Baptist Health Medical Group
RN
Cardiology
St. Matthews area
Full time/First shift
The Oncology Clinic Nurse works in Oncologists’ office to educate patients, coordinate care. An Oncology Nurse collaborates closely with individual patients and often becomes a constant for the patient, which can provide comfort and consistency. An Oncology Nurse should have a strong understanding of cancer treatments and research to support patients. Being an Oncology Nurse requires prerequisite skills and qualifications, including the ability to adapt quickly to changing situations. Collaboration to work well with other care providers. Ability to build relationships and a strong attention to details to notice changes in patients. Willingness to advocate for patients.
Essential Duties:
Provides general patient care and education while collaborating with Physicians and other healthcare team members to deliver safe and effective patient care. Functions effectively in emergency situations.
Summarizes the status of patients by giving a pertinent and concise report to other care providers as indicated by patient condition.
Individualizes treatment care plans for each patient for review and approval by physicians on date of treatment and prioritizes and implements physician orders.
Provides patient care according to appropriate policy and procedure as well as oncology nursing guidelines.
Maintains knowledge of chemotherapy drugs and accepted treatment plans and builds and updates chemotherapy care plans based on physicians’ orders.
Monitors adherence with treatment plans and communicates with specialty pharmacies or oral chemo clinic pharmacists for oral chemotherapy.
Completes prescription refills within the scope of the certification for this position.
Obtains pre-authorization of medications as required.
Coordinates lab work and any specific additional required testing.
Triages patient phone calls and ensuring calls are addressed appropriately to avoid delay of care.
Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required:
Associate Degree in Nursing or higher from an accredited school.
Active/unrestricted RN licensure in Kentucky or state of location of the practice.
Must maintain an active Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association or American Red Cross.
Previous experience in chemotherapy administration or outpatient infusion preferred.
RN, Registered Nurse, Cardiology
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
