Advanced Practice Provider - Inpatient Hematology/Oncology - Full - Time, Nights

Join the University of Chicago Medicine as an Advanced Practice Provider for Inpatient Hematology/Oncology Night Advanced Practice Provider Team.

Sign on Bonus Up to $10,000.00 and Relocation Package Available 

As an Advanced Practice Provider, you are responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management in the hospital setting, you will play a critical role in delivering comprehensive, evidence-based care to critically ill patients in a fast-paced academic medical center environment.

The night shift Advanced Practice Provider covers three inpatient services: Inpatient Leukemia, Inpatient Cellular Therapy, and Inpatient Chemotherapy. These services are all APP-staffed services which each have the support of a Hematology/Oncology Fellow and Hematology/Oncology Attending. After an orientation period on both days and nights, the APP will work independently and autonomously on the Inpatient Hematology/Oncology Night APP Team. At night, the APP will be responsible for managing established inpatients and admitting patients appropriate for the services. The APP will be trained to manage oncologic emergencies such as neutropenic fever, tumor lysis syndrome, and cytokine release syndrome. The APP will always have the fellow and attending as resources, although they will not be in house at night. Optimal staffing at night is 2-3 APPs covering all three services per night. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area.

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.

APP: Provide comprehensive care to patients in the inpatient settings cared for by the APPs of the cardiac and vascular surgery ICU and stepdown units. Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, using advanced clinical skills to manage a caseload of patients. Assess, diagnose, initiate delegated medical treatments, perform independent nursing interventions, and evaluate care. Provide a model of care that is shaped by theory, expanded by science, research and reflective practice and is identified by a holistic and comprehensive approach to the patients.

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.
• ACLS certification 

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

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 1 year of inpatient experience preferred
• Previous oncology experience preferred
• Acute Care preferred

Position Details

• Job Type: Full-Time (1.0FTE)
• Shift: Nights 
• Unit/Department: Center for Advanced Care 
• CBA Code: Non-Union