Advanced Practice Provider (APRN or PA) - Surgical Oncology

About the Department

The Surgical Oncology Department at MD Anderson's Cancer Center offers seven specialties: Acute Care Surgical Oncology & General Surgery, Endocrine surgery, Gastric-peritoneal surface surgery, Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery, Melanoma surgery, Pediatric surgery, and Sarcoma surgery. Providers in these specialty disciplines assess, plan treatment, and provide surgical services to patients with goals that include improving survival, shortening recovery, maximizing quality of life, and minimizing treatment-related side effects.

Key Responsibilities

• Patient Care: Collaborate with physician and clinical team to manage patients in one or multiple areas of the department (GI, Melanoma, Sarcoma, Endocrine, Port Clinic, Breast Cancer). Demonstrate population-based competencies across the continuum of care. Perform history and physical assessment and collaborate with physician to prescribe tests and interpret results as well as provide appropriate treatment. Optimize practice autonomy within professional scope while collaborating with the multidisciplinary team in assigned areas.
• Outpatient Clinic APP: Manage new patients, follow-up patients, post-op patients, survivorship and surveillance patients in collaboration with physician and clinic team.
• Operating Room: Assist in surgery as allowed by certification and scope. Perform pre-operative assessments and evaluate immediate post-operative status as well as interpret tests and prescribe appropriate treatment.
• Inpatient Care: Manage patients during hospitalization and post-surgery in collaboration with clinical team. Participate in evaluation and management of patients referred for surgical consults.
• Medical Knowledge: Demonstrate medical knowledge of care of Surgical Oncology patients. Develop and demonstrate proficiency in the skills necessary for care of patients in practice area. Engage in ongoing learning opportunities and share knowledge and expertise with other staff and trainees. Engage in and promote the institution's discovery/research efforts to improve patient outcomes.
• Professionalism: Demonstrate commitment to collaborative professional relationships with physicians and all members of the health care team. Abide by professional regulatory and institutional guidelines for practice for providing care, documentation, professional charges, professional practice and behaviors. Demonstrate commitment to professional development.
• Practice-Based Learning: Participate in on-going learning and professional development. Demonstrate application of new knowledge and skills to enhance practice and patient outcomes in area. Participate in on-going development of personal and team leadership competencies.
• System-Based Practice: Demonstrate impact on the system of care. Analyze own practice and assess as well as implement ways to improve practice through participation in quality improvement initiatives. Apply personal and team leadership skills to enhance practice and patient outcomes.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education

• Required: Master's Degree Nursing or Doctorate Nursing Practice. Degree 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.

Work Experience

• Required: None
• Preferred: OR experience

Licensure/Certification

• Required: Written authorization from the Texas Board of Nursing (BON) or Texas State Board of Physician Assistant Examiners (TSBPAE) to function as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse or Physician Assistant. Related authorization must be consistent with clinical practice area and patient population. Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.
• May be required: Eligible to be granted limited prescriptive authority by the State of Texas.
• Preferred: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS), ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) or PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) certification as required by patient care area.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Paid time off
• Retirement
• Tuition benefits
• Educational opportunities
• Individual and team recognition

Pay

Salary range: Minimum $117,500.00 - Midpoint $146,500.00 - Maximum $176,500.00

Schedule

Full-Time, Days