RN

Oncology Nurse

Join our team at Lexington Medical Center, consistently named the best hospital, dedicated to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina and the first hospital in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Job Description

• Utilizes the nursing process to promote and restore patient's health status; collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; provides physical and psychological support to patients, family members, and significant others; and supervises assigned team members.
• Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgment, intervention, and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems through activities such as health teaching and the provision of care, supportive and restorative care, and/or support of a peaceful death.

Requirements

• Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma, or Bachelor of Science in Nursing. New graduate RNs who acquire their generic RN education through an online program will not meet LMC minimum qualifications.
• Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina.

Essential Functions

• Establishes positive rapport with patients and families.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patients and families in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments.

Benefits

• Day ONE medical, dental, and life insurance benefits.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance - equal to 1x salary.
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low-cost premiums up to 3x salary.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Student loan forgiveness.

Community Overview

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes six community medical centers and employs more than 8,700 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina's first HeartCARE Center™ and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer's care center, and nearly 80 physician practices. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies.