Physician Assistant​/Oncology​/California​/Locum Tenens​/PhysicianAssistant​/Nurse Practitio

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life‑threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix.

Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission:
To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

We are seeking a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner for Surgical Oncology in Duarte, CA. You will function as part of a care team who, working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary health team, will be responsible for providing comprehensive patient care. You will provide independent and collaborative medical management to a defined patient population, according to standardized procedures and in collaboration with a physician supervisor.

• Provide primary, secondary, and in some cases, tertiary care within scope of practice, licensure, and organizational policies.
• Services provided include, but are not limited to, taking histories, conducting physical examinations, ordering, performing, and interpreting appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests and therapies and furnishing drugs and devices in a cost‑efficient manner for specific conditions.
• Perform history and physical assessments of patients that are accurate, concise, relevant, and appropriate.
• Document the consultation and new patient note.
• Perform routine procedures, pertinent to the practice and as granted through the privilege process.
• During simple follow‑up cases, you may independently manage patients in follow‑up including ordering follow‑up imaging, providing medical care, and support to the patient including ordering pharmacological agents.
• Interpret imaging and communicate with attending physician regarding interval patient change.
• Prescribe and counsel patients on narcotic use safety.
• Demonstrate pharmacologic knowledge including indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions, and adverse effects of pharmacologic agents.
• Review treatment and therapy plans with patients and appropriate family members.
• Practice clinical care informed by evidence‑based literature.
• Instruct and counsel patients in matters related to health care management including diet, medication and physical and mental health needs and refer to the appropriate specialists when appropriate.

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program with a master’s degree as a Physician Assistant.
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program with a master’s degree as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Oncology experience preferred.
• First Assist experience preferred.
• Current California Physician Assistant License.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification, required.
• Current American Heart Association ACLS certification, required.
• Must have a current DEA.
• $119,000 to $213,000

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City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.