Responsibilities:

The advanced practice provider (Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant) is responsible and accountable for the application of nursing process, supervision of clinical practice and research involvement, consult of services enter and intradepartmental liaison, education, leadership, and patient care management across the health care continuum. The APP will be to provide care to breast surgical oncology patients, including breast abnormalities, high-risk surveillance and long-term follow-up oncology patients the role will be responsible for collaborative and independent clinical practice.

Assessment & Management

• Will be able to see patients and new cancers collaboratively with the surgeons.
• The APP will provide care to breast surgical oncology patients including breast abnormalities, high-risk surveillance, dense breast, and survivorship and long-term survivorship follow-up for breast oncology patients.
• Will provide end of treatment summaries when patient is complete treatment.
• Performs complete history & physicals and documents in the medical record
• Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• The APP will be able to perform, skin punch biopsy, bedside I&D, aspiration of seromas and breast cysts, and JP drain removal.
• Assesses the patient's preoperatively and postoperatively, assess for postop infection, recurrence of cancer.

Diagnosis

• Collaborates with breast surgeons and interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses.
• Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
• Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions

Formulates Plan of Care

• Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
• Implements and modifies plan of care.
• Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
• May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.

Documentation

• Documents will include progress notes, history and physicals and end of treatment summary
• Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
• Will manage peer to peer authorization and reviews for breast imaging that has been ordered by the surgeons and or the APP

Communication and Collaboration

• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
• Facilitates and communicates with patients, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.

Professional Practice

• Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including description. Description preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students.
• Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.
• Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty specific meetings.
• Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.

Master’s Degree

National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

BLS certification

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