About this role
Job Requirements
Participates as a member of the Radiation Oncology Team to provide direct care requiring the skills/qualifications of the RN.
Assesses the patient, takes vitals and patient history on their first visit, and reports significant information to the physician.
Serves as a resource in planning care for radiation oncology patients. Identifies need for and initiates patient care conferences.
Models relationship skills with patient and families to prevent poor outcomes and complaints; and to promote high levels of patient/family satisfaction.
Models effective documentation practices. Develops strategies to ensure complete documentation of patient care.
Serves as patient/family advocate during radiation therapy.
Identifies learning needs of staff, patient and family and serves as a resource for education.
Identifies and acts on opportunities to improve quality of service and patient outcomes.
Participates in discharge planning and follow-up care.
Performs nursing review of charts at the end of therapy.
Orders and maintains medical supplies and educational materials for Radiation Oncology and the Multi-Disciplinary Clinics.
Schedules tests, follows up on the results and files the results in the chart.
Performs weekly assessments on the under-treatment patients and documents appropriately.
Maintains established departmental goals, objectives, policies and procedures, quality and safety standards. Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations.
Participates in the placement of applicators for HDR Brachytherapy; performs patient care and monitoring as necessary.
Ensures all reports are filed prior to the patients weekly under-treatment visit.
Work Experience
- Demonstrates organizational competencies per standard.
- Demonstrates an awareness of own learning needs and seeks ways to meet these in order to maintain competency and respond to departmental demands.
- Demonstrates competencies required as outlined in departmental specific criteria.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of adult patients.
o Communicates in an appropriate manner for adult patient level of understanding.
o Introduces self by name, title and role.
o Maintains a safe environment utilizing appropriate equipment and safety devices.
o Identifies changes in pain and reports it to the physician.
o Involves adult in decision making.
o Recognizes signs of abuse and/or neglect.
o Allows adequate time to collect data and for older adult patients to respond to questions.
o Allows time to process information and give responses or ask questions.
o Encourages patients to do as much as they can to preserve function.
o Encourages family support, involves family in care, education and decisions with patient involvement.
Direct Observation Age Specific Competency Validation Tool completed and recorded on the Competency Validation Summary Tool.
Direct Observation Patient Education Competency Validation Tool completed and recorded on the Competency Validation Summary Tool.