Registered Nurse; RN - Acute Oncology; South Wage

Overview

Registered Nurse (RN) - Acute Oncology (3 South) Wage role at UVA Health. The Acute Inpatient Oncology Unit is a newly built, 28-room facility specializing in Hematology-Oncology, Gynecology-Oncology, Neuro-Oncology, and Benign Hematology. Nurses care for patients receiving therapies such as BiTE, HiPEC, and ISBT, with RN-to-patient ratios of 1:3 during the day and 1:4  unit offers opportunities for ONS Chemotherapy Certification, research mentorship, and advancement through UVA Health’s Magnet-designated Clinical Career Ladder.

UVA Health is a Magnet-recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. It is recognized by Forbes among America’s best large employers and among the top 25 large health system employers nationally, encompassing multiple hospitals, an NCI-designated cancer center, a leading children’s hospital in Virginia, and an integrated network of clinics.

• Consistently provides effective direct care, as part of the interdisciplinary team, to a variety of complex patients.
• Manage care and implement treatment plans at a refined skill level in collaboration with patients, their families, physicians and other health care team members.
• Seek and provide feedback to improve clinical practice.
• Assume a beginning leadership role but seek mentoring in this process.

ANA Scope And Standards Of Practice Definition Of Nursing: Nursing includes protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human responses, and advocacy in care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations. This job description integrates the ANA Nursing:
Scope and Standards of Practice and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements, and the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.

• Relationship Based Care – Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Relationship Based Care – Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating and implementation of care.
• Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
• Lifelong Learners: professional development through formal education, professional certification, and ongoing learning opportunities; supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
• Quality Achievement: adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, outcomes data, and engagement in performance improvement activities.
• Innovation: application of technologies that support patient care and evidence-based practice.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required within 5 years of hire.
• Experience: 1 year of relevant experience.
• Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.

Standing for prolonged periods, frequent travel, bending/stooping. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; attention to detail and legibility in writing. Ability to lift/push/pull 20–50 lbs. May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

Position Compensation Range: $39.90 - $53.00 Hourly

UVA Health is a Magnet-recognized academic medical center with a level 1 trauma center and a network of hospitals and clinics in Virginia.