Full Time 40 weekly hours, day shift
CBC Oncology Center:
Baptist Consulting in Blood Disorders and Cancer is conveniently located on the Baptist Hospital East campus near the corner of Breckenridge Lane and Kresge Way. Open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., CBC offers services including:
Diagnostic Imaging
Laboratory Services
Pharmacy
Research and Data Management
Social Services
Oncology Nursing
Administrative Services
Post-Treatment Counseling
The RN uses the nursing process to collect pertinent patient information needed to determine physical and psychological needs, address and identify health problems, performs selected treatments and chemotherapy, diagnostic procedures and routine duties. The RN functions as a member of the healthcare team with responsibilities commensurate with educational preparation, training and demonstrated competencies. Direct patient care is provided to adult and geriatric patients.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
The following is a summary of the major functions of this individual's job. He or she may perform other duties, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below, and specific functions may change from time to time.
1. Assesses and documents patient status, including labs, diagnostic tests, and patient’s understanding of chemotherapy and other planned treatment.
2. Provides care according to appropriate policy and procedure as well as oncology nursing guidelines
3. Provides pertinent education to patient regarding care and symptom management
4. Evaluates patient response to therapy
5. Collaborates with members of healthcare team—physicians, social worker, pharmacist, etc.—in the provision of safe and effective patient care
6. Demonstrates organizational and leadership skills
Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required:
A. Graduation from an accredited program of professional nursing.
B. Active KY Registered Nurse license
C. BSN required.
D. BCLS preferred.
E. Oncology experience is preferred.
F. ONS Chemotherapy/Biotherapy certification within six months of hire, maintain to remain current and updated every two years.
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.
