Oncology Advanced Practice Provider

Kettering Health is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join their oncology health services team in Wilmington. This full-time role involves collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive patient care, utilizing evidence-based practice and current clinical knowledge. The APP will be responsible for clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for the patient population, while maintaining professionalism and engaging in ongoing professional development.

Practice Info

• Physician Office in Wilmington

• Works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team

Responsibilities

• Synthesizes and utilizes evidence-based practice, research, and current clinical knowledge

• Performs history taking, clinical assessment, physical examination, order entry, interpretation of diagnostic studies, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for the given population

• Performs credentialed procedures in accordance with institutional and state guidelines and personal competency standards

• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives

• Assesses complex acute, critical, and chronically ill-patients and obtains relevant comprehensive and problem-focused health histories

• Develops and reformulates differential diagnoses by priority, identifies co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function and ensure patient safety

• Participates in daily team transition huddles to facilitate effective coordinated patient care

• Utilizes evidence-based practice, along with prescribing appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities; implements treatment and referral orders; interprets and evaluates appropriate lab and diagnostic testing and reports to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members

Shift & Schedule

• Full-Time

• First Shift

• May have On Call duties and/or weekend responsibilities as assigned by practice/department

Requirements

• APRN: Master's degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required

• PA: Master's degree required with the appropriate National Certification

• APRN - National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA (APRN certification to match scope of practice) required

• PA - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) required

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

• Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN required

• Current Ohio License 50RX - License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority required

• Maintain collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medial Board/Ohio Board of Nursing, including yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations

• Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public

• Must have awareness of patient confidentiality and be able to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction