Breast Center Staff Nurse
 Brigham and Women's Hospital | |
 United States, Massachusetts, Boston | |
| 45 Francis Street (Show on map) | |
 Jan 21, 2025 | |
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Excellent Care to Patients and Families * The Best Staff * In the Safest Environment
Nursing at Brigham and Women's Hospital is known for their excellent clinical practice and for keeping patients and their families at the center of all they do. We understand that great care is shaped by relationships with patients and their families. That's why we're committed to knowing our patients on a deeper level - not just as patients, but as individuals - to ensure that they, and their families, feel known and cared for. At BWH, we proudly work together with a spirit of inquiry and a deep commitment to providing the highest quality, evidence-informed and theory-guided care in an inclusive environment. We work each day to achieve our vision - to provide excellent care to patients and families, with the best staff, in the safest environment. Just as we have been able to reinvent healthcare, we have also transformed healthcare careers. Whether measured in terms of lives saved, awards earned, or the personal satisfaction of stretching your talents - a career with BWH is unlike any other in the healthcare field. Here you'll find a workplace where collaboration and teamwork are the norm, not the exception - physicians, nurses, technicians, staff, and management form a close-knit bond, based on mutual respect and devotion to our patients. If you want an enormously fulfilling career, there's no better place to be. The Comprehensive Breast Health Center, located at the 75 Francis Street campus, evaluates women with a variety of breast complaints. As part of the evaluation, patients complete a risk assessment survey. After properly addressing the patient's concerns, those that calculate to have an elevated risk for breast cancer are invited to follow up in the embedded high-risk program known as B-PREP (Breast Cancer Personalized Risk Assessment, Education and Prevention) Program where options for individualized surveillance and prevention measures are reviewed and implemented. Patients are also referred directly in to the B-PREP Program for risk assessment and management. The Breast Program is staffed by a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team of physician assistants, surgeons, and medical oncologists and are supported by an exceptional team consisting of a practice manager, practice assistants, medical assistants, a patient navigator, and research assistants. The team also works closely with colleagues in breast imaging to provide seamless care. The Breast Health RN has an integral role in meeting our mission of providing high-quality, efficient, compassionate care to the patients we serve. The Staff Nurse will be responsible for: *Maintaining familiarity with department activity and a close working relationship with clinicians and support staff to ensure that appropriate coordination of care and communication is maintained with clinicians, patients and referring providers. *Provide clinical telephone triage, especially for urgent clinical situations, alerting appropriate clinicians in a timely manner when indicated *Review and respond in a timely fashion to all in-basket messages and results for attending physicians, as well as for PA team as directed, eliciting PA/MD guidance as needed. Provide primary in-basket coverage for PA's when out of office *Preparing and submission of radiology review requests with facilitation of follow up recommendations. Assume primary responsibility for maintenance of the consult log *Review of pathology consult reports, checking for any discrepancies with outside hospital reports and alerting admin/clinical team when noted as may have implications for care plan *Complete chart prep and provide in-clinic support for surgeons during clinic sessions. Assume responsibility for following up on any imaging/procedure results and logging cancer developments in spreadsheet shared by clinical team *Providing pre-operative teaching *Providing post-operative wound assessment and care with support from PA as needed *Attending monthly Division staff meetings and other staff meetings as requested *Participating in departmental and organizational quality management and/or quality improvement projects as directed by the leadership team. *Proficient use of the electronic medical record, documenting in a manner that is clear, complete, concise, and in SBAR format when appropriate to remain compliant with nursing standards. *Working in a normal office setting; work entails extended periods of sitting and fast-paced, phone-based care. *Preparing, performing, and documenting the coordination of clinical care including, but not limited to, calling patients to assess tolerance of recently prescribe chemoprevention, assisting patients with medication questions, delivering lab results, and providing patient education as needed and requested. *Working collaboratively to provide excellent care to patients and families in the safest environment. * Other duties as assigned by the supervising physician or leadership team. To qualify you must have:
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Physical Requirements The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. | |