Advanced Practice Provider, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant - Oncology

Job Description

Join University of Chicago Medicine as an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) for our Inpatient Hematology/Oncology Consult Position.  

 

Eligible for a Sign-On Bonus up to $10,000

Eligible for Relocation Assistance 

 

The Advanced Practice Provider will be responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management and will manage a caseload of patients by exercising autonomous decision making in the assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The APP will provide healthcare and patient services that may include educational, research, and clinical nursing specialist support, as well as complete administrative activities under the direction and supervision of the Director/leadership. The APP has acquired the knowledge, skills, and judgment necessary to assist the physician through organized instruction and supervised practice.

 

The Inpatient Hematology/Oncology Consult APP will cover Monday-Friday 8-hour day shifts (8-4:30pm). The APP will start each shift by reviewing the Hospitalists’ list of hematology/oncology consults with the hematology/oncology fellow and determine if any consults are more appropriate for a fellow to see for learning opportunities. Thereafter, the APP will see both new and follow-up consults, with the opportunity to staff more complex consults with the inpatient Chemotherapy Service attending. The APP will attend the Hospitalists’ multidisciplinary rounds to collaborate on dispo planning in light of any hematology/oncology-specific needs of the patients. The consult APP will staff and bill for visits independently. The consult APP will also be trained to perform bone marrow biopsies and lumbar punctures in case either procedure is needed in the work-up of the inpatient consults. If patients need to be transferred to another service, the consult APP will help facilitate the transfer by working directly with the other inpatient services. The consult APP will also collaborate with patients’ outpatient primary oncologists and ensure any oncology-specific needs are well-managed.

 

*There is an opportunity to transition to 4 10-hour days with some Saturdays in the future if additional APPs are hired to support consults.

 

Advantages of this position include a high level of autonomy in a specialized setting within an academic medical center, the opportunity to manage a broad variety of hematology/oncology patients and oncologic complications, and a collaborative work environment partnering with a fellow, an attending, and other inpatient APPs.

 

 

Advanced Practice Provider Essential Job Functions

• Taking patient history, conducting examinations, diagnosing illness
• Pre and post-operative patient evaluation and ordering and interpreting laboratory tests
• Ability to exercise autonomy in medical decision-making, provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services

 Nurse Practitioner Education and Experience Requirements:

• Master's of Science in Nursing 
• Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois RN and APN licensure/registration 
• Must be certified as a Nurse Practitioner by the ANCC or AANP
• Must have or be able to qualify for Illinois and DEA prescribing numbers
• At least 1 year of inpatient experience preferred
• Previous oncology experience preferred
• Acute Care preferred

Physician Assistant Education and Experience Requirements:

• Completion of an accredited (physician assistant) educational program 
• Certification in ACLS and by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois licensure/registration
• At least 1 year of inpatient experience preferred
• Previous oncology experience preferred

Position Details 

• Job Type/FTE: Full-Time (1.0)
• Shift: Days, 8am-4:30pm
• Unit/Department: Inpatient Hem/Onc Consults 
• CBA Code: Non-Union

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters.