APP Role:

Performs physical examinations and treats common complications of cancer treatment, counsels patients and families and monitors patient progress. Works in collaboration with other health care team members, consulting and referring as appropriate, but retains responsibility for ongoing clinical management of the patient.

Responsibilities include:

• Ensure patient information, visit history, refer outs, lab follow-up, phone calls, and consults are carefully and completely documented in the electronic medical record.
• Conducts in-depth interviews with patients and/or family, constructs comprehensive medical histories, performs initial and periodic physical examinations and explores patient's interpretation of health needs. Identifies and treats patients' diseases.
• Directly performs or orders appropriate diagnostic studies and interprets finished results.
• Develops and implements long and short range treatment plans.
• Performs procedures such as bone marrow biopsy.
• Instructs and counsels patients and families regarding preventive care, medical problems, psychological problems, and use of prescribed treatments and drugs.
• Writes orders to increase, decrease or change medication, subject to checking and counter-signing by physician.
• Identifies and records pertinent progress of patients, updating and summarizing charts, changing orders when appropriate and notifying the responsible physician of changes in the patient's condition.
• Will need hospital privileges to assist with call. 

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Nursing
• Possession of current certificate of completion from a Nurse Practitioner program
• Current and valid California State RN and Nurse Practitioner licenses
• Oncology experience preferred but not required
• National Certification required upon employment
• Spanish speaking preferred