Job Title: Clinical Nurse III Patient Access Services
Location: Medical Center - Duarte, CA
Schedule Type: Full-Time
Shift: Days
Job Description
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Clinical Nurse III Patient Access Services
Position Summary
Oversees and participates in providing quality access services to prospective and new patients. Performs all duties within the scope of certification utilizing the nursing process within a team approach to total patient focused care. Acts as a patient advocate in all ethical and legal aspects.
Other related job functions:
- Answer telephones
- Coordinate meetings
- Input data into computer programs
- Interview others
- Maintain patient charts
- Delegate tasks
- Coordinate requests
- Instruct/train others
- Troubleshoot problems
- Access data in computer data bases
Perfect Fit:
• Someone with an insatiable curiosity and sense of inquiry to learn why we treat cancer as we do - and to help us achieve the next level of care
• A heartfelt commitment to providing quality, evidence-based care to help patients achieve optimal outcomes.
• An abiding compassion for patients and their families, all of whom are fighting against cancer and for a return to health.
• A holistic view of healthcare, recognizing that professional nurses not only care for the physical symptoms of cancer, but for the mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual manifestations as well.
• A genuine desire to be challenged by a complex patient population that is aging, and may be suffering from co-morbidities like heart disease or diabetes in addition to a cancer diagnosis.
• A contagious enthusiasm for focusing - or refocusing - your career on the sense of vocation that compelled you to choose nursing in the first place.
Minimum Education and Skills Required for Consideration:
- BSN (Bachelors in Nursing)
- Three to five years of Oncology experience.
- Current California RN License
- Data entry and computer experience and knowledge of managed care reimbursement factors preferred.
