Nurse Practitioner; Oncology

Specific Duties & Responsibilities Patient Care

Provides comprehensive, age‑appropriate, episodic care to patients as a member of the multi‑disciplinary health care team.

• Obtains patient history
• Performs patient care and physical examinations
• Prepares patient summaries
• Develops care/treatment plan
• Attends out‑patient clinics and assists with patient management
• Communicates patient care plans and condition to staff
• Consults with supervisory physician and other professionals before implementing treatment plan
• Ensures care plans meet educational, physical, and social needs appropriate to the patient’s age
• Provides relevant care information to staff according to department guidelines
• Follows daily progress of post‑transplant patients in the immediate transplant phase
• Orders, performs, and interprets laboratory and radiological data and establishes plan of care based on observations
• Facilitates referrals to appropriate specialties
• Follows long‑term progress of transplant patients, including history and physical examination, restaging tests, and status assessment
• Monitors for evidence of long‑term effects of transplantation, including infection, toxicity, engraftment, Graft‑Versus‑Host Disease
• Provides education to patients and family members regarding diagnosis, complications, treatment and medications

Performs, but is not limited to, the following advanced procedures:

• Routine laboratory procedures such as cultures, smears, venipuncture, electrocardiograms
• Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
• Skin biopsy
• Lumbar puncture
• Paracentesis and thoracentesis
• Other procedures as necessary

Maintains CPR certification, airway, breathing, circulation, basic CPR, and orders/ administers anti‑anaphylactic and supportive medications.

• Prescribes medications, including oral, parenteral, intramuscular, or subcutaneous drugs
• Prescribes Schedule 2, 2N, 3, 3N, 4, 5 drugs under the guidelines of the Maryland Nurse Practice Act and the DEA

Works with specific protocols to ensure that all protocol‑driven tests, examinations, and procedures are ordered, performed and evaluated, and data is retrieved and entered on appropriate forms.

Coordinates scheduling, orders appropriate tests, evaluates results, records data, performs patient evaluations and participates in care of patients on specific protocols regarding specific disease entities and treatment.

Collaborates with Principal Investigators of specific protocols to ensure the completeness of protocol requirements.

• Develops expertise and expands knowledge in specific areas and shares that knowledge and expertise with colleagues as a consultant in planning care for patients
• Participates in rounds and meetings for consultation
• Supervises and evaluates student/patient interactions in an academic setting
• Assumes responsibility for patient care as provided by the student
• Performs oncology related procedures, such as bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, lumbar puncture, bone marrow harvest, and other procedures as called upon within scope of practice

Assumes fiscal responsibility with working knowledge of evidence‑based medical model, uses resources effectively, adheres to specific capitations and penalty limitations, and optimizes individualized care based on disease state and restraints imposed by HMO or insurances.

Utilizes referrals to Home Health and other available resources when patient resources are limited or unavailable to provide medical care and social well‑being.

Works in collaboration with physicians and recognizes deviations from normalcy or established protocols that require consultation and/or referral to appropriate specialty areas, including physicians, nutrition, psycho‑social, and other resources.

• Master’s Degree in Nursing
• Registered Nurse license and Certified as a Nurse Practitioner
• Licensed as NP in state of Maryland

Classified

Title:

Nurse Practitioner Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG

Starting Salary Range: $100,000 - $152,900 Annually (Targeted $120,100, commensurate with experience)

Employee group:
Full Time

Schedule:

Mon - Fri / 8:30 am - 5 pm

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Location:

School of Medicine Campus

Department name: SOM Onc Hematologic Malignancies

Personnel area:
School of Medicine