Advanced Practice Provider (APRN/PA) - BMT / Cell Therapy

Description The Cancer Center of South Florida is searching for an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to work at Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute with the outpatient BMT/Cell Therapy team.

• The APP will function as an independent healthcare provider who, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary health team, is responsible for providing comprehensive care to patients undergoing bone marrow transplant (BMT) and cellular therapy.
• The APP demonstrates a high degree of clinical expertise in caring for patients with hematologic malignancies and other disorders requiring hematopoietic stem cell transplant, immune effector cell therapy, and related supportive care.
• The APP is responsible for assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management, education, and care coordination for patients with complex acute and chronic health needs across the transplant and cellular therapy continuum.
• The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical clinical knowledge, communication and interdisciplinary collaboration, professionalism, and systems-based practice.
• The APP works with transplant/cell therapy physicians, nurses, pharmacists, care coordinators, and other multidisciplinary team members to assure safe, effective, quality patient care and to promote educational and research missions.
• This APP is dedicated to assisting patients and their families as they navigate bone marrow transplant and cellular therapies.
• The APP is trained to manage the complex physical and psychosocial needs of immunocompromised patients before, during, and after transplant or cellular therapy.
• This APP will work closely with interdisciplinary teams to support treatment readiness, toxicity monitoring/management, infection prevention, and longitudinal follow-up.
• The APP may also participate in patient education, program development, quality initiatives, and research activities related to transplant and cellular therapy.
• The APP may provide care in a variety of medical settings including outpatient cellular-immunotherapy transplant unit, inpatient transplant unit, and outpatient BMT/cell therapy clinics.

Core essential responsibilities

· Conduct comprehensive or episodic health history and physical assessment of patients undergoing bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy with acute, chronic, and/or potential health problems. · Establish medical diagnoses and treatment plans in collaboration with the physician and interdisciplinary transplant/cellular therapy team. · Evaluate and monitor patients before, during, and after transplant or cellular therapy for treatment-related toxicities, infectious complications, cytopenias, transfusion needs, supportive care needs, and other urgent or complex clinical issues. · Manage general medical conditions and transplant/cellular therapy-related complications based on knowledge of indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions, and adverse reactions of pharmacologic agents and other relevant treatment modalities. · Maintain accurate, complete, concise, and timely documentation in the electronic medical record according to group practice and program standards. · Participate in BMT/cellular therapy-specific clinical quality, accreditation, and research projects. · Write specific orders within the limits of the practice agreement/scope of practice, including supportive care, transfusion-related care, and other treatment-related interventions. · Educate patients and families on treatment plans, transplant/cellular therapy processes, infection precautions, symptom monitoring, and survivorship or long-term follow-up plans. · Participate in ongoing learning opportunities to maintain expertise in transplant and cellular therapy practice. · Participate in and accept on-call coverage assignments, including inpatient, outpatient, weekend, and holiday coverage as required by the service.