Nurse Practitioner (Oncology)

Johns Hopkins University•Baltimore, MD

6d•$112,572 - $152,900•Onsite

About The Position

Provides comprehensive, evidence-based care to adult patients with primary and metastatic breast and gynecologic malignancies in an outpatient women’s malignancy clinic. The Nurse Practitioner works collaboratively with breast oncologists and a multidisciplinary team, including surgeons and radiation oncologists, to evaluate patients across the continuum of care; develop and implement treatment plans; manage complex treatment-related toxicities; order and interpret diagnostic studies; prescribe medications; and coordinate supportive care services. The role serves as a primary clinical resource for patients and families, supporting continuity of care through active management of symptoms, survivorship needs, and disease progression, while participating in clinical research, quality improvement initiatives, and patient education. It requires advanced clinical decision-making, excellent communication, and expertise in oncologic complications related to breast and gynecologic tumors and their treatments. The Nurse Practitioner provides comprehensive and episodic patient care, performs assessments and physical examinations, documents findings, orders and interprets studies, makes referrals, monitors long-term progress and treatment effects, communicates with referring physicians, and educates patients and families. In multidisciplinary clinic, the Nurse Practitioner completes histories and physicals and collaborates with the team on treatment planning. The role includes routine laboratory procedures and opportunities to learn advanced procedures within the scope of practice, such as skin biopsy, paracentesis, accessing an Ommaya reservoir, and administering chemotherapy. The Nurse Practitioner also coordinates protocol-related research activities in collaboration with Principal Investigators and research team members, and provides preceptorship and supervision for nursing, NP, and PA students while sharing clinical expertise with colleagues.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Nursing.
Registered Nurse license.
Certification as a Nurse Practitioner.
NP licensure in Maryland or the state where practicing.
Current CPR certification.
Maintain current licensure and certification throughout employment.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive, age-appropriate and episodic care to patients as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
Coordinate and conduct comprehensive or episodic health assessments of patients and families with actual, potential, acute, or chronic health problems.
Perform histories and physical examinations related to patients’ chief complaints.
Record and document assessment data to maintain, coordinate, or expedite required services.
Order appropriate laboratory, radiographic, and other diagnostic tests.
Make referrals to appropriate specialties.
Follow patients’ long-term progress, conduct examinations, order and interpret restaging tests, and assess patient status.
Communicate patient status, results, and recommendations to referring physicians; consult with them about treatment courses and complications and suggest treatment plans and follow-up referrals.
Monitor for long-term effects of treatment.
Educate patients and family members about diagnoses, complications, treatment, and medications.
Perform comprehensive histories and physical examinations in multidisciplinary clinic and collaborate with the team to establish and implement treatment plans.
Perform routine laboratory procedures, including cultures, smears, venipuncture, and electrocardiograms.
Learn and perform advanced procedures within the scope of practice, such as skin biopsy, paracentesis, accessing an Ommaya reservoir, administering chemotherapy, and other necessary procedures.
Ensure protocol-driven tests, examinations, and procedures are ordered, performed, and evaluated, and that research data are retrieved and entered on appropriate forms.
Coordinate scheduling, order tests, evaluate results, record data, perform patient evaluations, and participate in care for patients enrolled in specific research protocols.
Collaborate with Principal Investigators and research team members to ensure protocol requirements are complete.
Precept RN, master's-preparing NP, and PA students in collaboration with and under the direction of their university professors.
Supervise and evaluate student-patient interactions in an academic setting and assume responsibility for patient care provided by students.
Develop expertise in specific areas and share knowledge with colleagues as a consultant in patient-care planning.