Advanced Practice Provider - Oncology Rapid Assessment Clinic - Full - Time , Rotating

• Work Location Type: On Site
• Shift: 4
• Position Type: FT Regular
• Min Salary: $130,900.00
• Max Salary: 167,200.00
• FTE: 1.0
• Working Hours: 40

Join UChicago Medicine, as an Advanced Practice Provider in our Oncology Rapid Assessment Clinic (ORAC). 

SIGN ON BONUS UP TO $10,000.00 

As an Advanced Practice Provider, you are responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management and will manage patients by exercising autonomous decision making in the assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The APP will provide healthcare and patient services that may include educational, research, and clinical support, as well as administrative activities under the direction and supervision of the Cancer Service Line leadership. The APP has acquired the knowledge, skills, and judgment necessary to deliver high quality care to hematology/oncology patients. 

The Oncology Rapid Assessment Clinic (ORAC) is an APP-staffed clinic area that cares for cancer patients who require urgent, same day/next day assessment and treatment. Hematology Oncology often require acute care for symptoms of malignancy as well as for the toxicities and side effects of cancer treatments. After an orientation period, the APP will work autonomously and collaboratively with the rest of the ORAC APP team. The APP will utilize evidence-based practice in close collaboration with University of Chicago heme/onc faculty, APPs, pharmacists and nurses. This candidate will be trained in the management of both hematologic and solid tumor malignancies, as well as oncologic emergencies (eg neutropenic fever, tumor lysis syndrome, cytokine release syndrome, neurotoxicity due to therapeutic agents, DIC, HLH, sepsis, and cord compression).

APP Job Summary:

The Nurse practitioner/physician assistant is an APP responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management. The APP manages a caseload of patients and exercises autonomous decision making in the assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The scope of practice also includes family support, teaching, staff education, consultation, and research.

 Essential Job Functions

• Differentiates normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
• Assesses patient and family adaptation, coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
• Accurately interprets diagnostic tests.
• Analyzes multiple sources of data in making clinical judgments and in determining the effectiveness of a plan of care.
• Develops problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
• Identifies educational needs of the patient and family and assists with teaching.
• Incorporates assessment findings into a plan to direct patient care.
• Formulates a plan of care in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, nursing staff and other member of the health care team which incorporates health care maintenance, discharge and follow-up care for patients on the cardiac surgery and vascular surgery inpatient services 
• Plans and implements appropriate pharmacological therapies.
• Accurately and appropriately performs routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures for nurse practitioners.
• Initiates referrals based on patient and family need.
• Accurately presents and documents the database, impression and plan of care.
• Promotes, has knowledge of and utilizes appropriate patient care protocol relating to the physical, psychosocial and developmental needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Maintains formal and informal systems for information sharing, planning and problem solving  with unit staff, other NP’s, medical staff and other nursing and hospital personnel.

Nurse Practitioner - Education and Experience Requirements:

• Advanced degree (or equivalent, if license received prior to July 1, 2001) from an accredited school/college of nursing required. 

• Ability to obtain Illinois advanced practice nurse (APN) license by start date required. 

• Current license as a Registered Nurse required.

• AANC certification as an ACNP and/or ANP-BC required.

• At least 1 year of inpatient nursing experience preferred 

• Previous oncology, urgent care or ED experience preferred

• Acute Care preferred

 Physician Assistant - Education and Experience Requirements:

• Education: Completion of an accredited (physician assistant) educational program required.
• Licensure: Certification in ACLS and by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and current and/or eligibility for:  State of Illinois licensure / registration required
• ICU Certification Required
• ICU experience highly preferred
• At least 1 year of experience in hematology/oncology, urgent care or ED

 Position Details

• Job Type: Full-Time (1.0FTE)
• Shift: Rotating 
• Unit/Department: ORAC
• CBA Code: Non-Union