Advance Practice Provider (APRN or Physician Assistant) Sarcoma Medical Oncology

About the role

The Advanced Practice Provider or Physician Assistant (APP or PA) role supports Sarcoma Medical Oncology through comprehensive inpatient and outpatient clinical care, patient management, care coordination, research collaboration, and administrative activities. As an APP or PA at UT MD Anderson, you deliver high-quality patient care across multiple settings while partnering with physicians, researchers, and interdisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Patient Care: Inpatient Activities
  • Conduct inpatient rounds with attending physicians and communicate pertinent clinical information based on physical examination and review of patient data.
  • Manage daily patient problems and emergency situations and document actions implemented and their resolution.
  • Complete admission histories and physicals, consultation notes, daily progress notes, and discharge summaries in compliance with institutional and departmental guidelines.
  • Request consultations and communicate with other services, caregivers, and outside providers to coordinate patient care.
  • Career planning activities.
  • Perform advanced patient care therapeutic procedures, including removal of arterial catheters.
• Patient Care: Outpatient Activities
  • Evaluate patients and communicate pertinent clinical information based on patient history, physical examination, and review of clinical data.
  • Dictate PMEs, histories and physicals, consultation notes, clinic notes, and telephone notes into the medical record according to guidelines.
  • Facilitate appointments and diagnostic testing for new and consultation patients.
  • Coordinate urgent hospital admissions and emergency room referrals.
  • Aid in managing unscheduled clinic patients.
  • Facilitate scheduling of specialized procedures and tests, including CVC insertions, echocardiograms, image-guided biopsies and aspirations, fine needle aspirations, arterial infusions, and embolizations.
  • Maintain and follow up on laboratory results, diagnostic imaging studies, pathology reports, and other testing outcomes.
  • Request consultations and coordinate care with internal services and external providers.
  • Order medications, treatments, and tests within delegated prescriptive authority and institutional policies.
• Research & Clinical Collaboration
  • Collaborate with research teams on clinical protocol design, order set development, review activities, and protocol-related event management.
  • Assess patients for protocol eligibility and identify potential study candidates.
  • Evaluate symptoms, side effects, and toxicities related to standard therapies and investigational studies.
  • Participate in clinical research through database completion, medical record review, and patient or family interviews.
  • Collaborate with medical staff, research nurses, and other healthcare professionals to support research initiatives.
  • Deliver medical presentations within the institution and at local, state, and national levels as applicable.
• Administrative Responsibilities
  • Complete patient-related paperwork, including letters, FMLA documentation, disability forms, and insurance forms through written, typed, or dictated correspondence.
  • Conduct peer-to-peer reviews and provide clinical information to support insurance authorization processes.
  • Complete electronic billing charges within 24 hours of providing patient care services.
  • Perform additional duties as requested by supervising physicians and permitted by state and federal regulations.

Requirements

• Education: Required: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Master's Degree in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice. May be waived for applicants who obtained recognition as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse from the Texas State Board of Nursing prior to 1/1/2003. Graduate education and related Texas Board of Nursing authorization must be consistent with clinical practice area and patient population.
• Experience: Preferred: At least 1 year of Oncology experience as an Advanced Practice Provider.
• Licenses and Certifications: Required: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse All of the following: Written authorization from the Texas Board of Nursing to function as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN or ACNP or ACNPC or ACAGNP or AGACNP or ACNPC-AG or AGACNP or AGNP or ACPNP or ANP or AGNP or AGPCNP or FNP or GNP or PNP or PMHNP or WHNP or APNP). Related authorization must be consistent with clinical practice area and patient population. Basic Life Support (BLS). Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) If working in the following departments: Pediatric - Patient Care (113100).
• Physician Assistant Education: Required: Master's degree from an accredited Physician Assistant (PA) program by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), except for Physician Assistants who graduated from a PA program prior to 2013. Physician Assistant LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS: Required: PAC - Physician Assistant Certification by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants. Upon Hire and Required: PA - Physician Assistant Licensed by the Texas State Board of Physician Assistant Examiners Upon Hire and Required: BLS - Basic Life Support American Heart Association (AHA). Upon Hire and Required: ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support American Heart Association (AHA). Upon Hire or Required: PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support American Heart Association (AHA). If working in one of following department: Pediatrics - Patient Care (113100). Upon Hire Required: MAY BE REQUIRED: Authorization for limited prescriptive authority by the Texas Board of Nursing. Upon Hire and Required: Clinical Privileges Must obtain and maintain relevant clinical privileges. Continued employment in this position at MD Anderson is contingent upon maintaining these privileges.