NWIN RN - Clinic, Radiation Oncology, Registry, Day Shift

Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine Chesterton, located in Chesterton, Indiana as a Radiation Oncology Nurse (RN). 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 clinics 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