Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Oncology

About This Role

This role involves performing physical examinations, treating cancer treatment complications, and monitoring patient progress in an oncology setting. It requires collaboration with a healthcare team while maintaining responsibility for clinical patient management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure patient information, visit history, refer outs, lab follow-up, phone calls, and consults are carefully and completely documented in the electronic medical record
• Conduct in-depth interviews with patients and/or family, construct comprehensive medical histories, perform initial and periodic physical examinations and explore patient's interpretation of health needs
• Identify and treat patients' diseases
• Directly perform or order appropriate diagnostic studies and interpret finished results
• Develop and implement long and short-range treatment plans
• Perform procedures such as bone marrow biopsy
• Instruct and counsel patients and families regarding preventive care, medical problems, psychological problems, and use of prescribed treatments and drugs
• Write orders to increase, decrease or change medication, subject to checking and countersigning by physician
• Identify and record pertinent progress of patients, updating and summarizing charts, changing orders when appropriate and notifying the responsible physician of changes in the patient's condition
• Assist with hospital call duties by maintaining hospital privileges

Requirements

• Master's degree in nursing
• Current certificate of completion from a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
• Current and unrestricted license to practice
• National Certification required upon employment (Nurse Practitioners)

Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing
• Oncology experience preferred but not required

Nice to Have

• Oncology experience

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