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Job description
Radiation Oncology Nurse (RN)
Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine Chesterton, located in Chesterton, Indiana.
UChicago Medicine is an integrated academic and community health system with multiple primary medical facilities within the surrounding suburbs of Chicago. UChicago Medicine, Crown Point is a two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana, the academic health system's largest off-site facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana.
Essential Job Functions:
Conducts, responds to, follow up on, and triages patient phone calls to the physician as appropriate
Assists physician in clinic or procedure area with patient examinations, diagnostic tests and/or therapeutic procedures
Counsels patients concerning lifestyle modifications, medication regimens, side effects, and interactions using an appropriate psychosocial communication level
Communicates to clinic coordinators follow-up appointments, ancillary and/or pre-operative testing and scheduling needed for patient
Arranges patient admissions; coordinates ordering of tests/procedures with fellows, attending, and other nursing staff
Assists physicians in coordination of research programs by screening patients for acceptance into clinical research and outcome programs. Maintains office file notes, reviews charts, enters data for sectional demographic data base, assists in summarization and analysis of data
Qualifications:
Must have experience working in a community health setting
License/Certifications:
A Bachelor's degree in Nursing
Must be an actively licensed Registered Nurse in the state of Indiana
Position Details:
Job Type/FTE: Registry
Shift: Days
Work Location: Onsite
Unit/Department: Radiation Oncology
CBA Code: Non-Union
Worksite address
crown point, IN, 46307, US
Who can apply
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