Registered Nurse

Description

Are you a skilled and compassionate RN with a passion for oncology care? RCCA is excited to welcome an Infusion RN to our dynamic team in Little Silver, NJ. In this fast‑paced role, you’ll provide essential infusion therapy to our oncology patients, making a significant impact on their care journey.

Elevate your career and make a difference with RCCA. Apply now to become a vital member of our team dedicated to transforming cancer care!

Employment Type:

Full Time

Location:

Little Silver, NJ

Compensation: $40.00 - $46.00 per hour

Compensation packages based on your unique skills, experience, and qualifications.

• Health, dental, and vision plans
• Wellness program
• Health savings account – Flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Short‑term disability insurance
• Long‑term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and holiday pay
• Tuition discounts with numerous universities

• Must demonstrate a sound knowledge of the nursing processes; health care systems, structure, and functions; and community resources.
• Demonstrates understanding of healthcare technology, equipment, and supplies.
• Demonstrates familiarity with state law on nursing care, nurse practice guidelines, and RCCA Central Jersey Division policies and procedures.
• Utilizes nursing judgment in the decision‑making process when responding to patient calls and questions.
• Demonstrates critical thinking using logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive status.
• Formulates a goal‑directed plan of care, prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcome.
• Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent, and compassionate manner.
• Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the care given by all health‑care team members. This includes environmental factors and instrumentation in the progression of the patient toward outcomes.
• Demonstrates sound knowledge of the ONS and OSHA guidelines.
• IV therapy techniques reflect a sound knowledge base of the principles of practice.
• Chemotherapy administration techniques reflect a sound knowledge base of the principles of practice.
• Demonstrates knowledge of medical record documentation requirements and federal/state laws related to the release of health care information.
• Maintains and demonstrates knowledge of telephone‑based clinical assessment techniques.
• Demonstrates knowledge of medical practice telephone triage protocols.
• Demonstrates knowledge of appropriate home health information to follow until a visit with the physician, if they do not need immediate hospitalization.
• RNs should be familiar with the most common side effects of each drug they are administering. They should ask the patient if they are experiencing any of these specific side effects before administering subsequent cycles of the drug.

• Demonstrates competency in physical assessment of oncology and hematology patients.
• Demonstrates competency in all aspects of chemotherapy administration, monoclonal antibody therapy, IV therapy, subcutaneous and intramuscular injection administration.
• Knowledgeable and practices within the ONS guidelines during any adverse event while administering chemotherapy, i.e. extravasations, infiltrations, or chemotherapy spill incidents.
• Demonstrates competency in the use of all intravenous access devices, including the intra‑hepatic infusion pumps.
• Must demonstrate proficiency in performing all laboratory testing on‑site, including documentation and QC.
• Obtain blood specimens for analysis by fingerstick or venipuncture depending on the specific test ordered.
• Review all specimens for acceptability.
• Educate patients on the proper technique for the collection of midstream urine samples for culture.
• Collects specimens for culture using the sterile technique for blood…