Nurse Practitioner; Radiation Oncology and Molec Rad

We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner who will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary health team and is responsible for providing comprehensive and age-appropriate care to both well and ill patients. Educates patients and families and intervenes in acute or chronic illness. Practices within the guidelines of the department and institution and in accordance with the Nurse Practitioner-Physician Written Agreement required and approved by the State of Maryland and the Nurse Practice Act of the State of Maryland.

Is granted Senior Staff privileges by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. These privileges are reviewed annually by the University and the Hospital.

• Provides comprehensive, age-appropriate, and episodic care to patients as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team.
• Coordinates scheduling of and conducts comprehensive and/or episodic health assessments of patients/families with real, potential, acute and/or chronic health problems
• Performs history and physical examination as it relates to chief complaint, including following guidelines of specific protocols.
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings in the history and physical.
• Identifies differential diagnosis.
• Assesses severity of illness and establishes plan for evaluation.
• Records and documents assessment data necessary to maintain, coordinate, and/or expedite required services.
• Orders appropriate laboratory studies, radiographic studies, and other tests specific to the diagnosis or protocol.
• Follows daily progress of patients, including history and physical exam, ordering, performing, and interpreting laboratory and radiological data and establishing and implementing a plan of care based on those interpretations and observations. Makes referrals to appropriate specialties.
• Ensures follow through to book required treatment plan after consultation. This may include gynecologic exams for brachytherapy procedures and preparing patients appropriately for other site-specific radiation appointments including simulation, radiologic studies, and radiation therapy.
• Follows long-term progress of patients including history and physical examination, orders and interprets re-staging tests, and assesses status.
• Provides outside referring physicians with reports on patients' status by ordering, interpreting, collecting, and communicating results and recommendations to the physician. Consults with referring physicians regarding questions specific to the treatment course and/or its complications, suggesting treatment plans and making appropriate referrals for further follow up.
• Observes for evidence of acute and long-term effects of radiation and provides accurate and timely management for such side effects.
• Provides education to patient and family members regarding diagnosis, complications, treatment, and medications in order to provide them with continuous information.
• Conducts telehealth visits as appropriate for follow-up care, symptom management, or triage, ensuring timely communication and documentation in the EMR.
• Provides education to community providers and to patient support groups in the area.

• Performs, when applicable within the assigned service line, the following functions, including but not limited to routine laboratory procedures such as cultures, smears, venipunctures, electrocardiograms and assist in pre-operative and post-operative evaluation of patients
• Performs independent assessments and follow-up care for surgical patients
• Support in-office procedures, including flexible laryngoscopy and post-operative drain management
• Coordinate perioperative planning and post-surgical symptom management
• Collaborate with attending surgeons on new patient evaluations, particularly those referred for multidisciplinary care
• Help triage new referrals and streamline the patient intake process to enhance efficiency across the service line

• Maintains CPR certification.
• Maintains airway, breathing, circulation
• Starts and provides basic CPR
• Orders and administers anti-anaphylactic and supportive medications

• Prescribes medications, including oral, parenteral, intramuscular, or subcutaneous drugs. Prescribes Schedule 2, 2N, 3, 3N, 4, 5 drugs under the guidelines of the Maryland Nurse Practice Act and the DEA.

• Will work with specific protocols to ensure that all protocol-driven tests, examinations, and procedures are ordered, performed, and evaluated and data is retrieved, entered on appropriate forms.
• Coordinates scheduling, orders appropriate tests, evaluates results, records data, performs patient evaluations, and participates in care of patients on specific protocols regarding specific disease entities and treatment. Works in collaboration with the Principal Investigators of specific protocols to ensure the completeness of protocol requirements.
• Will manage collection and entry of patient information into clinical database in support of outcomes research.

• Provides preceptorship to RN, Masters preparing NP, and PA students…