Nurse Practitioner; Oncology

We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner who will provide inpatient clinical and research support to the Hematologic Malignancies division. Works collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary health team and is responsible for providing comprehensive and age-appropriate care to both well and ill patients. Educates patients and families and intervenes in acute or chronic illness.

• Provides comprehensive, age appropriate, and 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.
• Consistently develops effective care/treatment plan for assigned patients according to established protocols and procedures.
• Provides information to staff regarding patient’s care plan and condition.
• Regularly confers and consults with appropriate supervisory physician and/or other pertinent professionals before implementing treatment plan.
• Structures all patient care plans to meet educational, physical and social needs appropriate to the patient’s age.
• Provides relevant patient care information to the appropriate staff member according to department guidelines.
• Follows daily progress of post-transplant patients in the immediate transplant phase, including history and physical exam, ordering, performing, and interpreting laboratory and radiological data and establishing and implementing a plan of care based on those interpretations and observations. Makes referrals to appropriate specialties.
• Follows long term progress of transplant patients including history and physical examination, orders and interprets re-staging tests, and assesses status.
• Observes for evidence of long-term effects of transplantation including infection, toxicity, engraftment, graft-versus-host disease.
• Provides education to patient and family members regarding diagnosis, complications, treatment and medications in order to provide them with continuous information.

• Performs, but is not limited to the following advance procedures: routine laboratory procedures such as cultures, smears, venipuncture, electrocardiograms.
• Performs advanced procedures such as bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, skin biopsy, lumbar puncture, and other procedures as necessary, including paracentesis and thoracentesis.

• Maintains CPR certification.
• Maintains airway, breathing, circulation.
• Starts and provides basic CPR.
• Orders and 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, 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.
• Works in collaboration with the 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 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 the scope of practice.

• Assumes fiscal responsibility with working knowledge of evidence based medical model.
• Effectively uses resources of the patient and the institution.
• Is aware of and…