Advanced Practice Nurse - Oncology

Duties

• Providing clinical care for veterans with diagnoses of genitourinary malignancy both in person at the Seattle campus as well as providing telehealth at other VA Puget Sound Health Care System campuses (American Lake - Silverdale - Everett)
• Determining whether the requests and the clinical history of the veteran make genetic and genomic testing appropriate
• Interacting with veterans who have been identified as appropriate and interested in genetic testing to provide additional information prior to testing
• Ordering germline and somatic NGS testing for veterans deemed appropriate - including veterans within VISN20 who are not in the immediate VA Puget Sound catchment
• Communicating with veterans regarding follow-up for sample acquisition
• Cooking provision of testing results to patients and their providers
• Making veterans and families aware of resources available for genetic counseling and cascade testing both within and outside of VA
• Facilitating upload of clinical reports into the electronic medical record where the tested veteran receives care
• Timely documentation in the patient records - maintenance of records - logs and preparation of reports - documents - statistical surveys and other data as required in various patient settings in the VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Work Schedule

Monday through Friday - 8:00AM to 4:30PM

Compressed/Flexible

May be available

Telework

Not available

Virtual

This is not a virtual position

Pay

Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off

50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)