Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner

City of Hope is a comprehensive cancer center that provides integrated care, research, and training.

Schedule:

4 10s. Will hire either a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.

• Utilizes critical judgment in the performance of comprehensive health assessment, differential medical diagnosis including ordering, conducting, interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, and prescribing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments in the direct management of acute and chronic illness and disease.
• Conducts comprehensive physical examination.
• Initiates and interprets diagnostic tests and procedures relevant to the patient’s current status.
• Critically analyzes assessment data to determine diagnoses.
• Prioritizes diagnoses using appropriate complex clinical reasoning.
• Develops and implements a comprehensive plan of care that includes interventions and treatments to attain expected outcomes.
• Addresses strategies for improving health status that reflect current health care, knowledge, research and practice.
• Involves patient, family, and other members of the health care team, including use of community resources in the plan of treatment.
• Makes independent decisions in solving complex patient care problems.
• Collaborates with health team members to establish priorities, manage care and coordinate efforts to achieve desired outcomes in providing planned treatment and services to the client.
• Utilizes appropriate or specialized knowledge and skills in the provision of direct patient care.
• Prescribes, orders, or implements interventions and treatments for the treatment/care plan.
• Prescribes or dispenses drugs and devices based on a knowledge of pharmacological and physiological principles in accordance with state and federal laws and regulation, and as authorized under the appropriate Board of Nursing.
• Utilizes an extensive awareness of community assets and available resources when assisting with making appropriate referrals and outreach.

• Minimum 2 years experience or commensurate training/experience.
• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant Training Program OR Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), Nurse Practitioner (NP).
• Licensed/certified and eligible to practice as Physician Assistant in the State of Arizona OR Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN).
• American Heart Basic Life Support (BLS) and ACLS certification.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.