Registered Nurse III - Cancer Center Infusion - 12 Hour Days

Job Description

Would you like to be part of an organization that is committed to delivering the highest quality of medical care to our patients? Do you have a passion for using your nursing skills in a state-of-the-art clinical environment? Cedars Sinai offers the most appropriate and current diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in an honest, encouraging, supportive and compassionate manner.

As a Clinical Nurse III, you will deliver direct care to assigned adult and or pediatric patients in an ambulatory setting. Nursing care is delivered using standards of care by following approved policies and procedures.

• Administer Chemotherapy and other Oncology Infusion Treatments
• Assesses appropriately patient care needs and learning needs in routine adult and geriatric populations. Uses new knowledge in routine and less complex patient situations.
• Demonstrates advanced assessment skills, integrating appropriate data sources to assess the signs, symptoms, reactions, behaviors, or general appearance to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics.
• Prioritizes identified patient care problems within assigned patients and assumes responsibility for problem resolution, utilizing all resources as appropriate
• Plans patient care and education based on disease process, anticipated patient outcomes, complications of treatment, and psycho-social needs in collaboration with team members
• Utilizes effective time management to complete all assignments in a timely manner to ensure safety of patients
• Demonstrates competency in use of technical skills as required (i.e., IV therapy equipment utilization, universal precautions, body mechanics
• Participates in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) monitoring to maintain or improve care of designated patient population
• When assigned charge nurse responsibility, coordinates unit activity throughout the shift, including the authorization of incidental overtime, initiates chain of command as appropriate.
  
  

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program required
• BSN preferred
  
  

License/Certifications:

• Current, unrestricted California RN License required
• BLS certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross required
• ONS Chemo Bio certification preferred
• OCN certification required or willing to obtain within one year from start date
  
  

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of acute care nursing experience required
• Chemotherapy infusion experience strongly desired
• Oncology nursing experience preferred
  
  

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring. At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu). For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through March each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment.