What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Practice Provider, Inpatient Hematology/Oncology position at UChicago Medicine?
Join the University of Chicago Medicine as an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) for our Inpatient Hematology/Oncology Night APP Team.
The Advanced Practice Provider will be responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management and will manage a caseload of 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 nursing specialist support, as well as complete administrative activities under the direction and supervision of the Director/leadership. The APP has acquired the knowledge, skills, and judgment necessary to assist the physician through organized instruction and supervised practice.
This is a night shift position from 7pm to 7:30am. The night APPs will cover three inpatient APP 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 answering pages on established inpatients and admitting patients appropriate for the service. 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 will be 2 APPs covering all three services.
Advantages of this position include a high level of autonomy in a specialized setting within an academic medical center, a higher hourly rate for night shift hours worked, and self-scheduling in tandem with the other night APPs.
Advanced Practice Provider Essential Job Functions
- Taking patient history, conducting examinations, diagnosing illness
- Pre and post-operative patient evaluation and ordering and interpreting laboratory tests
- Ability to exercise autonomy in medical decision-making, provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services
Nurse Practitioner Education and Experience Requirements:
- Master's of Science in Nursing
- Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois RN and APN licensure/registration
- Must be certified as a Nurse Practitioner by the ANCC or AANP
- Must have or be able to qualify for Illinois and DEA prescribing numbers
- At least 1 year of inpatient experience preferred
- Previous oncology experience preferred
- Acute Care preferred
Physician Assistant Education and Experience Requirements:
- Completion of an accredited (physician assistant) educational program
- 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
- At least 1 year of inpatient experience preferred
- Previous oncology experience preferred
Position Details
- Job Type/FTE: Full-Time (1.0)
- Shift: Nights, 7pm-7:30am, Every 3rd Weekend
- Unit/Department: Inpatient Leukemia
- CBA Code: Non-Union
