Registered Nurse - Oncology

Overview

Oncology - Medical Oncology and Infusion - St. Johnsbury, VT

40 hours per week, Monday-Friday

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) to join our medical oncology and infusion team at Dartmouth Cancer Center-St. Johnsbury. This person must have an unwavering commitment to professionalism, nursing excellence, and teamwork.

This position requires empathy, critical thinking, flexibility and the desire to thrive in an ever-changing nursing specialty. Oncology experience is preferred but we will train the right person.In this role, you will provide exceptional care to patients with cancer, helping them navigate the physical and emotional complexities of diagnosis, treatment, symptom management, infection prevention and recovery. Primary responsibilities of this position include working in our patient access room and infusion room and can include the following:

1. Patient Assessment and Care: Conduct comprehensive assessments to determine patient needs, including physical, emotional, and psychosocial aspects.2. CVAD and peripheral phlebotomy, IV access, care and maintenance3. Chemotherapy and Infusion Therapy: Administer chemotherapy, biotherapy, and other IV medications according to protocols and safety guidelines.4. Symptom Management: Monitor and manage symptoms and side effects related to cancer and cancer treatments5. Patient/Family Education: Provide education to patients and families on cancer, treatment plans, medication management, side effects and self-care strategies.6. Patient-centered care, critical thinking and commitment to supporting patients and their families throughout their cancer journey.7. Collaborate with ancillary departments, healthcare teams and physicians to support patients individualized needs.

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics:

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000.
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement.
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan.
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs.
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model.
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment.
• Dartmouth Hitchcock's Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center set right in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We recognize that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary, and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This all means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic in the “Upper Valley” of New Hampshire is a line on the ski mountain at the chair lift.

Read more about Dartmouth Health and why YOU should work here.

The Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s; member hospitals, and 30 Dartmouth Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast, and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities - both career and personal - truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site to learn more and apply:

Please visit:  https://dhnursing.org/nursing-careers/

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

Responsibilities

The Clinical Nurse is an engaged and credentialed member of the Professional Nursing Organization and is responsible for autonomous practice directed by the professional tenets of practitioner, leader/decision maker, scientist and transferor. The Clinical 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.

Practitioner

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.

Leader/Decision Maker

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.

Scientist

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) preferred.

Required Licensure/Certifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse with NH and VT eligibility.
• BLS Certificate required upon hire
• Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Certificate (CHIC) within 30 days of hire date.