by assuming responsibility for
self-development in lifelong learning.Demonstrates leadership
skills in decision making and problem solving.Demonstrates role
model and leadership behaviors consistently.Acts as a clinical
resource and serves as a mentor to healthcare team
members.Identifies own learning needs and develops professional
goals.Seeks opportunities to obtain education to enhance
practice.Collaborates in the development and implementation of an
educational plan for identified needs.Reviews self-development plan
and professional goals.Seeks new knowledge toward the progression
of professional goals.Demonstrates evidence of self-development by
obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours.Maintains own Team
Member Continuing Education Record.Provides direction and guidance
to others regarding practice while serving as a resource, preceptor
and mentor.Conducts all patient care in a patient and family
centered manner. Integrates knowledge, skills and experiences to
meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of
care to include patient and family education.Makes clinical
decisions based on experience, patient population data and
intuition.Promotes clinical decision making development in all team
members.Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care
delivery.Ensures that the process for delivery of care is
synthesized from direct patient/family communication, technology
and other healthcare team member collaboration.Serves as an
empowering body to influence patient empowerment and successful
outcomes of financial and clinical quality through relationships
and access based knowledge.
Requirements:At least 1 year of Registered Nurse clinical
experience in the acute care setting.Education: BSN from an
accredited school of nursing.If RN has an Associates Degree (ADN);
must complete BSN within 24 months of start date.BLS for Healthcare
Provider certification required from American Heart Association
(AHA)RN licensed, or eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of
Virginia as an RNInova Job ID #656076. Posted job title: registered
nurse (rn) medical oncology - part time days
Keywords: Inova Health System, Washington DC , Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Oncology - $36-54 per hour, Healthcare , Oxon Hill, DC
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