Registered Nurse - Transfusion Services

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit, unified adult cancer care and research center that is clinically integrated with UW Medicine, a world leader in clinical care, research and learning. The first National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in the Pacific Northwest, Fred Hutch’s global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy, and COVID-19 vaccines has confirmed our reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy, and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures for the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

 

At Fred Hutch, we believe that the innovation, collaboration, and rigor that result from diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission of eliminating cancer and related diseases. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an antiracist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, antiracism, and inclusion.

 

The Transfusion Services RN provides collaborative support for the transfusion planning and management of the SCCA Transplant, Immunotherapy, Hematology, and Heme-Malignancy patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings.  The RN operates in a multidisciplinary environment and across multiple institutions. 

Responsibilities

• Review patient records for individual patient clinical issues related to transfusion.
• Gather and review transfusion and transplant history to establish the patient transfusion profile.
• Prepare reports to communicate individual patient transfusion profiles to the blood bank serving the patient and patient care teams.
• Gather clinical data regarding transfusion reactions and facilitate appropriate changes to transfusion profile.
• Evaluate, track and process blood bank laboratory reports.
• Review reports to verify transfusion profile across multi-institutional systems.
• Consult and collaborate with inpatient and outpatient care teams.
• Facilitate consultation with the SCCA Transfusion Medicine Attending.
• Help develop and communicate a transfusion plan of care to patient care teams.
• Facilitates and tracks the response of HLA-selected platelets and granulocyte transfusions.
• Provide transfusion educate members to care team and patients with mismatched transplants.
• Serve as a liaison between partner patient-care areas for transfusion issues.

Qualifications

Required:

• BLS is a required from an approved entity as outlined in the Basic and Advanced Life Support Training Verification Policy
• Nursing degree
• Current Washington State nursing license.
• Additional certification may be required dependent upon department. 
• Critical thinking; the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge
• Ability to develop clinical judgment.
• Time Management skills; the ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently
• Ability to communicate effectively by looking and listening for cues, asking open-ended questions, exploring cues, using pauses, screening responses, and clarifying response.
•  Ability to effectively listen by using reflecting, acknowledging, summarizing, empathizing, and paraphrasing skill.
• Ability to effectively provide information by checking what information the person knows already, giving small amounts of information at a time, using clear terms and avoiding jargon, avoiding detail unless it is requested, checking for understanding, and pausing and waiting for a response.

 

Preferred:

 

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Two years of nursing experience

 

A statement describing your commitment and contributions toward greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in your career or that will be made through your work at Fred Hutch is requested of all finalists. 

 

The hourly pay range for this position is from $38.67 to $73.48 and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.  Registered Nurses are paid on a step-scale basis and are also eligible for shift differentials and other pay premiums such as advanced degree, preceptor and certification. 

 

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