Registered Nurse
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Registered Nurse
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Provides advanced cancer care and research
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is Louisiana’s leading cancer care organization, caring for more patients each year than any other facility in the region. And with strategic hospital and physician partnerships, we are delivering on our mission to improve survivorship and lessen the burden of cancer.
Mary Bird Perkins and its partners work together to provide state-of-the-art treatments and unparalleled collaborative, comprehensive cancer services. This culture of innovation helps attract the best cancer minds in the country, from expert physicians and highly specialized scientists to forward-thinking leaders in supportive care and other disciplines.
Together, with our hospital and physician partners, we are one-hundred percent focused on cancer care.
Why Join Us? We are looking for talented and highly-motivated individuals who demonstrate a natural desire to support the meaningful work of community oncologists and the patients we serve.
Job Description:
SCOPE: Provide clinical support to the physician(s) to ensure delivery of quality patient care. The registered nurse, in collaboration with other clinical staff members, will reinforce the standardization of processes, implemented by the Lead Nurse/Practice Manager, throughout the organization with regards to quality measures, best practices and infection control.In addition, duties include training and personal oversight of all nursing competencies, certifications, and licenser required to provide high-quality/compassionate care to our patient population.
FUNCTIONS:
1. Nursing Service Operations
2. Patient education
3. Infection Control
4. Training newly assigned clinical personnel
QUALIFICATIONS:
Active RN license in the state of LA required
ONS/OCN highly preferred
BLS CPR required
3 years of nursing experience in a clinic preferred
Oncology/Infusion nursing experience highly preferred
Provides advanced cancer care and research
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center provides cancer care across a network for more than 50 years, focusing on compassionate, expert treatment and education. What they do: deliver advanced cancer care through diagnosis, treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), early detection, research, and patient education to improve survivorship. How it works: teams of clinicians coordinate care for individuals, combining medical therapies with supportive services to guide patients from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up, plus ongoing research to refine treatments. How it differs from competitors: a long-standing community-based center committed to compassionate care and survivorship, integrating early detection, research, and education under one organization to reduce the burden of cancer for patients and families. Goal: improve survivorship and lessen the burden of cancer by advancing treatment, detection, and education.
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