Registered Nurse - Clinical Nurse Coordinator - Overlake Clinic

Fred Hutch Cancer Center; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Bellevue, WA is hiring a Registered Nurse to join an interdisciplinary care team dedicated to patient-centered care. You will perform nursing assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, and integrate research findings into clinical practice.

This 1.0 FTE role at the Overlake Clinic offers four 10-hour shifts, patient education, symptom triage by phone or email, and coordination of care with various services.

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current Washington State RN Multistate License (MSL) or ability to update to WA MSL within 60 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Assess physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and evaluate patients' adaptation to health changes.
• Develop and modify a plan of care based on disease, symptoms, and response to treatment.
• Educate patients and families on disease processes, treatment, side effects and symptom management.
• Coordinate with interdisciplinary team to ensure continuity of care.
• Refer patients and families to appropriate clinical resources and professionals.
• Provide direct patient care including education on chemotherapy, central lines, injections, dressing changes and medication administration.
• Handle telephone and email symptom triage and new patient orientation.
• Support and coordinate outside clinical care and ensure continuity with external providers.
• Attend team meetings and collaborate with infusion RN and care team to meet patient needs.
• Participate in continuing education and quality improvement initiatives.

Education

Graduate from an accredited school of nursing

Washington State RN Multistate License (MSL) or ability to update to WA MSL

Current BLS Provider Card

Critical thinking and clinical judgment

Time management and independent organization

Job description

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world's deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

The Registered Nurse is a member of an interdisciplinary care team. This role provides patient centric care and is primarily responsible for nursing assessment and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

This position will be 1.0FTE/full-time Monday-Friday, four 10 hour shifts from 7:30am-6pm, days of the week to be determined. This position will be located at the Overlake Clinic in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities

• Assesses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and evaluates patients' adaptation to health changes
• Develops a plan of care based on patients' disease, symptoms, and response to treatment
• Educates patients, families, and caregivers on disease processes, treatment, side effects and symptom management
• Coordinates with inter-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care
• Refers patients, families and caregivers as appropriate to other clinical resources/professionals such as social work, home health care, clinical nutrition, etc.
• Implements, evaluates and modifies plan of care
• Integrates research and evidence based knowledge into clinical practice

Direct Patient Care

• Education patients and families: chemotherapy, central lines, injections, home care
• Telephone and email symptom triage
• Dressing changes, medication administration, injections
• New patient orientation
• Caregiver support
• Assessment of needs for additional supportive care resources
• Prescription refills
• Result reviews

Indirect Patient Care

• Supportive care referrals
• FMLA paperwork, disability paperwork, Ferry passes
• Coordination of outside clinical care
• Ensuring continuity of care with outside providers
• Collaboration with research team for patients on trial

Communication and Teamwork

• Attend regular team meetings with provider and nursing teams
• Coordination of care with ancillary services
• Delegation of tasks to appropriate team members
• Coordinating patient schedules with clinic team
• Collaboration with infusion RN and other members of the care team to assure patient needs are met
• Real-time management and escalation of issues in clinic

Professional Development and Clinic Engagement

• Document all nursing care activities accurately and in a timely fashion.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of patient privacy rights.
• Active participation in continuing education, departmental projects, committee work, and quality improvement initiatives

Qualifications

Required:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• Must have a current Washington State Registered Nurse Multistate License (MSL) or current MSL from another state; and ability to update to MSL with Primary State of Residence to WA within 60 days of hire. This requirement may be waived under specific circumstances, subject to approval.
• Applicants that do not have previous oncology experience will be provided additional training and support
• Current BLS AHA Health Provider Card (or equivalent course, such as by the American Red Cross) and renewal required every two years
• Additional certification may be required dependent upon department.
• Critical thinking; the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge
• Ability to develop clinical judgment.
• Time Management skills; the ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently
• Ability to communicate effectively by looking and listening for cues, asking open-ended questions, exploring cues, usi