Hospitalist Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Our nationally respected Cancer Center in the Atlanta Metro area is hiring an Advance Practice Hospital Medicine Provider (NP/PA-C Hospitalist) to join our team! The area of focus will be Hospital Medicine, Inpatient, Acute and Chronic Care.

This position is relocation allowance and sign-on bonus eligible!

Schedule: 3x12s; 7a-7p, 12-hour shifts with some weekends

Position overview: The Hospital Medicine Nurse Practitioner is a provider working under the supervision of a physician in the inpatient setting to manage acute and chronic medical conditions. Their role focuses on providing comprehensive patient care, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring continuity of care from admission to discharge.

Duties and responsibilities:

Provides appropriate patient care for patients with hematologic and oncologic malignancies to include recording patient medical history and physical assessment, developing therapeutic care plan, ordering diagnostic tests, interpreting test results, discharge planning and providing accurate medical record documentation.

Diagnoses and manage acute and chronic illnesses in hospitalized patients

Develop and implement treatment plans, including prescribing medications and ordering therapies

Performs or assists in routine laboratory, screening, therapeutic, diagnostic or patient care procedures

Educate patients in areas of procedures, pharmacology, self-management of side effects and available community resources

Provides symptom management for treatment related toxicities

Facilitates communication regarding goals of care including end of life decision making

Communicates with attending physician regarding plan of care and involves physician in clinical decision making of any issues that are outside the practitioners knowledge base or scope of practice

Collaborates and effectively communicates with referring physicians/clinicians and stakeholders

Demonstrates professional commitment through mandatory attendance at continuing education programs, independent reading, and other professional activities

Certifications and required experience: Board certification; MSN or Masters in PA-C studies; Experience in Hospital Medicine and oncology preferred

Full benefits: 401(k) Savings & Retirement, Life & Disability Insurance, Health Spending & Voluntary benefits, Empowered Time Off & Employee Assistance Programs, 529 College Savings Plan, College Benefits & Tuition Reimbursement, Parental Leave, Adoption, Childcare and Elderly care services, our staff receives 21 Personal Time Off Days and 7 Holidays off each year!