Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.
The Department of Oncology seeks a Nurse Practitioner to provide outpatient clinical and research support to the Solid Tumor Malignancies Division. Works collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary health team and is responsible for providing comprehensive and age-appropriate care to both well and ill patients. Educates patients and families and intervenes in acute or chronic illness.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Provides comprehensive, age appropriate, and episodic care to patients as a member of the multi-disciplinary health care team.
- Obtains patient history; Performs patient care and physical examinations; Prepares patient summaries; Develops care/treatment plan; Attends out-patient clinics and assists with patient management.
- Provides information to staff regarding patient's care plan and condition.
- Consistently develops effective care/treatment plan for assigned patients according to established protocols and procedures.
- Regularly confers and consults with appropriate supervisory physician and/or other pertinent professionals before implementing treatment plan.
- Consistently structures all patient care plans to meet educational, physical and social needs appropriate to the patient's age.
- Consistently provides relevant patient care information to the appropriate staff member according to department guidelines.
- Follows daily progress of post-transplant patients in the immediate transplant phase, including history and physical exam, ordering, performing, and interpreting laboratory and radiological data and establishing and implementing a plan of care based on those interpretations and observations. Makes referrals to appropriate specialties.
- Follows long term progress of transplant patients including history and physical examination, orders and interprets re-staging tests, and assesses status.
- Observes for evidence of long-term effects of transplantation including infection, toxicity, engraftment, Graft-Versus-Host Disease.
- Provides education to patient and family members regarding diagnosis, complications, treatment and medications in order to provide them with continuous information.
Procedures
- Performs, but is not limited to the following advance procedures:
- Routine laboratory procedures such as cultures, smears, venipuncture, electrocardiograms.
- Performs advanced procedures such as bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, skin biopsy, lumbar puncture, and other procedures as necessary, including paracentesis and thoracentesis.
Provides Emergency Care
- Maintains CPR certification
- Maintains airway, breathing, circulation
- Starts and provides basic CPR
- Orders and administers anti-anaphylactic and supportive medications
Prescribes Drugs
- Prescribes medications, including oral, parenteral, intramuscular, or subcutaneous drugs.
- Prescribes Schedule 2, 2N, 3, 3N, 4,5 drugs under the guidelines of the Maryland Nurse Practice Act and the DEA.
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 of specific protocols to ensure the completeness of protocol requirements.
Educational Responsibility
- Develops expertise and expands knowledge in specific areas and shares that knowledge and expertise with colleagues as consultant in planning care for patients.
- Participates in rounds and meetings for consultation
- Supervises and evaluates student/patient interactions in an academic setting.
- Assumes responsibility for patient care as provided by the student.
- Performs oncology related procedures, such as bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, lumbar puncture, bone marrow harvest, and other procedures as called upon within the scope of practice.
Fiscal Responsibility
- Assumes fiscal responsibility with working knowledge of evidence based medical model.
- Effectively uses resources of the patient and the institution.
- Is aware of and adheres to specific capitations and limitations of the patient’s insurances while organizing and optimizing individualized care based on the disease state and restraints imposed by the HMO or insurances.
- Utilizes referrals to Home Health in order to provide optimum care in the appropriate setting.
- Has knowledge of and utilizes all available resources in the event that the patient’s resources are limited or unavailable in order to provide medical care and social well-being.
Refers
- Works in collaboration with the physician and realizes and is able to detect those deviations from normalcy or from established protocols which require consultation and/or referral to appropriate specialty areas including physicians, nutrition, psycho-social, and other resources.
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. Completion of the JHH credentialing process is required prior to start date.
- 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 / 8a - 5:30p
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM Onc Medical Oncology
Personnel area: School of Medicine
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
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