APP | ONCOLOGY FLOAT | Smilow Cancer Center

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, triage, and therapeutic management of patient/family needs throughout the disease process as an integral part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Work in collaboration with the attending supervising/collaborating physician(s) in accordance with state law and hospital regulations, hospital policy, protocols, and clinical pathways, and may provide autonomous team-based care.
• Obtains medical histories, performs physical examinations, reviews/orders diagnostic/therapeutic tests and radiologic results, chemotherapy prescribing, formulates and manages patient treatment plans.
• The APP will educate patients and families on care and available resources, in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• This includes admitting instructions, treatment plans, potential side effects, and discharge plans.
• The APP, as part of a interdisciplinary team, provides psychosocial support to patients, their family members, and significant others in a caring, ethical, and professional manner.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited Nurse Practitioner or an accredited Physician Assistant Program.
• Experience in hematology/oncology APP preferred.
• Chemotherapy prescribing desirable.
• Active, unrestricted CT medical license or in process of obtaining ACLS/BLS (as required).
• Certification DEA License.
• Open and adaptable to various clinical settings.