Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
Summary: This position will be split between PPMC and Radnor locations
- Objective: Promote to delivery of high quality, evidenced based, efficient, and safe patient care in a fiscally feasible and transparent manner to a high volume patient population with a variety of acute and chronic supportive care needs. Facilitate the ability for individual providers and site team to meet a variety of productivity and quality metrics.
- The APP will participate in the clinical management of patients currently receiving or having had received radiotherapy for diagnoses including breast, genitourinary, lung, gynecologic and gastrointestinal malignancies as well as those with palliative needs. This includes on treatment evaluation and supportive care as well as ongoing follow-up/survivorship care and management of treatment related toxicities.
Accountabilities:
- Independently conducted visits:
- Post-radiotherapy visits
- Follow up/survivorship visits
- Ad hoc on treatment assessments for symptom management
- Patient population to include those treated for breast, lung, prostate cancer, gastrointestinal cancer patients as well as those treated palliative for brain or bone metastasis.
- Inpatient consultations at PPMC location
- Attendance at appropriate conferences (department, health system) as appropriate. May include:
- Chart rounds
- Tumor boards
- Departmental conferences: grand rounds, M & M
- APP conferences in health system as appropriate
- Leadership/participation of clinical initiatives including process improvement projects and development and implementation of supportive care standards, best clinical practices
- Departmental or health system committee participation recommended after one year of employment.
- AOCNP certification strongly encourage after one year of employment, if applicable
Responsibilities:
- Provides direct clinical care for patient population according to established protocols and utilizes evidence based practice standards in collaboration with team.
- Maintains accurate and confidential medical records. Documents all medical evaluations, diagnoses, procedures, treatments, outcomes, education, referrals, and consultations consistent with organizational standards in the electronic health record (EHR).
- Identifies self properly to the patient and family, and clarifies the role of the nurse practitioner if necessary.
- The CRNP/PA should function within their scope and refer to the collaborating physician when outside of scope, and/or directed by the collaborating physician or when requested by the patient and/or family.
- Performs interventions specific to assigned patient population and collaborative agreement.
- Participates in the performance improvement processes to meet quality of care and service standards.
- Demonstrates awareness of professional responsibility as role model to peers and members of the health care team.
- Perform approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures based upon patient’s clinical status.
- Addresses patient and family concerns and creates a therapeutic relationship to provide support.
- Provide patient education, counseling and instruction regarding patient diagnosis, medical treatments, medications, and preventative care.
- Participate in and support accreditation, compliance and regulatory activities of the organization.
- Precept CRNP/PA students and other health care learners.
- Identifies patient/family needs for community resources and refers appropriately.
Credentials:
- BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider as per the American Heart Association (For providers in the ambulatory setting) required.
- Certified Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant (Required)
- PA and/or NJ CRNP licensure (CRNP/PA) required.
- PA and/or NJ Prescriptive Authority required.
- PA and/or NJ RN licensure (RN) required.
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- Master or Doctorate of Science or Health Sciences (Required)
- New to practice or < 2.5 years.
- The CRNP/PA must be reviewed by the Credentials Committee and approved by the Medical Board.
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
Live Your Life's Work
We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.
