Nurse Practitioner (Oncology)

We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner who will provide comprehensive, evidence-based care to adult patients with primary and metastatic breast / gyn malignancies in the outpatient women’s malignancy clinic. Working collaboratively with breast oncologists and a multidisciplinary team (surgeons and radiation oncologists), the APP is responsible for evaluating patients across the continuum of care, developing and implementing treatment plans, managing complex treatment-related toxicities, ordering and interpreting diagnostic studies, prescribing medications, and coordinating supportive care services. The APP serves as a primary clinical resource for patients and families, ensuring continuity of care through active management of symptoms, survivorship needs, and disease progression while participating in clinical research, quality improvement initiatives, and patient education. This role requires advanced clinical decision-making, excellent communication skills, and expertise in the management of oncologic complications associated with breast and gyn tumors and their treatments.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Patient Care

- Provides comprehensive, age appropriate and episodic care to patients as a member of the multi-disciplinary health care team.
- Coordinates scheduling of and conducts comprehensive and/or episodic health assessments of patients/families with real, potential, acute and/or chronic health problems.
- Performs history and physical examination as it relates to chief complaints
- Records and documents assessment data necessary to maintain, coordinate, and/or expedite required services.
- Orders appropriate laboratory studies, radiographic studies, and other tests specific to the diagnosis or protocol.
- Makes referrals to appropriate specialties.
- Follows long term progress of patients including history and physical examination, orders and interprets re-staging tests, and assesses status.
- Provides outside referring physicians with reports on patients’ status by ordering, interpreting, collecting, and communicating results and recommendations to the physician. Consults with referring physicians regarding questions specific to the treatment course and/or its complications, suggesting treatment plans and making appropriate referrals for further follow up.
- Observes for evidence of long term effects of treatment.
- Provides education to patient and family members regarding diagnosis, complications, treatment and medications in order to provide them with continuous information.
- Performs a comprehensive history and physical for patients in multidisciplinary clinic and collaborates with the team to establish and implement a treatment plan.

Procedures

- Routine laboratory procedures such as cultures, smears, venipuncture’s, electrocardiograms.
- Expands role by learning to perform advanced procedures such as skin biopsy, paracentesis, access Omaya and administer chemotherapy as well as other procedures deemed necessary that are within the scope of practice.

Research Coordination

- Will work with specific protocols to ensure that all protocol driven tests, examinations, and procedures are ordered, performed and evaluated and data is retrieved, entered on appropriate forms.
- Coordinates scheduling, orders appropriate tests, evaluates results, records data, performs patient evaluations and participates in care of patients on specific protocols regarding specific disease entities and treatment.
- Works in collaboration with the Principal Investigators and research team members of specific protocols to ensure the completeness of protocol requirements.

Educational Responsibilities

- Provides preceptorship to RN, Masters preparing NP, and PA students through collaboration with and direction from their respective University professors.
- Supervises and evaluates student/patient interactions in an academic setting.
- Assumes responsibility for patient care as provided by the student. Is granted affiliate/adjunct faculty status with the various universities with whom he/she works.
- Develops expertise and expands knowledge in specific areas and shares that knowledge and expertise with colleagues as consultant in planning care for patients.

Minimum Qualifications

- Master's Degree in Nursing; Registered Nurse license and Certified as a Nurse Practitioner.

- Must be licensed as NP in State of Maryland or other state where practicing.

- Current CPR certification required. Must maintain current licensure and certification during duration of employment

- Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula

Classified Title: Nurse Practitioner   
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG  
Starting Salary Range:  $112,572 - $152,900 Annually ($123,100 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Mon - Fri / 8:30a - 5p 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: School of Medicine Campus  
Department name: SOM Onc Breast & Gyn Malignancies Group   
Personnel area: School of Medicine