Advanced Practice Provider

OneOncology•Hickory, NC

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About The Position

Carolina Oncology Specialists provides community-based oncology and hematology care, including chemotherapy treatments, diagnosis, treatment, and management of blood disorders. The Advanced Practice Provider delivers compassionate, professional patient care and supports outpatient clinic operations, infusion care, inpatient coverage, and clinical trial activities. The role works with physicians, nursing staff, and ancillary departments to support efficient patient flow and comprehensive care. The position includes evaluating patients, documenting encounters, placing and managing orders, educating patients, and ensuring accurate coding and charges. It also involves managing treatment-room charts and appointments, assisting nursing staff with infusion issues and triage, and providing inpatient coverage at Atrium and Novant facilities on a rotating basis. The provider takes rotating after-hours call from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., maintains required professional licenses and continuing education, and complies with applicable clinical, safety, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

Maintain applicable professional licensure, including the relevant NC Medical Board, NCCPA, AANP, NCBON, DEA, CVMC, and FRMC credentials as applicable to the provider.
Prescribe medication in accordance with NC Medical Board and DEA licensure guidelines.
Be able to work independently, as part of a team, and under direct supervision.
Demonstrate effective communication and respectful collaboration with providers, coworkers, and customers.
Demonstrate acceptable job knowledge, sound judgment, problem-solving ability, organization, and the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
Accurately and effectively produce quality work with minimal supervision and accept responsibility for results.
Adhere to applicable state, federal, professional, department, safety, infection-control, and HIPAA requirements.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care in a compassionate and professional manner.
Work up patients on the appropriate provider schedule by obtaining preliminary information and patient history, performing physical examinations, helping formulate care plans, entering orders into the EMR, reviewing and signing results, notifying appropriate departments, and educating patients.
Ensure documentation supports charges rendered, coding is accurate, encounter dictations are completed within 48 hours, and charges are submitted daily.
Manage the treatment room, including window charts, work-in appointments, transfusion-support evaluations, EMR chart sign-off, incoming charts, and review of appropriate results.
Assist nursing staff with infusion issues, including infusion reactions, nurse questions, and triage phone calls.
Manage daily assignments in the EMR, help providers complete assignments, and assist other mid-level providers with caseloads as needed.
Communicate with ancillary office areas, including laboratory and nursing, when patient flow needs attention to improve efficiency and minimize wait times.
Provide inpatient coverage at Atrium and Novant facilities on a mid-level rotation, including evaluating, documenting, and ordering for patients on rounds and consults.
Check for new inpatient consults and coordinate with physicians about whether they want assistance initiating them.
Ensure patients of physicians who are off or on vacation are covered by the on-call physician.
Assist with inpatient care, provider documentation, charges, and recording critical information in the EMR.
Meet clinical trial department requirements as a sub-investigator.
Prescribe medication within NC Medical Board and DEA licensure guidelines and prescribe chemotherapy under the supervision of an attending or backup physician.
Take after-hours calls from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. on a rotating schedule, addressing admissions and consults and ensuring calls are documented.
Maintain competence with clinical and office information systems and follow quality-control, infection-control, equipment, workplace-safety, HIPAA, and other applicable requirements.
Maintain professional workplace conduct and facilities, collaborate respectfully, and work independently, as part of a team, and under direct supervision.
Meet productivity standards, use time efficiently, minimize overtime, and follow procedures for overtime requests.
Participate in continuing education and maintain applicable professional licenses.
Participate in process-improvement programs, adhere to the department budget, and demonstrate sound judgment, problem-solving, organization, and quality work.
Meet deadlines and behavioral and attendance standards, demonstrate initiative and adaptability, and perform other duties as requested by management or physicians.