Nurse (Clinical/Oncology)

Summary

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation About the Position: This position is located in the Hematology/Oncology/Chemotherapy Research Department at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Student Loan repayment may be authorized. Salary negotiation may be available for those candidates who are new to Federal service.

Duties

• Providing specialized professional nursing care to critically ill hematology and oncology patients according to patient's evolving condition.
• Executing physician orders and assisting health care providers with special procedures and treatments needed to carry out patient's care plan.
• Administer and monitor chemotherapy and other medications.
• Reviews appropriate laboratory values and diagnostic tests and acts accordingly to notify physicians to hold, modify or continue treatment.
• Make prompt, appropriate responses and adjusts/stops infusion and intervenes with emergency drug administration as necessary in response to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Provide independent/assessment based comprehensive nursing without specific instructions to address underlying co-morbidity affecting treatment such as cardiac/pulmonary conditions, renal dysfunction and diabetes, chemotherapy or treatment regimen.
• Educating patients and family members to understand their condition and maintain self-care and health maintenance.
• Responsible for setting up, operating and monitoring specialized medical equipment, both therapeutic and diagnostic; identifying malfunctioning equipment and taking appropriate action.

Education

See qualification section for education requirements.

Required Documents

• The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment.
• A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in the Applicant Checklist for Public Announcements.
• As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply.
• If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further. 1.
• Your resume: Your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
• Resumes exceeding two pages will be removed from consideration.
• For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer's name, job title, start and end dates (include month and year), for qualifications purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description that show
• You can perform the tasks at the required level listed in the job announcement.
• If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.
• Use plain language.
• Avoid using acronyms and terms that are not easily understood.
• The hiring agency will not make assumptions about what's in your resume.
• If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
• For additional information, to include formatting tips, see: What to include in your resume. 2.
• Other supporting documents: Cover Letter, optional Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable Transcript: This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience.
• If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible.
• See: Transcripts and Licenses.
• License/Certification: This position has a license/certification requirement.
• You MUST submit a copy of your current, active, valid, unrestricted license/certification with your application package or you will be rated ineligible.
• See: Transcripts and Licenses.
• Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office.
• Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you.
• You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application.
• You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.