Advanced Practice Provider - Radiation Oncology

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We are committed to providing excellent patient care and work in a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment. The team meets the highest standards in treatment planning, treatment delivery, and management for each and every patient.

• Radiation Oncologists
• Advanced Practice Providers
• Registered Nurses and Medical Assistant
• Medical Physicists and Dosimetrists
• Radiation Therapists
• Medical Physics Technicians
• Patient Service Representatives

The Radiation Oncology Department offers an extensive range of advanced technological and collaborative approaches to ensure unsurpassed clinical care. Safe and accurate radiation therapy is provided with state-of-the-art equipment, including:

• Tomo Therapy Hi-ART, an advanced linear accelerator with CT imaging for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), capable of high precision treatments
• Elekta Infinity with Agility MLC, the only system in the State that offers 4D-imaging at the treatment machine; capable of imaging tumors that move during respiration immediately prior to treatment for precise alignment
• Varian 21EX with Millennium MLC
• Elekta Nucletron Microselectron for high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy;
• C-RAD Catalyst and Sentinel system for real-time motion monitoring during treatment
• Philips Big Bore CT Simulator, capable of providing 4D-imaging for accurate tumor localization
• Advanced array of treatment planning systems, including Philips Pinnacle and Ray Station for IMRT, VMAT, and 3D treatment planning

An Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a medical provider who treats, diagnoses, prescribes, and/or performs or assists in surgical procedures. APPs are licensed healthcare professionals, credentialed and privileged through the Medical Staff Office. APPs work collaboratively with physicians and the care team in all areas of the hospital and clinics to create a seamless environment of care. APPs are highly knowledgeable and serve as an essential part of the development and implementation of patients’ care.

The APP develops protocols for care, as appropriate, serves as a health care researcher, interdisciplinary consultant, and patient advocate.

The APRN functions as an expert practitioner with educator consultant, researcher and leadership role components and functions autonomously and in collaboration with other healthcare professionals to enhance the quality of nursing practice and patient care.

• Provides health care that includes services to individuals and families, emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, and diagnosis and management of acute and chronic diseases. Direct care services may include, but are not limited to, obtaining a patient history, providing a complete or focused physical examination, ordering, conducting and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, performing procedures, patient and family education, and managing social, economic and ethical issues within the scope of a health care provider.
  
  Indirect patient care services may include, but are limited to setting standards for nursing practice and facilitating the professional practice of nursing care at the bedside.

A PA is an individual who has been certified by the board to practice medicine with physician supervision. A PA may perform those duties and responsibilities delegated by the supervising physician.

• Under the supervision of a Physician, the PA functions as an expert practitioner. The PA provides health care that includes services to individuals and families, which includes health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and chronic disease. Direct care services may include, but is not limited to, obtaining patient histories, providing a complete or focused physical examination, ordering, conducting, and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, various diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures;
  
  and performing procedures, etc., within scope of practice and licensure. The…