Registered Nurse; RN), Infusion, Registry

Overview

Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine Crown Point, located in Crown Point, Indiana as a Registry Infusion Nurse (RN) at our Valparaiso location. The Infusion Nurse, under the direction of the Attending Physician or a licensed independent Practitioner, provides technically complex and high-risk nursing care services to patients including intravenous infusions and injections for both chemotherapy and non-chemotherapy medications.

• Represents The University of Chicago Medicine (UCMC) positively with the community we serve; interacts effectively with a diverse group of faculty, staff, and other customers; demonstrates knowledge of UCMC operating practices.
• Upholds the Mission Statement of UCMC: to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, mindful of each patient’s dignity and individuality; supports medical innovation, community health needs, and knowledge in caring.
• Handle confidential information consistent with Federal HIPAA legislation.
• Perform a variety of clinical and research procedures with efficiency and high standards; ensure proper protocol for each sedation.
• Provide patient care compassionately and empathetically; apply age-specific considerations in care; involve a multidisciplinary team to support patient and family psychosocial needs.
• Accurately complete required patient assessment, documentation, and interpretations for each encounter; exercise sound professional judgment for timely physician intervention; recognize conditions requiring immediate action and initiate life-support interventions while communicating with physicians.
• Maintain nursing equipment and work areas; report malfunctions; keep areas neat and clean; maintain inventory control of supplies; ensure emergency equipment is available and restocked with fiscal awareness.
• Interface with patients, families, visitors, and staff professionally; apply AIDET principles; accommodate special needs of customers when possible.
• Perform required Quality Assurance testing as indicated or required by UCMC.
• Rotate to clinical areas to assist with safe staffing ratios; transport sedated patients to appropriate areas as needed.
• Assess, treat, and evaluate patient conditions specific to the work area (e.g., anxiety, pain, claustrophobia, underlying diseases); evaluate and treat pain promptly and reassess after interventions, charting per UCMC protocol; provide continuity of care for infant, pediatric, or adult patients based on area of specialty; assist in care of critically ill patients during sedation/procedural encounters; administer high-risk infusion and transfusion (e.g., chemotherapy medicines).

• ONS Chemotherapy Immunotherapy card within 3 months of hire.
• Associate Degree in Nursing; BSN degree or higher preferred.
• Associate Degree Nurses are required to enroll in a BSN program within six to nine months of hire and progress toward and complete their BSN within 30 months; ADN nurses receive 100% tuition reimbursement toward a BSN degree from an accredited program.
• OCN preferred.
• Experience working in a research environment.
• Chemotherapy experience preferred.

• Currently licensed as a Registered Professional Nurse in the state of Indiana.
• Current CPR/BLS through the American Heart Association.

• Job Type/FTE:
  Registry (.10 FTE)
• Shift: Days
• Work Location:
  
  Onsite
• Unit/Department:
  Multispecialty Cancer Clinic - Valparaiso
• CBA Code:
  Non-Union

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