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

UChicago Medicine•Chicago, IL

16d•$130,900 - $167,200•Onsite

About The Position

The University of Chicago Medicine is hiring an Advanced Practice Provider for its Inpatient Hematology/Oncology Night Advanced Practice Provider Team. This is a 100% onsite opportunity for someone based in the greater Chicagoland area. The role provides comprehensive direct patient care management for critically ill patients in a fast-paced academic medical center. The night-shift APP covers the Inpatient Leukemia, Inpatient Cellular Therapy, and Inpatient Chemotherapy services. After orientation on both days and nights, the APP works independently and autonomously, managing established inpatients and admitting patients appropriate for these services. The APP is trained to manage oncologic emergencies, including neutropenic fever, tumor lysis syndrome, and cytokine release syndrome. A Hematology/Oncology Fellow and Attending are available as resources but are not in house at night; optimal night staffing is two to three APPs covering all three services. The APP manages a patient caseload and exercises autonomous decision-making in assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The scope of practice also includes family support, teaching, staff education, consultation, and research.

Requirements

For nurse practitioners: an advanced degree from an accredited school or college of nursing, or equivalent if licensed before July 1, 2001.
For nurse practitioners: ability to obtain an Illinois advanced practice nurse (APN) license by the start date.
For nurse practitioners: current Registered Nurse license.
For nurse practitioners: AANC certification as an ACNP and/or ANP-BC.
For nurse practitioners: ACLS certification.
For physician assistants: completion of an accredited physician assistant educational program.
For physician assistants: ACLS certification and NCCPA certification.
For physician assistants: current Illinois licensure/registration or eligibility for it.
Ability to work onsite and be based in the greater Chicagoland area.

Nice To Haves

At least one year of inpatient experience.
Previous oncology experience.
Acute care experience.

Responsibilities

Differentiate normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
Assess patient and family adaptation, coping skills, and need for crisis or other intervention.
Accurately interpret diagnostic tests.
Analyze multiple sources of data to make clinical judgments and determine the effectiveness of a plan of care.
Develop problem lists with associated differential diagnoses.
Identify patient and family educational needs and assist with teaching.
Incorporate assessment findings into a plan to direct patient care.
Formulate plans of care in collaboration with patients, families, physicians, nursing staff, and other healthcare team members, including health maintenance, discharge, and follow-up care.
Plan and implement appropriate pharmacological therapies.
Perform routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques accurately and appropriately according to established protocols and standardized APP procedures.
Initiate referrals based on patient and family needs.
Accurately present and document the database, impression, and plan of care.
Promote and use appropriate patient-care protocols addressing the physical, psychosocial, and developmental needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
Maintain formal and informal systems for information sharing, planning, and problem-solving with unit staff, other APPs, medical staff, and other nursing and hospital personnel.
Manage established inpatients on the Inpatient Leukemia, Inpatient Cellular Therapy, and Inpatient Chemotherapy services during night shifts.
Admit patients appropriate for the covered services.
Manage oncologic emergencies, including neutropenic fever, tumor lysis syndrome, and cytokine release syndrome.
Provide family support, teaching, staff education, consultation, and research.