Registered Nurse, Hem​/Onc Infusion​/Triage​/Weekends

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The registered nurse, adheres to the rules and regulations of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing. Is primarily responsible for professional performance and direct patient care. The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients and their families across the health care continuum. The registered nurse is accountable for clinical, educational, quality and fiscal patient care outcomes using the model of care designed by the nursing department and in accordance with established agency policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines and standards of practice.

Hem/Onc Infusion Nurse/ Triage/Multi-D clinic

Hematology/Oncology Clinic

30, Hours, with rotating wknds, occasional holiday-MNA

• Consistently and effectively utilizes all steps of the nursing process in the provision of timely, safe, efficient and appropriate patient/centered care.
• Responsibilities include administration of ordered injections, pump disconnects and vaccines, triage telephone calls from patient, families and community or referring office, follow up calls to patients as instructed by the provider, prescription refills, home care referrals, and work closely with providers and nursing in clinic.
• Meets and follows all standards of nursing practice care and standards of professional performance of a registered staff nurse.
• Prioritize incoming calls based on clinical acuity. Determine the severity of the caller's complaint. Direct the caller to the appropriate emergency services if necessary, recommend the suggested medical follow-up based on their assessments and established triage protocols, and provide health information
• Using the nursing process, analyzes the assessment data to determine appropriate nursing diagnoses and facilitates access to the health care system and/or negotiates a satisfactory resolution to the issue.
• Work closely with providers, nurses, and all other members of the medical center staff by demonstrating effective communication, teaching, and negotiating skills.
• Accountable for quality assessment, efficient managed care, and patient satisfaction in collaboration with the health care team. Implements interventions identified in the nursing and medical plan of care.
• Provides and guides patient teaching, counseling, and indicated medical recommendations while maintaining standards of professional nursing practice.
• Document patient/pharmacy requests for prescription refills, reviewing patient medical record and documenting recommended script in the patient medical record for provider review and approval.
• Schedule appointments for the primary care physician group and specialists.
• Review and triage the lab/x-ray results received in the office and notify the medical practitioner of critical values.
• Making follow-up calls to high-risk patients may also involve allowing the nurse to assess changes of status or to ensure that the patient sought the appropriate treatment.
• Documents information provided to patients during triage in any/all applicable electronic health record systems.
• Responsible for communicating to respective physicians any additional documentation/notes from triage event(s) that physician may need for follow-up patient care.
• Performs patient vitals, medication reconciliation, health histories and documents same in electronic medical record for provider review
• Performs pre-visit review of patient information to ensure required information from patient chart, lab results, consults, etc. are available in the electronic medical record for provider during visit
• Evaluates the…