Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant with at least one year oncology experience.
Work in a Private Hematology/Oncology Practice in conjunction with experienced oncologists to care for patients with hematologic/oncologic malignancies and benign hematologic issues. Work in collaboration with highly experienced oncologists. Scope of practice will include independently seeing patients with oncologic follow ups and hematologic consults. Complex consults to be seen in conjunction with oncologists. You will be expected to help manage chemotherapy side effects.
Responsibilities include:
- Ensure patient information, visit history, refer outs, lab follow-up, phone calls, and consults are carefully and completely documented in the electronic medical record.
- Conducts in-depth interviews with patients and/or family, constructs comprehensive medical histories, performs initial and periodic physical examinations, and explores patient's interpretation of health needs. Identifies and treats patients' diseases.
- Directly performs or orders appropriate diagnostic studies and interprets finished results.
- Develops and implements long and short range treatment plans.
- Instructs and counsels patients and families regarding preventive care, medical problems, psychological problems, and use of prescribed treatments and drugs.
- Writes orders to increase, decrease or change medication, subject to checking and counter-signing by physician.
- Identifies and records pertinent progress of patients, updating and summarizing charts, changing orders when appropriate and notifying the responsible physician of changes in the patient's condition.
Minimum qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Nursing
- Possession of current certificate of completion from a Nurse Practitioner program
- Current and valid California State RN and Nurse Practitioner licenses
- National Certification required upon employment
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
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Work Location: In person