Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics

Registered Nurse (RN) – HemeOnc Cellular Therapy Unit Infusion

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics  •  Lebanon, NH (Hybrid)  •  2 months ago
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Registered Nurse (RN) – HemeOnc Cellular Therapy Unit (HOCT) L2WB Infusion

**This is a Full-time 36 hours a week position Day position.

HemeOnc Cellular Therapy Unit (HOCT) L2WB Infusion

The Registered Nurse is responsible for utilizing the nursing process to provide evidence-based care and to continuously monitor and evaluate practice to ensure safe passage of patients that is in the best interest of populations served. Provide care coordination, oversight, and delivery across the Hem-Onc Infusion Suite. The L2WB Infusion Nurse ensures safe, timely, and efficient chemotherapy administration by performing chemotherapy checks, managing scheduling and throughput, supporting staffing needs, and serving as a clinical resource for providers, schedulers, and nursing staff. This role bridges clinical care and patient experience in this unique ambulatory and inpatient hybrid patient care setting.

HemeOnc Cellular Therapy Unit is part of the Dartmouth Cancer Center at D-H, one of only 57 designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the USA. Level 2 Wing B Infusion (L2WB INF) is a 6-chair and one private patient room mini-infusion suite associated with the 32 bed HemeOnc Cellular Therapy Unit. A unique hybrid patient care area, this space assists with the throughput of HemeOnc patients. Through this infusion suite patients receive chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and CAR T-Cell Therapy. Similar to an infusion center, these patients may also receive supportive care during their appointment in this space. These highly specialized staff will also have the opportunity to resource on the inpatient unit, assist with off unit chemotherapy, and function as an ambulatory infusion nurse.

Responsibilities

  • Utilizes the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care.
  • Utilizes critical thinking and the nursing process to anticipate and recognize changes in patient status, taking action to modify the plan of care or to elevate to the care team as necessary.
  • Practices in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics to advocate for patients, uphold their autonomy in decision-making, ensure informed consent and assist patients in families in expressing self-determination.
  • Actively seeks feedback and acts to improve performance.
  • Engages in the governance of practice.
  • Manages interpersonal relationships for self and with others.
  • Mentors colleagues for the advancement of nursing practice and the profession.
  • Assumes authority and accountability for the nursing care of patients while appropriately delegating elements of care to others members of the care delivery team in accordance with laws, regulations and policies and procedures.
  • Prioritizes and organizes time to optimize patient outcomes.
  • Actively seeks out the most current evidence and standards and applies and translates to daily practice.
  • Role models a culture of inquiry, developing new knowledge by contributing to research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice at the local level.
  • Transferor
  • Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
  • Actively partners with others to effect change that produces positive outcomes through the exchange of knowledge.
  • Precepts the student nurse, nurse extern, nurse resident, experienced clinical nurse and other members of the healthcare team.
  • Performs other duties as required or assigned.
  • Qualifications

    • Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
    • Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) with 1 year of experience.
    • Associate Degree (ADN) prepared nurses with 2 years' experience.
    • Active Chemotherapy Certification (ONS)
    • Minimum 2 years of oncology or infusion nursing experience

    Required Licensure/Certifications

    • Licensed Registered Nurse with New Hampshire eligibility.
    • Basic Life Support (BLS) Certificate required upon hire and as applicable, higher level per unit certification requirements as stated on the grid attached to the AHA and Life Support Policy
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    About Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics

    How can the lifestyle in New Hampshire and Vermont compliment your career? You can have amazing 4-season living with a career at one of the top health systems in the country. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are close to the urban centers of Boston, New York and Montreal, but also offer proximity to the seacoast and multiple top-tier ski mountains within a short driving distance. Throughout New Hampshire, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make our area the ideal place to work and play.

    Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

    Industry
    Healthcare & Social Services
    Company Size
    5,001-10,000 employees
    Headquarters
    Lebanon, New Hampshire
    Year Founded
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