Oncology Registered Nurse Jobs in Virginia
Oncology Registered Nurse jobs in Virginia are consistently active, with demand concentrated in hospital-based cancer centers, academic medical systems, and outpatient infusion practices serving a growing patient population at every level from new graduate to senior clinical lead. Richmond, Northern Virginia, and Hampton Roads are the primary hiring metros, anchored by institutions like Inova Health System, VCU Health, and Sentara Healthcare. Infusion therapy, hematology-oncology, and bone marrow transplant nursing are among the most sought-after specialties across the state. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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The Clinical Registered Nurse (RN) II is responsible for managing individualized patient care by promoting and restoring patients' health in accordance with medical and nursing plans of care and established policies and procedures. The Clinical RN II collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members in the development, execution, and evaluation of the multidisciplinary plan of care. The RN assumes a full patient assignment and can plan, analyze, intervene and set goals for patient care accordingly. This nurse provides nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the Virginia Board of Nursing. This RN maintains a safe care environment for their patients (clients) and delivers quality care.
Required Education: Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing
Required Certification and Licensures: Registration as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or holds a compact license to practice in Virginia. AHA BLS Provider.
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Cath Lab/Electrophysiology
Operating Room
Critical Care (All)
Endoscopy
PACU
Interventional Radiology
Birth Center
Centra Specialty Hospital
Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
Plastic Surgery Registered Nurse
Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
Additional Specialty Requirements – Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Pediatrics
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced and Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Emergency Dept.
Required Experience / Skills: One Year of Nursing (RN) Experience.
Salary Range: $32.92 - $51.02 / Hour
- Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs within timeframe specified by policies, procedures, or protocols.
Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by patient’s condition and/or the policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly.
Integrates nursing interventions into the multidisciplinary plan of care, incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and patient outcomes.
- Develops, modifies, and integrates an individualized care plan which incorporates the medical plan of care, key elements from the plans of other disciplines, and standards of care and practice.
- Establishes individualized, measurable patient goals in consultation with the patient, family, and health care team.
- Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by provider in an accurate and timely manner.
- Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family.
- Recognizes potential problems and responds to general information/data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to the patient.
- Initiates emergency resuscitative measures as appropriate.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the care of a specialty patient population.
- Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is culturally sensitive to the patient and family, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to ensure patient care interventions are appropriate.
- Evaluates patient’s responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established goals.
- Initiates changes in the interdisciplinary care plan based on this evaluation. Problem solves with the specialty team to improve patient outcomes.
- Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
- Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information based on needs.
- Ensures that the patient/family demonstrates knowledge, within the abilities of the patient.
- Communicates with patients and family to identify their needs and include them in the plan of care.
- Acknowledges and supports determinations by the patient and/or family concerning treatment.
- Assumes responsibility for assessing and meeting own learning and professional development needs.
- Maintains current competency in nursing specialty and requirements for department; attends required educational programs and may attend additional educational workshops; reviews nursing professional publications; establishes personal networks; may participate in professional societies.
- Seeks additional educational opportunities for clinical development and is either ready to learn the charge nurse role or currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
- Makes sound judgments in the decisions involved in coordinating multiple, increasingly complex patient care demands.
- Supervises delegated care based on abilities of personnel and patient acuity.
- Reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel.
- Participates in service recovery and uses appropriate resources during complex situations.
- Handles conflict resolution in an appropriate, timely and consistent manner.
- Supports organizational efforts regarding appropriate resource utilization (i.e. flexing during low census).
- Able to serve as a preceptor/mentor and works directly with employees to fulfill planned orientation to the department. May assist in the orientation, instruction, direction, and evaluation of students assigned to the unit.
- Able to be trained for a charge nurse role or is currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
- Participates in data collection for quality assurance activities if assigned by department leader.
- Identifies and communicates recurring practice concerns in specialty areas and their impact on care.
- Participates in initiatives resulting from nurse-sensitive, quality, and other specialty indicators and/or unit-based quality metrics.
- Demonstrates the utilization of Centra’s safety behaviors (i.e. Speak Up for Safety).
- May participate in Research or Evidence Based Practice projects.
- Able to communicate research and quality improvement data/findings to peers.
- Able to interpret quality improvement data relevant to the clinical specialty and communicate this data to peers.
- Contributes to development or implementation of methods to improve quality care in areas identified as deficient by quality improvement data studies.
- Maintains confidentiality in matters as outlined in Centra policies.
- Delivers care in a manner that protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Serves as a patient advocate.
- Maintains patient-nurse relationships with professional role boundaries.
The Clinical Registered Nurse (RN) II is responsible for managing individualized patient care by promoting and restoring patients' health in accordance with medical and nursing plans of care and established policies and procedures. The Clinical RN II collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members in the development, execution, and evaluation of the multidisciplinary plan of care. The RN assumes a full patient assignment and can plan, analyze, intervene and set goals for patient care accordingly. This nurse provides nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the Virginia Board of Nursing. This RN maintains a safe care environment for their patients (clients) and delivers quality care.
Required Education: Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing
Required Certification and Licensures: Registration as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or holds a compact license to practice in Virginia. AHA BLS Provider.
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Cath Lab/Electrophysiology
Operating Room
Critical Care (All)
Endoscopy
PACU
Interventional Radiology
Birth Center
Centra Specialty Hospital
Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
Plastic Surgery Registered Nurse
Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
Additional Specialty Requirements – Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Pediatrics
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced and Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Emergency Dept.
Required Experience / Skills: One Year of Nursing (RN) Experience.
Salary Range: $32.92 - $51.02 / Hour
- Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs within timeframe specified by policies, procedures, or protocols.
Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by patient’s condition and/or the policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly.
Integrates nursing interventions into the multidisciplinary plan of care, incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and patient outcomes.
- Develops, modifies, and integrates an individualized care plan which incorporates the medical plan of care, key elements from the plans of other disciplines, and standards of care and practice.
- Establishes individualized, measurable patient goals in consultation with the patient, family, and health care team.
- Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by provider in an accurate and timely manner.
- Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family.
- Recognizes potential problems and responds to general information/data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to the patient.
- Initiates emergency resuscitative measures as appropriate.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the care of a specialty patient population.
- Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is culturally sensitive to the patient and family, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to ensure patient care interventions are appropriate.
- Evaluates patient’s responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established goals.
- Initiates changes in the interdisciplinary care plan based on this evaluation. Problem solves with the specialty team to improve patient outcomes.
- Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
- Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information based on needs.
- Ensures that the patient/family demonstrates knowledge, within the abilities of the patient.
- Communicates with patients and family to identify their needs and include them in the plan of care.
- Acknowledges and supports determinations by the patient and/or family concerning treatment.
- Assumes responsibility for assessing and meeting own learning and professional development needs.
- Maintains current competency in nursing specialty and requirements for department; attends required educational programs and may attend additional educational workshops; reviews nursing professional publications; establishes personal networks; may participate in professional societies.
- Seeks additional educational opportunities for clinical development and is either ready to learn the charge nurse role or currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
- Makes sound judgments in the decisions involved in coordinating multiple, increasingly complex patient care demands.
- Supervises delegated care based on abilities of personnel and patient acuity.
- Reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel.
- Participates in service recovery and uses appropriate resources during complex situations.
- Handles conflict resolution in an appropriate, timely and consistent manner.
- Supports organizational efforts regarding appropriate resource utilization (i.e. flexing during low census).
- Able to serve as a preceptor/mentor and works directly with employees to fulfill planned orientation to the department. May assist in the orientation, instruction, direction, and evaluation of students assigned to the unit.
- Able to be trained for a charge nurse role or is currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
- Participates in data collection for quality assurance activities if assigned by department leader.
- Identifies and communicates recurring practice concerns in specialty areas and their impact on care.
- Participates in initiatives resulting from nurse-sensitive, quality, and other specialty indicators and/or unit-based quality metrics.
- Demonstrates the utilization of Centra’s safety behaviors (i.e. Speak Up for Safety).
- May participate in Research or Evidence Based Practice projects.
- Able to communicate research and quality improvement data/findings to peers.
- Able to interpret quality improvement data relevant to the clinical specialty and communicate this data to peers.
- Contributes to development or implementation of methods to improve quality care in areas identified as deficient by quality improvement data studies.
- Maintains confidentiality in matters as outlined in Centra policies.
- Delivers care in a manner that protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Serves as a patient advocate.
- Maintains patient-nurse relationships with professional role boundaries.
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Oncology Registered Nurse Job Market in Virginia
A snapshot from current Virginia openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Sentara10
- Inova Health System10
- University of Virginia6
- VHC Health5
- Mary Washington Healthcare5
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Government & Public Sector
What Virginia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in oncology registered nurse jobs across Virginia.
- Active Virginia Registered Nurse license or multistate compact license recognized in Virginia
- Current BLS certification required, with ACLS often preferred for acute care settings
- Oncology Nursing Society certification (OCN) strongly preferred or required for senior roles
- Minimum one to two years of oncology or medical-surgical nursing experience for most positions
- Proficiency with electronic health record systems such as Epic or Cerner
- Strong knowledge of chemotherapy administration protocols and safe handling procedures
Oncology Registered Nurse Jobs in Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a oncology registered nurse in Virginia?
You must hold an active Registered Nurse license issued or recognized by the Virginia Board of Nursing, which requires passing the NCLEX-RN after completing an accredited associate or bachelor's degree in nursing. Most Virginia oncology employers prefer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. After gaining bedside experience, typically in medical-surgical or hematology units, nurses pursue the Oncology Certified Nurse credential through the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation to advance into dedicated oncology roles.
How much do oncology registered nurses make in Virginia?
Oncology registered nurses in Virginia earn a median of about $93,600 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $67,830 for the lowest 10% to over $125,580 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire oncology registered nurses in Virginia?
Employers hiring oncology registered nurses in Virginia right now include Sentara, Inova Health System, and University of Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Virginia's large integrated health systems and NCI-designated cancer programs drive consistent demand across inpatient, outpatient infusion, and research-based nursing settings throughout the state.
Which Virginia cities have the most oncology registered nurse jobs?
The Virginia cities with the most oncology registered nurse openings are Charlottesville, Norfolk, and Richmond. Richmond leads because of its dense concentration of academic medical centers and VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, while Northern Virginia benefits from Inova's regional cancer program and proximity to Washington D.C. hospital networks, and Hampton Roads is driven by Sentara's multi-campus health system serving a large coastal population.
Are there remote oncology registered nurse jobs in Virginia?
Yes, but they're rare. Oncology nursing is fundamentally a hands-on clinical role, so most positions require on-site presence for direct patient care, chemotherapy administration, and monitoring. About 0% of oncology registered nurse openings tied to Virginia are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, and those tend to be in telephone triage, care coordination, or case management functions rather than bedside or infusion work.
How can I get hired as a oncology registered nurse in Virginia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is completing a nurse residency program at a major Virginia health system. VCU Health, Inova, and Sentara all run structured new-graduate residencies that include oncology rotations and bridge candidates from general med-surg into specialty units. Starting in a hematology, medical-surgical, or step-down unit builds the clinical foundation oncology managers look for, and earning BLS certification plus enrolling in Oncology Nursing Society coursework before applying gives candidates a visible edge over peers without specialty preparation.
Where can I find and apply to oncology registered nurse jobs in Virginia?
You can find and apply to oncology registered nurse jobs in Virginia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Virginia openings across hospital systems, outpatient infusion centers, and cancer care practices. Find the roles that fit your experience and credentials below and apply directly.
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