Registered Nurse - Infusion
Location
West Palm Beach, FL | United States
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About the Facility - West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center (WPBVAMC) The West Palm Beach VAMC offers a full range of patient care services, as well as comprehensive medical education and residency programs and limited research. The West Palm Beach VA Medical Center provides health services to veterans throughout South Florida and the Treasure Coast at its main facility in West Palm Beach and six contractor-operated community-based outpatient clinics in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Fort Pierce, Okeechobee, Stuart, and Vero Beach.
Facility Address: 7305 North Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL 33410
INFUSION RESPONSIBILITIES (listed are included but not limited to) - Obtains patient history and pertinent family histories.
- Assess patients and plan appropriate nursing care.
- Document plan of care and care provided in patient's medical record.
- Verify transcriptions of physician's orders, no verbal orders are to be accepted.
- Carry out prescribed physician orders and document in patient's medical record.
- Communicate pertinent patient data to charge nurse and or physician as appropriate.
- Re-assess patient's condition and revise plan of care based on identified nursing problem.
- Administers medication and IV therapies.
- Possess knowledge of actions and usual dosages of most used emergency drugs and their location on crash cart.
- Assess and document patient response to medication that have been administered.
- Reorganizes and initiates appropriate measures in emergencies.
- Instructs patient/family regarding prescribed medications/therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that must be accomplished.
- Assesses patient/family knowledge level, implement plan of instructions and record patient/family demonstrated level of understanding.
- Operates defibrillator, EKG machines and cardiac monitor.
- Participates in discharge planning, as appropriate.
- Can initiate life saving measures in the absence of physicians.
Chemotherapy Certified RN provides the following additional services: - Performs administration of chemotherapy to patients on Oncology Units or in Chemo Clinic in accordance with Medical Center Policies from the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice.
- Understands the principals of chemotherapy and the various chemotherapeutic agents.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the fundamentals of chemotherapy administration, safety measures for administration of chemotherapy, treatment schedules, and pretreatment and treatment.
- Possesses knowledge of complications of Cytotoxic Therapy and the correct interventions to initiate for them.
- Demonstrates competency in the management of patients receiving chemotherapy with specific skills in assessment, patient education, toxicity management, and oncologic emergencies.
Infusion RN - Qualifications - Shall have a current license in at least one State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States of the District of Columbia
- Minimum one year of experience in the last three years.
- Current AHA BLS certification.
- Chemotherapy Certification (ONS/ONCC Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Certificate) of the Infusion RN is preferred but not required.
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