Chemo & Wound Care RN
Melissa Memorial Hospital
Chemo & Wound Care RN
Melissa Memorial Hospital is looking for someone to join our team and manage Chemo & Wound Care operations. Must be willing to learn, be a team player, and have a passion for patient care.
Responsibilities:
Wound Care:
- Assist and plan care for patients with wounds when consulted by a physician
- Demonstrate competence and expertise in daily patient care, providing collaboration, direction, and instruction to staff in the application and use of current wound care products and resources.
- Promote a team approach through collaboration with the physician, registered dietician, physical therapist, staff nurses, and family members
- Serve as a patient advocate
- Provide safe care according to legal, ethical, and institutional standards.
- Serve as consultant to patient, family, staff.
- Participate in setting standards and protocols for pressure ulcer prevention.
- Assist physician with procedures and dressing changes
- EMR documentation for appropriate wound care points and scribe for physician as needed.
- Maintain up to date wound care knowledge through symposiums, professional journals, conferences, etc., and shares in this information with staff.
- Responsible for maintaining customer friendly atmosphere
- Promote fiscal responsibility in the use of wound care resources
- Models and reinforces behavior consistent with goals for teaching the patient, communicates patient status to appropriate member of the healthcare team, and provides support to the family, as needed.
- Monitors the prevalence and incidence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and takes steps to correct problem
- Ensures adequate materials are available for patients with wounds
- Assess patients upon initial consult and re-evaluates at least weekly
- Assist nurses with complicated dressing changes and with dressing suggestion with or without consult
- Responsible for maintaining Patient Safety goals.
Chemotherapy:
- Healthcare personnel who have contact with the patient, their waste, associated equipment, etc., will have special training to be aware of the safety concerns of handling the drugs, waste products and the patient during their stay at MMH (Melissa Memorial Hospital).
- The curricula for RN’s administering chemotherapy and biotherapy will include current and evidence–based content regarding:
- Demonstrate proficiency regarding the safe preparation, storage, transport, handling, spill management, administration, and disposal of chemotherapy drugs and equipment.
- Knowledge of chemotherapy drugs and the associated nursing implications
- Knowledge of necessary technical skills required for the administration of chemotherapy agents
- Identify appropriate physical and laboratory assessments for specific chemotherapy agents.
- Demonstrate skill in venipuncture, including vein selection and sterile technique.
- Demonstrate skill in care and use of various VADs
- Identify patient and family education needs in relation to specific chemotherapy agents.
- Identify acute local or systemic reactions as a result of extravasation or anaphylaxis in association with specific chemotherapy drugs, and appropriate interventions.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the safe administration of chemotherapy and disposal of chemotherapy wastes and equipment.
- Verbalize knowledge of institutional policies and procedures regarding chemotherapy administration.
- Demonstrate skills and knowledge of Hazardous compounding room monitoring and procedural duties to maintain proper environment within the Compounding suite
- Document pertinent information in the medical record
Minimum Qualifications:
Required Skills
Nurses will complete ONS Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Certification Course.
Nurses will complete high-risk medication test annually or as required.
The length of time spent in the supervised clinical practicum should be individualized depending on the nurse’s ability and skill in meeting the specific objectives and institutional standards.
Nurses will successfully complete the evaluation tool, ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice annually.
Required Experience
RN License
Current BCLS certification.
ONS (Oncology Nurses Society) Chemotherapy/Biotherapy certification preferred, this training will be provided if candidate has not obtained it before hiring.
2 Years direct patient care on Medical-Surgical Unit.
2 Years Chemotherapy experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Skills
Preferred Experience
3 years direct patient care on Medical-Surgical Unit.
1-2 years wound care experience.
Wound care nurse certification.
What we offer:
- 100% Employer paid Medical (Employee Only)
- Dental and Vision insurance
- Retirement Plans, with up to 3% employer match
- Voluntary Group Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Gym Membership Discounts
- Paid Time Off
- Continuing Education Benefits
- Cafeteria
About Us:
Melissa Memorial Hospital is a 13-bed critical access hospital, located in Holyoke, Colorado. Holyoke is home to the Holyoke Dragons and is truly a “City of Pride and Progress.” Holyoke offers an airport, indoor swimming pool, 18-hole golf course, ball fields, skateboard park, tennis courts, fishing ponds, parks, camping facilities, motels, a movie theater, many churches, a nice variety of restaurants and many unique stores ready for you and residents to enjoy.
It’s also home to the Phillips County Historical Society Museum, the County Fair, and two facilities on the historical register, The Burge Hotel and the Heginbotham Library. The county seat of Phillips County, Holyoke sits on the golden plains of northeastern Colorado and is composed of four communities, Amherst, Haxtun, Holyoke and Paoli. Holyoke has two major highways running through the community, Hwy. 385 & 6 and agriculture is our main economic force, with excellent dry land and irrigated cropland to grow wheat, corn, dry edible beans, popcorn, and alfalfa. For those interested in pheasant hunting, Phillips County has over 30,000 acres of walk-in access land.
Melissa Memorial Hospital is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.