Cancer Registrar job in Saint Louis, MO
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Saint Louis, MO CorTech LLC
| Job Ref: | 347965 |
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CorTech LLC |
| Job Type: | Contract |
| Salary and Benefits: | 44.82/Per Hour |
| Remote: | No |
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| City: | Saint Louis, MO |
| Post Code: | 63141 |
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CorTech is seeking to hire a Cancer Registrar for our client in Saint Louis, MO! Benefits Available! Weekly Pay! $44.82/Hour Start Time 12:00 AM End Time 12:00 AM Follows Confidentiality Policy/Procedure. Creates a Safe Environment: Patient I.D.; Unit/Departmental Specific Policies. Adheres to hospital wide and specific department safety regulations: Fire and Tornado; Environmental Safety. Complies with patients rights/regulations. Coordination of Services: Abstracting and Follow-up: Prepares St. John's Client Medical Center summary information regarding patient demographics, tumor characteristics (site, histology, extent of disease), treatment (surgical, radiological, chemotherapeutic), vital status, and social history. Demonstrates complete understanding of the SEER and TNM staging systems. Documents follow-up system annually (records any evidence of recurrent disease, further treatment given, and quality of survival, etc.) to assure patient follow-up with their physician. Quality Assurance/Research: Responds to requests for information, participates in the development of QI program to ensure accuracy and quality data, patient care evaluation studies, outcome data, and researching the feature site(s) for the annual report. Case finding: Ensures the inclusion of all patients diagnosed and/or treated for malignancies at St. John's Client Medical Center (inpatient and outpatient); provides synthesis of information from pathology reports, medical records, computer-generated reports, radiation therapy and cytology results. Project Management/Conferences: Assists in special tumor registry projects, cancer committee and oncology conference preparation and attendance. Establishes and maintains procedure through which the dual requirements of case finding and abstracting timelines (as defined by ACoS) are met (i.e. close out).Primary Aspects: Demonstrates proper time management skills and priority setting. Case finding: Utilizes current ACoS principles and cancer committee directives to establish reportable and non-reportable cases. Establishes procedures to ensure inclusion of all reportable cases. Source documents include, but are not limited to, pathology reports, radiation oncology records, medical records provided and/or requested from HIS and cytology reports. Abstracting: Determines from source documents: Patient demographic characteristics; Morphology and histology of primary cancer according to current edition of ICD-O; Diagnostic procedures; Stage/extent of disease using both SEER and current TNM guidelines. All relevant medical treatment modalities. Coordinates physician review of 10% of all cases accessioned by the Cancer Registry under the direction of the Cancer Committee. Documentation is factual, accurate, organized, complete, current and confidential. Coordinates peer review of charts to ensure quality abstracting. Inputs above data items into computer system according to specific guidelines in abstracting manual. Follow-up: Follow all living patients with reportable malignancies (except for carcinoma in-situ of cervix and non-analytic) to obtain vital status, cancer status, subsequent treatment received, and inputs results into computer system. Assists in maintaining at least the minimum follow-up rate (90%) as required by ACoS. Demonstrates flexibility regarding workload, assignments and change Attends Cancer Committee and tumor conferences. Provides staff assistance to the Cancer Committee: Special projects delegated by the committee. Maintains quality control of case finding, abstracting, follow-up and data entry with a minimum overall accuracy rate of 90% (random sample) Data Entry: All data input is double-checked daily by the abstractor. Communication Management Assists Cancer Registry supervisor and/or Executive Director in assembling and disseminating data collection in the Cancer Registry General Comments COVID-19: Client requires all travelers to be fully vaccinated for both COVID19 and the flu prior to start of assignment. There are no exceptions. | |
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