Nursing Assistant - Cancer Services - Casual

Job Summary

Location:

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Address: 933 E Pierce St.

- Council Bluffs, IA.

Work Schedule:

Typical shift coverage 7a-3p, Monday-Friday. This is a casual/PRN position. Casual/PRN employees work on an ‘as needed’ basis; work days/hours vary.

The role includes preparing exam rooms and equipment, scheduling patient appointments, performing patient instruction, and ensuring efficient workflow.

• Prepares exam rooms and equipment
  • Performance Measures:
    Prepare exam rooms and medical equipment according to physician protocol 95% of the time.
  • Turn rooms around timely at the beginning, in-between patients, and at the end of clinic day.
  • Independently manage ordering, stocking, and supplying of medical supplies for the clinic; correspond with linen, CSR, sterile processing, other departments as needed.
  • Independently manage equipment sterilization; ensure equipment returned to appropriate area in acceptable time.
  • Maintain work areas with stocking, cleaning, and organizing equipment and rooms.
• Prepares patient for provider exam
  • Performance Measure:
    Prepare patients for exam by following physician protocol 95% of the time.
  • Bring patients back and prepare them for exam following physician protocol.
  • Obtain accurate medical history, vitals, etc.; pass information to physician appropriately; stay in room during exam to document as directed.
  • Obtain practitioner requested tests, records, and lab work.
• Front desk requirements
  • Serve as backup to the front desk to answer phones, assist intake, scheduling, and manage medical records when directed.
  • Display professionalism when answering the phone.
  • Always appear willing to help a customer/patient.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned by management.
• Telephone triage
  • Performance Measures:
    Receive and return patient phone calls in a timely manner based on medical priority 95% of the time.
  • Accurately record and report patient's condition; report findings/follow‑up questions to provider as directed.
• Prescription renewal/inquiries
  • Performance Measures:
    Handle prescription refills according to department/physician direction.
  • Handle prescription renewals/inquiries in a timely manner and with accuracy.
• Patient and family education
  • Performance Measures:
    Educate/instruct patients according to provider direction 95% of the time.
  • Provide educational material including books, brochures, websites, and other resources.
  • Explain/review education material to patient and family as directed.
• Schedules patients for surgery/diagnostic testing
  • Performance Measures:
    Schedule patients for surgery accurately 95% of the time.
  • Schedule according to physician preferences.
  • Correspond with appropriate departments to coordinate specific procedures as instructed.
• Maintains doctors' surgery/office schedules
  • Performance Measures:
    Maintain surgery schedules adequately 98% of the time.
• Handles surgery/diagnostic testing process
  • Performance Measures:
    Follow process for patient registration 98% of the time.
  • Notify patients of all surgery details including when and where to report.
  • Schedule preoperative testing and physicals with primary care physicians/specialists.
  • Ensure preoperative information from specialist/primary care physician is completed and within normal limits; report abnormalities to surgeon.
  • Confirm and document all surgery instructions with patient.
  • Notify consulting and referring physicians of procedures.
• Assist providers with patient treatment
  • Assist with office biopsies and aspirations; set up sterile equipment; document specimen containers.
  • Clean and disinfect procedure room per standard procedures.
  • Use time‑out procedure as required by hospital.
  • Deliver specimens to pathology department in a timely manner.
• Maintains clinical database
  • Enter and maintain patient database tracking personal history staging information for physician use.
  • Maintain database for noninvasive breast cancer patients per NCCN guidelines.
  • Maintain database for invasive breast cancer patients per NCCN guidelines.
  • Member of Breast Leadership Program; attend meetings; assist in NAPBC accreditation.
  • Maintain survivorship database with NCCN and NAPBC compliance; distribute and review with patients.

Typical shift…