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Eligibility as Current/Previous Employee: Must disclose previous employment on your resume or elsewhere within the submission for a DNU check.
Required Skills/Experience:
Recent or active chemotherapy administration skills are required.
Vascular access skills, including peripheral IVs, port access, and Hickman/PICC maintenance, are required.
Strong pharmacologic knowledge is required.
Strong ability to manage hypersensitivity reactions is required.
Strong skills in lab evaluations and understanding their relationship to oncology treatments are required.
Unit Details:
This is an outpatient setting; formal ratios do not apply, but the unit tries to limit nurses to 4 active infusions at a time.
The unit treats oncology patients with varied diagnoses, including long, complicated Cisplatin, FOLFOX, and FOLFIRI cases.
The unit frequently manages hypersensitivity reactions.
Oncology treatments include Zometa, Reclast/zoledronic acid, hydration, blood transfusions, and various injections.
Community patients receive iron, Reclast, albumin, blood transfusions, hydration, Prolia injections, rabies-series injections, and short- or long-term antibiotics.
RNs titrate drips, including IVIG, rituximab, Remicade, IV Darzalex, Ocrevus, and blood transfusions.
Most patients are ambulatory and independent with activities of daily living.
Basic oxygen equipment is used on the unit.
Telemetry is not used on this unit, and RNs do not read strips.
Shift & Scheduling:
One weekend day per 4-week schedule.
Nurses self-schedule; schedules are balanced, and travelers are the first to be adjusted if needed.
No call at this time.
Holiday requirements are largely governed by the CNA contract; the manager did not have to mandate holiday coverage last year, and patient load is typically very light on holidays.
Floating Requirements:
The nurse is first to float to inpatient units to provide inpatient chemotherapy.
Special Requests:
Cannot apply to more than one job order on the same unit and shift at the facility.
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