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- Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting. PREFERRED CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
- 2–3+ years of RN experience, preferably in oncology, surgical oncology, perioperative services, or an ambulatory specialty practice.
- Prior outpatient/ambulatory clinic experience strongly preferred.
- Experience caring for preoperative and postoperative surgical patients, including assessment, education, and identification of complications.
- Experience with oncology patients across the continuum of care, including coordination between surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, and supportive services.
- Demonstrated experience with RN telephone/inbasket triage, symptom assessment, clinical prioritization, and appropriate escalation.
- Experience with wound and incision assessment, surgical drains, Foley catheters, voiding trials, bladder scanning, and other common outpatient surgical procedures.
- Experience providing preoperative and postoperative patient education, including surgical preparation, medication instructions, wound/drain care, and recovery expectations.
- Experience coordinating diagnostic imaging, laboratory testing, pathology, medical/cardiac clearance, referrals, and other preoperative requirements.
- Experience with medication reconciliation, refill workflows, anticoagulation considerations, and perioperative medication management protocols.
- Strong experience with care coordination and navigation of medically complex patients.
- Experience identifying and escalating urgent or emergent postoperative symptoms and complications.
- Experience working collaboratively with surgeons, APPs, nurses, schedulers, multidisciplinary oncology teams, and ancillary departments.
- Proficiency with an electronic medical record, preferably Epic, including inbasket management, order workflows, documentation, and chart review.
- Experience working with standardized clinical protocols, standing orders, and evidence-based pathways.
- Experience participating in quality improvement, patient safety, accreditation, or clinical workflow optimization initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to independently prioritize a high-volume workload, manage competing clinical needs, and maintain closed-loop follow-up.
- Strong patient education, communication, critical-thinking, and clinical judgment skills.
1. Education - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn. 2.
Evaluation of Care - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care. 3. Implementation - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning. 4.
Leadership - With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all. 5.
Patient Assessment - Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs. 6. Planning - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems. 7. Research - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.
Other Information Other information: Education
• Graduation from a school of professional nursing. • If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date. Licensure/Certification
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina. • Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification Professional Experience
• One (1) year of nursing experience. Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities
Job Details Legal Employer: NCHEALTH Entity: UNC REX Healthcare Organization Unit: Oncology Surgery Clinic Raleigh Work Type: Full Time Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00 Salary Range: $34.22 - $48.38 per hour (Hiring Range) Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity Work Assignment Type: Onsite Work
Day Job Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
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