Clinical Nurse - Rad Onc SIM\Intervention

Company Overview

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. 

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Job Description

We are:

• Providers of compassionate, evidence-based nursing care to Oncology patients and families living with cancer in a healing and innovative environment
• Nursing at MSK

You are:

• Action-oriented and eager to embrace new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• A good decision-maker, with proven success at making timely decisions that maintains high standards of nursing care within the organization.
• Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged, using both formal and informal development.
• Approachable and comfortable with diverse groups of people and able to make others comfortable with you.
• An effective communicator, capable of determining how best to reach different audiences and executing communications based on that understanding.
• Capable of building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric care.

You will:

• Assess Oncology patients receiving Radiation therapy and associated toxicities in both the inpatient and ambulatory setting.
• Administer IV hydration, electrolyte replacement, and medication administration.
• Perform skin/oral care and voiding trials.
• Care for and administer contrast to patients receiving PET/CT and MRI procedures.
• Insert IVs and place foley Catheter.
• Perform patient assessment and offer patient education and symptom management 

You need:

• New York State RN license and BSN
•  1.5 years of related medical/surgical experience required
•  1.5 -2 years of oncology experience highly preferred
• Oncology patient management strongly preferred
• Patient education skills

Hours: M-F; hours are 7AM to 10PM; flex - (Part-Time)

Closing

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