RN, Infusion - Nantucket

Site:
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.



Job Summary

The Chemotherapy/IV therapy Nurse functions as an experienced clinical Registered Nurse in coordinating patient care and collaborating with other care providers and health team members to provide high-quality care of patients needing outpatient infusion therapy. This nurse acts as a patient guide and advocate by assisting patients and families to seek information, ensuring informed consent regarding treatment decisions and promoting the maximal level of patient-desired independence.

This nurse is accountable for delivering care to the patient within the framework of the nursing process. This is a clinical position assuming department wide responsibility.

Qualifications


Essential

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Assessment:
The IV Therapy Nurse systematically and continually collects data regarding the health status of the patient. This data is communicated in a timely manner with other members of the health care team as needed.

• Collects pertinent objective and subjective data in a timely manner, ongoing, systematic, and culturally competent manner.
• Collects data from multiple sources, including the patient, the family, the interdisciplinary cancer care team members, and the community using appropriate assessment techniques.
• Uses theoretical and evidence-based concepts in nursing to assess individual patient populations.
• Collects data in problem areas that may include but are not limited to health promotion, patient/family education, coping, comfort, nutrition, complementary and alternative medicine, protective mechanisms, mobility, gastrointestinal and urinary function, sexuality, cardiopulmonary function, oncology emergencies, end-stage renal disease, psychosocial issues and palliative and end-of-life care.

• Determines nursing diagnoses and potential problem statements from assessment data.
• Formulates nursing diagnoses that conform to an accepted classification system.
• Develops individualized nursing diagnoses that are physically, psychosocially, spiritually, and culturally appropriate to the patient.
• Ensures nursing diagnoses reflect the patient’s actual or potential health problems.
• Validates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary care team when possible.

• Initiates patient plan of care using assessment data upon admission based on age specific needs.
• Incorporates in the patient plan of care the:
• Nursing diagnosis specific to the patient’s actual problems/needs.
• Nursing diagnosis which reflects complex etiology.
• Individual teaching plans using identified teaching needs.
• Nursing interventions consistent with nursing diagnosis and etiology.
• Attainable goals with target dates.
• Documents nursing intervention and…