Job Description

Job Purpose:

The Nurse Practitioner provides primary care in collaborative joint practice with the physicians to oncology patients, to improve outcomes for patients with cancer and their families.

Essential Functions:

· Establishes goals and objects for area in congruence with center’s goals and objectives.

· Ensures that development and intradepartmental policies, procedures, and standards of care are maintained.

· Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care for individual patients.

· Care for patients in all phases of diagnosis and treatment.

· Initiates and documents appropriate interventions; prescribes drug therapies per protocol/physician consultation.

· Assists physicians and performs procedures as needed; conducts patient assessments and provides physician with information prior to seeing the patient.

· Collaborate closely with physicians and others involved with patient treatment to provide comprehensive individualized care during treatment journey.

· Provide expert nursing care to maximize health, enhance quality of life, and relieve suffering.

· Assesses patient / family needs and provides education.

· Promotes wellness and recommends community resources to meet patient and family needs.

· Actively assist and support patients throughout all aspects of their care and closely monitor patients for changes in health status.

· Regular attendance and punctuality.

· Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

· Ensures that all processing and reporting deadlines are consistently achieved.

· Perform any other functions as required by management.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

· Ability to work a flexible schedule (including overtime, and weekends, as necessary.

· Minimum of Masters of Science in Nursing

· Current RN license in Florida

· Board certification as Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission (ANCC) on Accreditation, or the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

· Have and maintained an advanced program of study in a specialty area in an accredited nursing program and has taken and passed a national certification examination in the same area and has been granted recognition by the board to practice as an APRN.

· Eligible for hospital privileges.

Prescriptive Authority Requirements:

· Recognition as an advanced practitioner of nursing in Florida

· Documentation of completion of a minimum of two semester credit hours, three quarter credit hours, or

· Documentation of completion of 400 hours of advanced nursing practice in recognized areas of specialty within the past two years.

· Compliance with the standards of nursing practice, the rules and regulations, and the act.

· A written plan of practice and collaboration.

Required Competencies:

Excellent judgment, dependability, conscientious performance. Detail oriented. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. Caring and empathic. High ethical standards. Mechanical ability and manual dexterity for operating complicated equipment.

Job Type: Full-time

· Benefits:

· 401(k)

· 401(k) matching

· Dental insurance

· Employee assistance program

· Flexible spending account

· Health insurance

· Life insurance

· Paid time off

· Tuition reimbursement

· Vision insurance

· Medical Specialty:

Experience:

• Nurse practitioner: 3+ years (Preferred)
• Oncology experience: 2+ years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RN License (Required)
• Board Certified Nurse Practitioner (Required)

Work Location: Onsite

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