Registered Nurse (RN)-Infusion Clinic
Summary Position Summary To safely administer chemotherapeutic agents and non-chemotherapeutic agents to patients in the Infusion Services Suite.
Displays clinical proficiency, which includes the management and safe delivery of age-specific patient centered care (encompassing young adult to geriatric clients) through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of overt and covert changes in clinical conditions of oncology and non-oncology patients in accordance with prescribed standards.
Provides care and instruction to patients and families from a basis of specialized knowledge in oncology nursing.
Nursing expertise and clinical knowledge develop over time and are acquired through experience and exposure to different practice situations.
Nurses must utilize multiple ways of thinking in order to cultivate the essential skills of clinical reasoning, critical thinking and clinical judgment.
These skills will continue to develop as they progress through the stages of a career on their journey from novice to expert.
Competence in these areas develops over a continuum and can be measured throughout each of these stages.
The evaluator considers the expected stage of competency when rating the degree to which the nurse is performing.
Stage 1:
Novice Beginners, because they have no experience with the situations in which they are expected to perform, must depend on rules to guide their actions.
Following rules, however, has its limits.
No rule can tell novices which tasks are most relevant in real life situations.
The novice will usually ask to be shown or told what to do.
Stage 2:
Advanced Beginner An advanced beginner is one who has coped with enough real situations to note (or to have them pointed out by a mentor) the recurrent meaningful aspects of situations.
An advanced beginner needs help setting priorities since she/he operates on general guidelines and is only beginning to perceive recurrent meaningful patterns.
The advanced beginner cannot reliably sort out what is most important in complex situations and will require help to prioritize.
Stage 3:
Competent Typically, the competent professional has been in practice two or three years.
This person can rely on long-range goals and plans to determine which aspects of a situation are important and which can be ignored.
The competent professional lacks the speed and flexibility of someone who has reached the proficient level, but competence is characterized by a feeling of mastery and the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of practice.
Stage 4:
Proficient This is someone who perceives a situation as a whole rather than in terms of parts.
With holistic understanding, decision-making is less labored since the professional has a perspective on which of the many attributes and aspects present are the important ones.
The proficient performer considers fewer options and hones in on the accurate region of the problem.
Stage 5:
Expert The expert professional is one who no longer relies on an analytical principle (rule, guideline, and maxim) to connect an understanding of the situation to an appropriate action.
With an extensive background of experience, the expert has an intuitive grasp of the situation and focuses in on the accurate region of the problem without wasteful consideration of a larger range of unfruitful possibilities.
(Adapted from Benner, 1984, pp.
13-34) Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) Education:
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
License/Certifications:
Current licensure on the State of Maine Board of Nursing.
Current BLS Certification.
Oncology Nurse Certification preferred (or attained within three years of hire).
Experience:
Two years nursing experience with one year of Chemotherapy/Oncology nursing.
ONS Provider Card required.
ONC Basic Card must be current.
Articulates elements of professional practice and demonstrates:
Knowledge of Evidence Based Practice and Patient and Family Centered Care Understanding of teamwork and collaboration Effective verbal/written communication skill Knowledge of process improvement and sound safety strategies Competence with computer applications Completion of departmental competencies within one month of hire.
Completion of Infusion Services CBO tool, to include Chemotherapy/Biotherapy, within one year of hire Recommended Skills Basic Life Support Business Process Improvement Clinical Works Communication Critical Thinking Decision Making Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Displays clinical proficiency, which includes the management and safe delivery of age-specific patient centered care (encompassing young adult to geriatric clients) through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of overt and covert changes in clinical conditions of oncology and non-oncology patients in accordance with prescribed standards.
Provides care and instruction to patients and families from a basis of specialized knowledge in oncology nursing.
Nursing expertise and clinical knowledge develop over time and are acquired through experience and exposure to different practice situations.
Nurses must utilize multiple ways of thinking in order to cultivate the essential skills of clinical reasoning, critical thinking and clinical judgment.
These skills will continue to develop as they progress through the stages of a career on their journey from novice to expert.
Competence in these areas develops over a continuum and can be measured throughout each of these stages.
The evaluator considers the expected stage of competency when rating the degree to which the nurse is performing.
Stage 1:
Novice Beginners, because they have no experience with the situations in which they are expected to perform, must depend on rules to guide their actions.
Following rules, however, has its limits.
No rule can tell novices which tasks are most relevant in real life situations.
The novice will usually ask to be shown or told what to do.
Stage 2:
Advanced Beginner An advanced beginner is one who has coped with enough real situations to note (or to have them pointed out by a mentor) the recurrent meaningful aspects of situations.
An advanced beginner needs help setting priorities since she/he operates on general guidelines and is only beginning to perceive recurrent meaningful patterns.
The advanced beginner cannot reliably sort out what is most important in complex situations and will require help to prioritize.
Stage 3:
Competent Typically, the competent professional has been in practice two or three years.
This person can rely on long-range goals and plans to determine which aspects of a situation are important and which can be ignored.
The competent professional lacks the speed and flexibility of someone who has reached the proficient level, but competence is characterized by a feeling of mastery and the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of practice.
Stage 4:
Proficient This is someone who perceives a situation as a whole rather than in terms of parts.
With holistic understanding, decision-making is less labored since the professional has a perspective on which of the many attributes and aspects present are the important ones.
The proficient performer considers fewer options and hones in on the accurate region of the problem.
Stage 5:
Expert The expert professional is one who no longer relies on an analytical principle (rule, guideline, and maxim) to connect an understanding of the situation to an appropriate action.
With an extensive background of experience, the expert has an intuitive grasp of the situation and focuses in on the accurate region of the problem without wasteful consideration of a larger range of unfruitful possibilities.
(Adapted from Benner, 1984, pp.
13-34) Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) Education:
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
License/Certifications:
Current licensure on the State of Maine Board of Nursing.
Current BLS Certification.
Oncology Nurse Certification preferred (or attained within three years of hire).
Experience:
Two years nursing experience with one year of Chemotherapy/Oncology nursing.
ONS Provider Card required.
ONC Basic Card must be current.
Articulates elements of professional practice and demonstrates:
Knowledge of Evidence Based Practice and Patient and Family Centered Care Understanding of teamwork and collaboration Effective verbal/written communication skill Knowledge of process improvement and sound safety strategies Competence with computer applications Completion of departmental competencies within one month of hire.
Completion of Infusion Services CBO tool, to include Chemotherapy/Biotherapy, within one year of hire Recommended Skills Basic Life Support Business Process Improvement Clinical Works Communication Critical Thinking Decision Making Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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