Advanced Healthcare Practitioner; NP​/PA - Oncology

Position: Advanced Healthcare Practitioner (NP/PA) - Oncology - Full Time

Location: Mount Pleasant, TX

Job : 2144

# of Openings: 1

The Advanced Health Practitionerwho works under the supervision of a physician to provide direct patient care, patient and family education, psychological support, and survivorship planning from the time of diagnosis throughout the continuum of cancer care. The Advanced Health Practitionerscope of practice includes performing comprehensive assessments and physical examinations, ordering and interpreting diagnostic laboratory tests, performing invasive procedures, prescribing medications and treatments, ordering chemotherapy and biotherapy regimens, conducting health screenings, and providing patient and family education.

The Advanced Health Practitioner serves as an educator, consultant, and liaison to healthcare providers caring for the patients across the continuum of care, which can include inpatient and outpatient services. The Advanced Health Practitionerperforms administrative duties, including quality improvement activities, teaching, and hospital committee membership.

Advanced Health Practitionerprovides care and management of patients in collaboration with supervising physicians and through implementation of standardized procedures.

• Manages the clinical course of patients with cancer with acute or chronic complaints and end-of-life and other health concerns.
• Communicates and interacts effectively with patients, families, and staff, considering cultural differences.
• Formulates an evidence-based treatment plan according to the interpretation and evaluation of all patient data.
• Manages cancer survivors by performing a cancer-related review of systems to detect late and long-term effects of cancer treatment.
• Performs comprehensive history and physical examinations on patients with cancer to assess normal and abnormal findings and identifies differential diagnoses on established and new patients.
• Recognizes and initiates lifesaving procedures for oncologic emergencies and brings emergencies to the immediate attention of a physician.
• Initiates arrangements for hospital admissions.
• Performs core clinical practice competencies specific to the patient population.
• Collaborates with other healthcare team members involved in patient treatment to ensure continuity of care.
• Facilitates the coordination of advanced practice professional inpatient and outpatient care and services.
• Fosters an environment of respect for patient privacy.
• Obtains informed consent as indicated.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic tests, orders blood products, collects specimens for routine laboratory tests, and performs screening and therapeutic procedures.
• Orders consults for services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, I-imaging studies, and nursing services.
• Prescribes medications and administers orders as indicated by patients’ clinical status.
• Presents cases to the tumor board.
• Promotes, directs, evaluates, and manages safe patient care for patients being treated in the chemotherapy unit.
• Provides and coordinates patient teaching and counseling.
• Provides clinical support to treat patients for symptoms related to their disease and to assist the flow of patients who have oncologic or hematologic diagnoses.
• Provides patient consultation via telephone or telehealth.
• Participates in rounds with the interprofessional oncology team.
• Serves as a cancer pain management resource to the medical center in outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Uses and promotes approved standards of care, procedures, methods and techniques, safety precautions, and protocols in their application to the oncology patient population in all settings.
• Writes orders and consultations to radiation oncology, writes orders for vascular access device placement for chemotherapy, and arranges for procedures and biopsies with the surgery and interventional radiology departments.
• Writes orders for administration of blood products and chemotherapy agents under the direction and supervision of attending physicians.
• Promotes and participates in the delivery of patient and family education on the…