Summary

Provides advanced patient care to patients in a clinical setting in an area of specialization under the direction of a physician.

Job Duties

• See gynecologic oncology patients, including, but not limited to:
  • Gynecologic cancer patients on chemotherapy
  • Post-operative patients
  • Survivorship patients
• Provide chemotherapy teaching for gynecologic cancer regimens
• Patient education and counseling, including consents, survivorship, healthy lifestyle, and pre-operative counseling
• Cancer and chemotherapy symptom management
• Order and interpret laboratory, radiologic, and diagnostic studies
• Prescribing medications
• Answering EPIC MyChart patient messages
• Be available to answer questions from the infusion center (patient reactions, medication questions, etc)
• Participate in research and clinical trials.
• Track gynecologic cancer patients on chemotherapy
• Ensure pre-operative patients who need pre-operative clearance is obtained and if needed, care coordination with other services and/or physicians that may be outside the BCM network
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education Required:

• Physician Assistant Candidates: Master’s degree in physician assistant studies. Bachelor’s degree in physician assistant studies accepted based on terminal degree requirements at time of graduation.
• Nurse Practitioner Candidates: Master’s degree in nursing.

Certification/Licenses/Registration:

• Physician Assistant Candidates: Current license as a Physician Assistant by the State of Texas Physician Assistant Board.
• Nurse Practitioner Candidates: Current license as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the State of Texas Board of Nursing. Current Texas Licensure as an Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN-NP).

Experience Required: None required.

Specialty certification as required by department.

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.